Granma International
January 31, 2002

Orlando Bosch’s terrorist curriculum vitae

                   • To refresh Otto Reich’s memory

                   FEW terrorists in history have achieved as high a level of criminal
                   activity as Orlando Bosch.

                   In 1968, his fame was so great that, while under arrest for a bazooka
                   attack on a Polish freighter, the city of Miami proclaimed Orlando Bosch Day,
                   in support of that "exemplary" anti-Castro fighter. The pace of the
                   attacks he carried out consisted of a campaign of terror aimed at scaring
                   the Miami community, and raising money for "the cause" – including, of
                   course, the terrorist leader’s bank account.

                   Unfortunately, his fellow Miami Cuban Otto Reich, now the White
                   House’s top man in Latin America – who helped Bosch escape from
                   Venezuelan justice and find refuge in the United States – seems to
                   have lost his memory. He declared at a Senate hearing, with
                   apparent candidness, that he was unaware of his friend Orlando
                   Bosch’s terrorist past.

                   That declaration notwithstanding, dozens and dozens of terrorist
                   attacks are attributed to Orlando Bosch and the gangs he led.
                   Perhaps this "black list" will refresh the memory of George W. Bush’s
                   close collaborator.

                   January 8, 1968: A bomb explodes in a suitcase in Havana

                   January 25, 1968: Bombs placed in various commercial
                   establishments in the United States

                   February 1, 1968: Mexican Consulate in Miami bombed

                   February 2, 1968: Bomb placed in British consul’s house in Miami

                   March 12, 1968: Bomb placed in restaurant belonging to Cuban
                   immigrants in the United States

                   March 13, 1968: Bomb placed in Chilean Consulate in the United
                   States

                   April 2, 1968: Bomb placed in pharmaceutical company in United
                   States

                   April 22, 1968: Bomb placed in Mexican Consulate, United States

                   April 22, 1968: Bomb placed in Spanish Tourism Office in the United
                   States

                   May 5, 1968: British ship Greenwood bombed in the United States

                   May 25, 1968: Bomb placed aboard the Japanese ship Aroka Maru
                   in the United States

                   June 21, 1968: Bomb placed in Spanish Tourism Office in the United
                   States

                   June 23, 1968: Bomb placed in Mexican Tourism Office in the United
                   States

                   June 27, 1968: Bomb explodes in the garage of Mexican consul to
                   the United States

                   July 4, 1968: Bomb placed in Cuban Consulate in Canada

                   July 4, 1968: Bomb placed in Canadian Tourism Office in United
                   States

                   July 7, 1968: Bomb placed in Japanese Tourism Office in the United
                   States

                   July 11, 1968: Bomb explodes near Cuban Mission to the UN,
                   causing damage to the Yugoslavian mission

                   July 11, 1968: Bomb placed aboard the Japanese ship Michagesan
                   Maru in Mexico

                   July 14, 1968: Bomb placed in Mexican Tourism Office in the United
                   States

                   July 15, 1968: Bomb discovered in a French government office in the
                   United States

                   July 16, 1968: Bomb discovered in the Mexican Consulate, United
                   States

                   July 17, 1968: Bomb placed in Cuban diplomat’s home in the United
                   States

                   July 19, 1968: Bomb placed in French Tourism Office in the United
                   States

                   July 19, 1968: Bomb placed in Shell Petroleum Company building in
                   England

                   July 19, 1968: Bomb placed in Japanese travel agency in the United
                   States

                   July 26, 1968: Bomb placed in Mexican Tourism Office in the United
                   States

                   July 31, 1968: Bomb placed in British Consulate in United States

                   August 3, 1968: Bomb placed in British bank in the United States

                   August 5, 1968: Bomb placed in offices of the Communist Party in
                   the United States

                   August 7, 1968: Bomb placed aboard the Bahamas ship Caribbean
                   Venture in the United States

                   August 9, 1968: Mexican representatives in the United States
                   bombed

                   August 9, 1968: Bomb placed in Mexican consul’s home in Miami

                   September 11, 1968: Bomb placed aboard British ship in Mexico

                   September 16, 1968: Bomb explodes aboard the Spanish ship
                   Satrustegui in Puerto Rico

