Man says ex-CIA agent Posada gave him explosives for hotel bombing

David Edwards
Raw Story
Feb 10, 2011

In an exclusive interview Tuesday, a Salvadoran man told The Associated Press that a former CIA operative gave him powerful explosives and cash to carry out a 1997 hotel bombing in Cuba.

Otto Rene Rodriguez said that he was given C-4 explosives and $2,000 by Luis Posada Carriles to enable the bombing at Havana’s Melia Cohiba hotel on Aug. 3, 1997. He was later captured in Cuba with 3.3 pounds of C-4 that he said was given to him by Posada.

“Truthfully, looking me in the eyes he cannot say he doesn’t know me,” Rodriguez told the wire service. “He does know me. He used me like a tool.”

Posada, 82, is on trial for lying to US immigration agents about his arrival in the United States in 2005, charges that carry a maximum penalty of 60 years in prison.

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