Castro Slams U.S. Release Of Ex-CIA Agent

Letter Accuses Washington Of Freeing "Monster" Wanted In Cuba, Venezuela For Terrorism

(CBS/AP)  Fidel Castro denounced a U.S. court ruling allowing a jailed Cuban militant who was once a U.S. operative to post bond, accusing the American government of planning to free a "monster."

The charges came in a letter distributed by Foreign Ministry officials after U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone refused earlier Tuesday to reverse her decision to release Luis Posada Carriles.

"The answer is brutal," Castro wrote, referring to Cardone's initial ruling Friday in El Paso, Texas.

"The government of the United States and its most representative institutions have decided the liberation of the monster beforehand," said the statement, which bore Castro's signature.

The letter was the third in recent days signed by the ailing Cuban leader, who has not been seen in public for more than eight months.

Castro, 80, announced July 31 he had undergone emergency intestinal surgery and provisionally ceded his presidential functions to his 75-year-old brother, Raul, the defense minister.

Fidel Castro's medical condition and actual ailment remain a state secret, but he is widely believed to suffer from diverticular disease, a common affliction among the elderly that causes inflammation and bleeding in the colon.

Castro ends his statement with a call for the Cuban people to come out in force on May Day, the national holiday at the beginning of the month, to protest against Posada's release, reports CBS News Havana producer Portia Siegelbaum.

There is great expectation in the Cuba that Castro will make his first public appearance on May 1st, traditionally celebrated in Cuba with a massive march through Havana’s Revolution Square. Siegelbaum says the statement just released is bound to fuel that belief.

On Friday, Cardone ruled that Posada could be released on $250,000 bond. He is being held at the Otero County jail in New Mexico on charges he lied to immigration authorities in a bid to become a naturalized citizen.

Posada, a former CIA operative, is wanted in Cuba in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner that killed 73 people, a charge Posada denies. Castro repeatedly has accused the U.S. government of protecting Posada.

Castro's statement noted that, while Cuba and Venezuela accuse Posada of violent acts, the U.S. government has been holding the 79-year-old on a far less serious charge.

Castro also drew a connection between "the criminal and terrorist character of the accused" and the current U.S. government.

"The most genuine representative of the system of terror that has been imposed upon the world by the technological, economic and political superiority of the most potent power in the world is, without question, George W. Bush," it said.

In a related development, the government scheduled a Wednesday morning news conference in Havana with relatives of the airliner bombing victims.

Posada is a longtime foe of Castro, who publicly accused him at a 2000 presidential summit in Panama of plotting to assassinate him. Posada was soon afterward arrested in Panama and convicted on lesser charges before walking free in 2004, after being pardoned by Panama's president at the time, Mireya Moscoso.

Cuba accuses Posada of being the mastermind of the 1976 Cubana airliner bombing off the coast of Barbados. Among those killed were the young members of a Cuban fencing team returning home after a regional competition.

Venezuelan authorities want to extradite Posada for trial in that South American country, where he is a naturalized citizen. Posada was arrested in Venezuela a few days after the bombing and escaped from prison there in 1985 before a civilian trial in the case was completed.

Posada was detained in Florida in May 2005 for entering the United States illegally. A U.S. immigration judge ruled that he could not be sent to Cuba or Venezuela, citing fears that he would be tortured.

Posada trained with the CIA for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and served in the U.S. Army in the early 1960s. In 1965, he allegedly plotted to overthrow the Guatemalan government and blow up a Soviet or Cuban freighter in Mexico, according to the FBI. In 1967, he moved to Venezuela, eventually leading its counterintelligence agency, and was running his own security firm in the mid-1970s.

In 1973, Posada was investigated by the CIA for allegedly smuggling cocaine, but was cleared after he convinced interrogators he was "guilty of only having the wrong kind of friends," a declassified document says. The same document says the CIA "formally terminated" its relationship with him on Feb. 13, 1976.

[bluestardad]

You know I sort of agree with Castro!

[pwrslm]

For a man who put criminals on boats with the mentally retarded, and sent them across the sea on cheap boats to America, there is little this man can say that could impact any true humanitarian feelings in me.

Cuban prisons are full of political prisoners, people who have done nothing but voice opposition to the brutality of Castro's regime.

Of course he point at the US's actions. It takes the attention from the truth.

[gunnerv1]

Castro and his entire Communist Nation can just kiss my rosy red arse and of course lets not leave out Hugo or Kim-Il, bunch of jack off wankers.

So, are we trying to win a war against terrorism or not?

If we are, then why are we allowing a reported terrorist to roam free?

Is it because he's *our* terrorist?

Is he going to be the next Orlando Bosch?

pwrslm wrote:

"For a man who put criminals on boats with the mentally retarded..."