                   September 16, 1968: Bazooka attack on Polish ship in Miami

                   September 17, 1968: Bomb placed aboard Mexican airplane in
                   United States

                   September 19, 1968: Bomb placed in home of Mexican consul to the
                   United States

                   October 18, 1968: Bomb placed in Canadian travel agency

                   October 20, 1968: Gas bomb placed in a theater where a Cuban
                   actress was performing

                   October 24, 1968: Attempts to assassinate Cuban ambassador to
                   the UN

                   July 26, 1969: Bomb placed in Mexican Tourism Office in the United
                   States

                   August 6, 1969: Bomb placed in British-owned Shell Oil offices in the
                   United States

                   August 6, 1969: Bomb placed in Air France offices in the United
                   States

                   In 1972, Bosch traveled to Chile with his friend Guillermo Novo
                   Sampol and puts himself at the disposal of General Augusto
                   Pinochet’s fascist junta. He subsequently participated in a series of
                   attacks on prominent Chileans in exile.

                   In 1974, Bosch created the terrorist organization called Cuban
                   Action, with the support of the Chilean junta and Nicaraguan dictator
                   Anastasio Somoza’s secret police.

                   January 21, 1974: Bomb placed in Cuban diplomatic office in Canada

                   January 21, 1974: Bomb placed in Cuban diplomatic office in
                   Argentina

                   January 21, 1974: Bomb placed in Cuban diplomatic office in Peru

                   January 21, 1974: Bomb placed in Cuban embassy in Mexico

                   February 13, 1974: Bomb placed in Cuban embassy in Madrid

                   April 4, 1974: Prensa Latina representatives bombed in Mexico

                   October 1, 1974: Bomb placed in Panamanian embassy in Caracas

                   October 30, 1974: Bomb placed in Venezuelan-Cuban Friendship
                   Institute in Venezuela

                   November 11, 1974: Bomb placed in hotel where Cuban officials
                   were staying in the United States

                   March 19, 1974: Assassination of General Carlos Prats, former
                   officer of the Chilean Armed Forces, and his wife, in Argentina

                   May 10, 1975: Attempt in Rome to kill Bernardo Leighton, vice
                   president of the Chilean Democratic Party in exile, and his wife

                   July 1975: Shots fired on the resident of a Cuban official in the United
                   States

                   August 3, 1975: Assassination attempt on Cuban Ambassador Emilio
                   Aragonés, in Argentina

                   November 17, 1975: Bomb placed in Venezuelan tourism company,
                   in Venezuela

                   November 30, 1975: Bomb placed in USSR commercial office in
                   Mexico

                   March 1976: Bosch is arrested by Costa Rican police for suspicion of
                   trying to assassinate exiled Chilean leader Andrés Pascal Allende

                   September 21, 1976: Assassination of Orlando Letelier, former
                   Chilean ambassador to the United States, and his secretary Ronnie
                   Moffitt

                   In 1976, Bosch founded the Command of United Revolutionary
                   Organizations (CORU), most of whose members had worked for the
                   CIA. He ordered another series of attacks.

                   June 6, 1976: Bomb placed in Cuban diplomatic mission at the UN

                   July 1, 1976: Bomb placed in Cuban-Costa Rican cultural center in
                   Costa Rica

                   July 8, 1976: Bomb placed in Cuban mission in Spain

                   September 7, 1976: Bomb placed in Cubana de Aviación warehouse
                   in Kingston, Jamaica

                   July 10, 1976: Bomb placed in Cubana de Aviación office in Barbados

                   July 11, 1976: Bomb placed in Air Panama offices in Colombia

                   July 23, 1976: Attempt to kidnap Cuban consul in Mérida, Mexico,
                   resulting in the death of Cuban fishing technician D’Artagnan Díaz Díaz

                   September 8, 1976: Kidnapping of two Cuban diplomats in Argentina

                   September 9, 1976: Bomb placed in Guyanese embassy in Trinidad
                   and Tobago

                   September 18, 1976: Bomb placed in Cubana de Aviación office in
                   Panama

                   October 6, 1976: Mid-flight explosion of a Cubana de Aviación
                   passenger plane, causing the deaths of all 73 persons on board

                   As a result of the plane bombing, Bosch was arrested in Venezuela
                   and accused of masterminding the horrible crime. Nevertheless, from
                   his cell he continued to dream up and order other attacks, against
                   Venezuelan targets, in order to pressure the Venezuelan justice
                   system to let him go.

