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#CubanNationalistMovement

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People (9)

  • Alvin Ross Former Tropicana blackjack dealer and Cuban Nationalist Movement member convicted of the Letelier murders in 1979 on a jailhouse informant's testimony, freed on appeal after United States v. Henry, and acquitted at retrial in 1981.
  • Carter Cornick FBI agent who received informant reports on Puerto Rican independence groups, ran the Chilbom investigation of the 1976 Letelier and Moffitt murders, and in 1988 founded Counter Terrorism Consultants with the case's prosecutor.
  • Felipe Rivero Founder and ideological chief of the Cuban Nationalist Movement whom Michael Townley named as the man who sent him to Guillermo Novo in 1975, called before the Letelier grand jury in 1977 and never charged.
  • Guillermo Novo Head of the northern zone of the Cuban Nationalist Movement who fired a bazooka at the United Nations in 1964, visited Pinochet's Chile in 1974, and supplied Michael Townley with explosives for the Letelier bomb.
  • Ignacio Novo Co-founder of the Cuban Nationalist Movement, brother of Guillermo Novo, who bought forged papers from an FBI informant in 1977 and was convicted in 1979 of lying to the Letelier grand jury.
  • Jose Dionisio Suarez Cuban Nationalist Movement member who drove Michael Townley to Orlando Letelier's house in 1976 and, by Townley's account, pressed the buttons at Sheridan Circle, a fugitive until 1990 and released from immigration detention in 2001.
  • Michael Townley American-born assassin for the Chilean secret police who killed Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires and Orlando Letelier in Washington with car bombs, made sarin in his basement, served five years, and lives under witness protection.
  • Ricardo Cañete FBI informant in Brooklyn who in the spring of 1977 sold forged identity papers to Ignacio Novo of the Cuban Nationalist Movement and reported his talk of counterfeit money and war to the bureau.
  • Virgilio Paz Cuban Nationalist Movement member lent to DINA in 1975, who travelled with Michael Townley through Mexico and Europe, proposed the false Cuban claim for the Leighton shooting, and accompanied him to kill Orlando Letelier.

Organizations (2)

  • CORU Umbrella of five Cuban exile organizations formed under Orlando Bosch in the Dominican Republic on June 11, 1976, whose members bombed a Cubana airliner that October and lent DINA the men who killed Orlando Letelier.
  • Cuban Nationalist Movement Cuban exile group in New Jersey whose leaders supplied the men who helped the Chilean secret police agent Michael Townley kill Orlando Letelier in Washington in 1976.