I didn't realize you were Cuban.

[antoniof123]

I just do not care about this story.

[drinuk]

The "WALL" of communism fell over two decades ago and yet the people of Cuba are still prisoners and hurting under the evil yoke of Castro. Now on his death bed he has the nerve to criticise American justice, after almost fifty years of holding his people hostage. The man and his regime are no different to the evil dictators of Eastern Europe, he lives in comfort and privledge whilst the rest starve with sealed lips. The sooner Cuba is free his crackpot rule the better. Another grotesque statue will then have to be pulled down.

[thehobman]

The Press Is A fountain Of Information For The
Enemy But We Have To Protect Them. I Think As Long
As They Are Over There They Should Protect Themselfs..They Have All The Ratings And Money.
They Never Have Any Good News On Anything Good
We Do, Only Everything Bad}}}
Because They Are Experts They Hide Behind Freedom Of The Press,,,They Have Killed Many Solders Because Of There Information They Let Out On Everything We Do,,,,If I Was In Charge I Would Tell Them Get Out..Or Go On The Otherside And See
How Long You Will Last...

Im Sick Of The Press All Doom And Gloom

[diamtool]

So they won't send him back to Cuba because they are afraid he will be tortured. That's ironic. The only place there is torture in Cuba is at Guantanamo and we are the torturers. Cuba has a long history of political dissedents being jailed (and released) but there has never been allegations of torture against the Cuban Govt.
This creepy mnonster probably blew up an airliner killing a bunch of innocents, but Bush likes his politics. So, maybe they will make him a US attorney and he can work for Gonzales.

[pwrslm]

The only place there is torture in Cuba is at Guantanamo and we are the torturers

Posted by diamtool

Tell that to the thousands of people arrested and jailed for "contempt of authority" and "enemy propoganda".

All the while, the terrorists that were trained to complain of human rights abuse (ie..torture and mistreatment) are get away with it. I find it repulsive that Americans actually think its true, that thier own kids in the Military would involve themselves in such a grand scale deception that we could condemn the entire government based on the lies of a hand full of men who would just as soon as kill an American for publicity as they would to sit down for a meal.

Oh generation of Vipers and Gossip Mongerors, you are what our founding fathers feared the most.

[pwrslm]

I didn't realize you were Cuban.
Posted by mcdazz

I didnt realize you were so small minded.

Fits your profile though, once I considered it.

Oh my!! Your torturing me....your inhumane, your postings give me mental angush, you are scum as well, just like you accuse your government and our military!!

So small minded, someday maybe you will grow up, but I doubt it.

[pwrslm]

From letter attributed to Fidel Castro
Posted by jh6379

About the only thing he got right was the part about superior.

America is superior to Castro's Cuba without any doubt. Thats why we have well over 1.5 million Cubano's living here.

pwrslm wrote:

"I didnt realize you were so small minded.

Fits your profile though, once I considered it.

Oh my!! Your torturing me....your inhumane, your postings give me mental angush, you are scum as well, just like you accuse your government and our military!!

So small minded, someday maybe you will grow up, but I doubt it."

lol - and I thought you had the market cornered on being small minded.

I see you still haven't stopped telling lies and spreading false information.

[pwrslm]

lol - and I thought you had the market cornered on being small minded.
I see you still haven't stopped telling lies and spreading false information.
Posted by mcdazz

Is that the best you can do?

Never mind, dont answer that.

Its pretty obvious already.

[extremophil]

Castro shouldn't worry so much about things. He ain't gonna be around much longer.

[gunnerv1]

mcdazz: how does my comment in anyway say that I'm coming out of some closet and while we are at it just what closet would it be. Come on buddy I'm calling you out (nice choice of words, don't you think)

[processor2]

to put it politely:

"Intercourse Castro"

...

[lars008-2009]

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[lars008-2009]

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[agnim]

"1) Castro is a dictator. It's obvious. There's torture there etc.
Posted by ttinsly at 02:51 PM : Apr 11, 2007"

Yes, there's torture in Cuba -- AT THE TERRORIST RUN CAMP AT GUANTANAMO BAY!

[gunnerv1]

Agnim: When did the Terrorist escape and start running GITMO?

[zootallures2]

The Latin American aircraft carrier.. The M-26-7 Cuba.

[pakaal]

For the folks all up in arms about Castro's announcement, maybe you're missing something: CIA-trained Posada is believed to have committed the terrorist act of blowing up a commercial jetliner, killing 73 people. Of course we're not going to allow him to be extradited, if we did, most likely they'd be able to prove his and the USA's involvement in that act of terrorism. But hey, it was OK to do that because we're the good guys, right?