                   March 30, 1977: Bomb placed in Venezuelan Consulate in Puerto
                   Rico

                   August 30, 1977: Bomb placed aboard a Venezuelan airplane in
                   Miami

                   December 23, 1977: Bomb placed in Viasa airline office, United
                   States

                   December 30, 1977: Bomb placed in Venezuelan Consulate in Puerto
                   Rico

                   In 1978, also from his cell, he ordered attacks on Mexican interests,
                   in response to the measures taken by that government following the
                   death of Cuban fishing technician D’Artagnan Díaz Díaz.

                   February 7, 1978: Bomb placed in Mexican Consulate in the United
                   States

                   February 7, 1978: Bomb placed aboard the Mexican ship Azteca,
                   resulting in two deaths and seven injuries

                   Later, still from his cell, he directed and maintained the actions of
                   Omega-7, consisting of a long chain of terrorist attacks.

                   September 9, 1978: Bomb placed in Cuban mission at the UN

                   October 5, 1978: Bomb placed across from Madison Square Garden,
                   where Cuban boxers were supposed to fight

                   October 6, 1978: Bomb placed in offices of Girasol tourism
                   company, belonging to the Socialist Party of Puerto Rico

                   October 6, 1978: Bomb placed in offices of Antillana tourism
                   company of Puerto Rico

                   October 6, 1978: Bomb placed in offices of the Record Public Service
                   company, owned by a Cuban immigrant in Puerto Rico

                   October 23, 1978: Bomb placed in La Prensa newspaper in the
                   United States

                   November 18, 1978: Bomb threats made against TWA, due to its
                   flights to Cuba

                   December 28, 1978: Bomb placed in office of Varadero Travel in
                   Puerto Rico

                   December 29, 1978: Bomb placed in Cuban mission at the UN

                   December 29, 1978: Bomb placed in Lincoln Center, New York

                   March 26, 1979: Bomb placed in TWA offices at New York’s JFK
                   Airport

                   March 26, 1979: Bomb placed in office of Weehawken company of
                   New Jersey, headed by Cuban Eulalio J. Negrín, a member of the
                   Committee of 75, which was negotiating with Cuba

                   April 4, 1979: Murder of Carlos Muñoz Varela, member of the
                   Antonio Maceo Brigade and director of Varadero Travel in Puerto Rico

                   November 25, 1979: Eulalio J. Negrín murdered

                   September 11, 1980: Murder of Félix García Rodríguez, Cuban
                   diplomat to the United Nations

                   In 1987, thanks to Otto Reich, Bosch was freed and entered the
                   United States, where he was granted asylum and even a presidential
                   pardon.

                   By the start of the 1980s, the Cuban American National Foundation
                   (CANF) was in existence, and its leader, Jorge Mas Canosa, directed
                   counterrevolutionary and terrorist attacks.

                   Once he took refuge in the United States, Bosch continued advising
                   the most fanatical elements of the Miami mafia. Even within the
                   terrorist gang directed by Luis Posada Carriles that planned to
                   assassinate Fidel Castro in Panama, there are several of the old
                   terrorist’s friends. Gaspar Jiménez Escobedo, Pedro Remón and
                   Guillermo Novo Sampol were guilty of numerous terrorist actions
                   against Cuba and other countries, among them the machine-gunning
                   of Félix García Rodríguez in New York; the killing of Cuban fishing
                   technician D’Artagnan Díaz Díaz by terrorist Gaspar Jiménez
                   Escobedo; and the kidnapping of two diplomats in Argentina.

                   What a bad memory Mr. Reich has, after so many years of
                   collaboration with the CIA and the CANF!