If the charges go off as planned, a 14-foot hole will be blown in the ship's bottom. The plan calls for three small charges to be placed close to the midships centerline on the underwater hull. He had approached Ramon Escarda Rubio and another Cuban, frogmen acquainted with demolition gear, to place charges on the vessel. As of June 28, Mas Canosa had in his possession 125 pounds of pentolite (an explosive) which had been purchased at $3 per pound.
and place bombs in Communist instillations. had proposed to a demolition expert that he travel to Spain, Mexico and other Latin American countries. Now, courtesy some vintage CIA reports declassified yesterday by the National Security Archive, it's clear that Canosa did a lot more than lobby against Fidel Castro.Īccording to the papers, (which you can read here), he personally gave $5,000 to famed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles (who doesn't look too good himself in the new documents) to blow up Cuban and Soviet vessels off of Veracruz, Mexico. A few years ealier, he had led a crippling boycott of the Herald, inspiring the less tactful in Little Havana to set newspaper boxes on fire or to soak them in urine. And for good reason.Ĭanosa sued the crap out of the New Republic in 1994 for calling him a "mobster" and won $100,000 and an apology. Without any fear of being sued or hit with a massive boycott, we're going to say it right up front, in plain English: Jorge Mas Canosa sponsored terrorism.įor years, the press quaked in fear of criticizing the most powerful exile in America, the founder of the Cuban American National Foundation and a lobbyist with the ear of many a president.
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