Price: 12.50 euro
Size: 18x11cm./7×4.3inch.
Weight: 27gr./0.9oz.
Year: 1976
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Book made in Cuba, 1976, by Editorial de Ciencias Sociales, La Habana. From the book: Speech delivered by Commander In Chief Fidel Castro at the memorial meeting for the victims of the Cuban Airlines plane destroyed in flight on October 6, givin in Revolution Square, Havana, October 15, 1976.
Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 was a Cuban flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down on 6 October 1976 by a terrorist bomb attack. All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed after two time bombs went off and the plane crashed into the sea. The crash killed every member of the Cuban national fencing team.
Several CIA-linked anti-Castro Cuban exiles among them Rafael De Jesus Gutierrez, a Cuban intelligence officer of the Batista regime turned CIA spy after the Cuban revolution, were implicated by the evidence. Political complications quickly arose when Cuba accused the US government of being an accomplice to the attack.
CIA documents released in 2005 do indicate that the agency “had concrete advance intelligence, as early as June 1976, on plans by Cuban exile terrorist groups to bomb a Cubana airliner.” Former CIA operative and anti-Castro militant and terrorist Luis Posada Carriles denied involvement but provides many details of the incident in his book Caminos del Guerrero (Ways of the Warrior). The Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, of which Carriles was a founder, is widely seen as responsible for the bombing.
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