Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 5 Oktober 2006 / Time Line October 5, 2006
Version 3.54. Oktober 2006, 6. Oktober 2006
10/05/2006
Den amerikanske
præst, atompacifist og antikrigsmodstander Philip Berrigan
fødes, 1923.
10/05/2006
BOMBING OF CUBAN JETLINER 30 YEARS LATER
New Documents on Luis Posada Posted as Texas Court Weighs
Release from Custody
Colgate Toothpaste Disguised Plastic Explosives in 1976 Terrorist
Attack
Confessions, Kissinger Reports, and Overview of Posada Career
Posted
Washington, DC, October 5, 2006 - On the 30th anniversary of the
first and only mid-air bombing of a civilian airliner in the
Western Hemisphere, the National Security Archive today posted on
the Web new investigative records that further implicate Luis
Posada Carriles in that crime of international terrorism. Among the
documents posted is an annotated list of four volumes of
still-secret records on Posada's career with the CIA, his acts of
violence, and his suspected involvement in the bombing of Cubana
flight 455 on October 6, 1976, which took the lives of all 73
people on board, many of them teenagers.
The National Security Archive, which has sought the
declassification of the Posada files through the Freedom of
Information Act, today called on the U.S. government to release all
intelligence files on Posada. "Now is the time for the government
to come clean on Posada's covert past and his involvement in
international terrorism," said Peter Kornbluh, who directs the
Archive's Cuba Documentation Project. "His victims, the public, and
the courts have a right to know."
Posada has been in detention in El Paso, Texas, for illegal entry
into the United States, but a magistrate has recommended that he be
released this week because the Bush administration has not
certified that he is a terrorist.
Among the documents posted today are four sworn affidavits by
police officials in Trinidad and Tobago, who were the first to
interrogate the two Venezuelans--Hernan Ricardo Lozano and Freddy
Lugo--who were arrested for placing the bomb on flight 455. (Their
statements were turned over as evidence to a special investigative
commission in Barbados after the crime.) Information derived from
the interrogations suggested that the first call the bombers placed
after the attack was to the office of Luis Posada's security
company ICI, which employed Ricardo. Ricardo claimed to have been a
CIA agent (but later retracted that claim). He said that he had
been paid $16,000 to sabotage the plane and that Lugo was paid
$8,000.
The interrogations revealed that a tube of Colgate toothpaste had
been used to disguise plastic explosives that were set off with a
"pencil-type" detonator on a timer after Ricardo and Lugo got off
the plane during a stopover in Barbados. Ricardo "in his own
handwriting recorded the steps to be taken before a bomb was placed
in an aircraft and how a plastic bomb is detonated," deputy
commissioner of police Dennis Elliott Ramdwar testified in his
affidavit.
10/05/2006
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
Northrop Grumman Space and Mission Systems, Clearfield, Utah, is
being awarded a $24,261,000 firm-price-incentive-firm and
cost-plus-award fee contract modification. This award is to
definitize and finish funding an undefinitized contract action to
upgrade the Environmental Control System for the Minuteman III
Intercontinental ballistic missile system. This includes
production, deployment, and interim contractor support for launch
facilities and missile alert facilities at the Missile Wings. The
replacement system provides filtered, temperature and
humidity-controlled, circulating air to the electronic equipment as
well as to the missile combat crews located in the launch control
centers. At this time, $5,520,000 has been obligated. This work
will be complete October 2007. Headquarters Ogden Air Logistics
Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity
(F42610-98-C-0001/at this time, no mod # has been assigned).
 |
 |