Luis Posada Carriles: The Declassified Record: "Declassified CIA and FBI records posted today on the Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University identify Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, who is apparently in Florida seeking asylum, as a former CIA agent and as one of the 'engineer[s]' of the 1976 terrorist bombing of Cubana Airlines flight 455 that killed 73 passengers.

The documents include a November 1976 FBI report on the bombing cited in yesterday's New York Times article 'Case of Cuban Exile Could Test the U.S. Definition of Terrorist,' CIA trace reports covering the Agency's recruitment of Posada in the 1960s, as well as the FBI intelligence reporting on the downing of the plane. The Archive also posted a second FBI report, dated one day after the bombing, in which a confidential source 'all but admitted that Posada and [Orlando] Bosch had engineered the bombing of the airline.' In addition, the posting includes several documents relating to Bosch and his suspected role in the downing of the jetliner on October 6, 1976."

(Via The National Security Archives.)