Orlando Bosch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Militant Cuban anti-Castro militant; former fugitive wanted on terrorism charges
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Place of Birth: Villa Clara Province, Cuba
About Orlando Bosch
- Orlando Bosch Ávila (18 August 1926 – 27 April 2011) was a Cuban exile, Central Intelligence Agency-backed operative, and head of Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, which the FBI has described as "an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization".
- Former U.S.
- Attorney General Dick Thornburgh called Bosch an "unrepentant terrorist".
- He was accused of taking part in Operation Condor and several terrorist attacks, including bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner on 6 October 1976 in which all 73 people on board were killed, including many young members of a Cuban fencing team and five North Koreans.
- The bombing is alleged to have been plotted at a 1976 meeting in Washington, D.C.
- attended by Bosch, Luis Posada Carriles, and DINA agent Michael Townley.
- At the same meeting, the assassination of Chilean former minister Orlando Letelier is alleged to have been plotted.
- Bosch was given safe haven within the US in 1990 by President George H.
- W.
- Bush, who in 1976 as head of the CIA had declined an offer by Costa Rica to extradite Bosch.
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