BYJEAN-GUY ALLARD —Special for Granma International—

WIM Dankbar, a Dutch specialist on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, suspects that Luis Posada Carriles has highly discriminating evidence against Bush Sr. that could be divulged if the terrorist should die a suspicious death.

In an interview with Granma International, Wim Dankbaar (www.jfkmurdersolved.com), who financed a new investigation into the death of Kennedy in cooperation with retired FBI agents, is not hiding his shock at the “reappearance” of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in Miami, which: “I cannot understand.”

 "This is just astounding. The apathy of the media even more so", he continues, "Why isn’t any media source writing that the man was not pardoned from his sentence for killing 73 people, but that he escaped and is still a convicted terrorist on the loose?"

Dankbaar, also a Dutch businessman, who has made a documentary on the assassination of Kennedy titled Second Look, has shown how one of the three individuals arrested by Dallas police shortly after the crime placed Luis Posada Carriles in Dealey Square in that same city at the moment of the assassination.

He affirms that Chauncey Holt, one of three supposed vagrants arrested - in truth, they were Mafia hitmen in disguise - testified on the facts in a two-hour video recording made shortly before his death and which was never transmitted. “In this recording,” said Dankbaar, ”Holt names a few Cuban-Americans, including Luis Posada Carriles.

"He identifies the other two vagrants as Charles Rogers and Charles Harrelson. Harrelson is a convicted hitman serving life for another murder, and also father of Hollywood actor Woody Harrelson."

Chauncey Holt was working for Meyer Lansky, notorious chief of the Havana mafia during the 1950s, and Pete Licavoli, another U.S. mafia leader.

But Holt, according to the expert, was also a CIA operative. His instructions for Dallas came from his undercover CIA supervisor Philip Twombly of the Fullerton Bank in California. Those instructions were specifically to make and deliver secret service credentials to a rabid anti-Castro militant called Homer Echevarría, who was a close associate of Cuban exile leader Paulino Sierra . Holt further relates that he made ID cards in the names of Lee Harvey Oswald, Lee Henry Oswald, Leon Oswald, Leon Osborne and Alek Hidell.

Furthermore he drove to Dallas from  Licavoli’s Arizona ranch in the company of Leo Moceri and Charles Nicoletti, both hitmen for mafia moguls Giancana and Licavoli. Holt’s testimony on the Kennedy plot is therefore clear evidence of collaboration between the CIA, organized crime and the Cuban exile community, with the consent of high-level officials in the US government. Dankbaar points out that mafia boss Sam Giancana’s biography - edited by his brother - discloses the role played by two buddies of former Havana chief Santos Trafficante, one of which could perfectly be Posada, according to the description given.

The research financed by Dankbaar was led by retired detective Zack Shelton, who worked for the FBI for 28 years, principally in Chicago and Kansas City. The film entitled Second Look presents the results of his investigation.

According to Dankbaar, the presence in Dallas of several small groups of individuals linked both to the Cuban-American leadership of the Batista faction and the Italian mafia could be explained by the CIA’s compartmentalization of its operations.  In addition to Posada, the film reveals the presence in Dealey Square of other known Cuban-American CIA operatives, such as Frank Sturgis and Orlando Bosch..

Dankbaar does not discount the possibility that Posada may have been one of the snipers who fired at Kennedy.

He points out that  in one of his recent televised special presentations, President Fidel Castro noted that Posada used the code name Hunter (Cazador) and boasted a certificate as an expert sharpshooter awarded by a U.S. military academy from which he graduated as a lieutenant, according to a declassified document.

"Posada was almost killed in Guatemala in 1990. It may have been the work of the CIA. This guy knows too much, and I don't think it is too exaggerated to assume he has communicated some type of "insurance," says Dankbaar.

“Remember how CIA drug smuggler and Iran-Contra operative Barry Seal was gunned down? If you believe his lawyer, Seal was in direct contact with George Bush. And the personal telephone number of George H. W. Bush was found in the trunk of Seal's car. They blamed his murder on the Medellin cartel, but he was scheduled to testify and there were a lot of rumors that he had a video tape featuring Jeb and George W. Bush."

 The expert also cites the case of David Morales: “David Sánchez Morales is another CIA killer involved in the JFK assassination, who died under suspicious circumstances. He had secured his house with double alarm systems, but not against burglars. He confessed to a friend: ‘It's my own guys I’m worried about. I know too damned much.’  So it's possible that Posada could blackmail the Bush administration... given that fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if he gets his asylum.”

“And does the fact that ex-operative Porter Goss, who admits to having participated in acts of terrorism against Cuba from the JM/WAVE station, facilitate Posada’s return?”

“Of course. The man that Bush selected has been part of CIA efforts to overthrow the Castro regime and assassinate its leader," Dankbaar confirms. “Goss is the ideal man to keep possible scandals under the carpet for Bush and in particular, for his father. The two of them are both accomplices in the same history. ”  •

NOVO BROTHERS, BOSCH AND POSADA MEET UP THROUGH THE COMPANY

In his book El Complot (The Conspiracy) recently published by Ocean Press, Fabián Escalante, retired general and ex-chief of Cuban Intelligence, notes that a report received from his service in mid-1963 referred to “the presence of a subject subsequently identified as (Lee Harvey) Oswald at a meeting of a group of terrorists of Cuban origin, including the Novo brothers, Orlando Bosch, “Tony” Cuesta and Luis Posada, in a CIA safe house on the outskirts of Miami.”

Escalante likewise disclosed how Posada Carriles and Guillermo Novo Sampoll, now both back in Miami, as well as Orlando Bosch, released in July 1990 by President George Bush Sr, appear on the list of suspects involved in the conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy drawn up by the Cuban state security agencies.

Escalante described how in April 1963, Cuban-American capos in Florida and New Jersey created an organization called the Junta of the Cuban Government in Exile (JGCE), involving Carlos Prío Socarrás, an ex-president of Cuba; Felipe Rivero and Paulino Sierra González, a U.S. mafia representative.

One month later there was a meeting on Bimini in the Bahamas, in the vicinity of Miami, attended by Carlos Prío, mafioso capo John Roselli; William Carr, the aide of Colonel King, head of the CIA Western Hemisphere Division; and Robert Rogers, the case officer.

Subsequently there were meetings to the same end that included terrorists like Frank Sturgis, Howard Hunt, Orlando Piedra, Antonio (Tony) Cuesta, Eladio del Valle, Joaquín Sanjenis, Manuel Artime, Orlando Bosch, Antonio Veciano and... Luis Posada Carriles.