Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU) has been described by the FBI as "an anti-Castro terrorist umbrella organization". It has taken part in operation Condor, organizing Chilean former minister Orlando Letelier's assassination in Washington, D.C. in 1976. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... Fidel Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) has ruled Cuba since 1959, when, leading the 26th of July Movement, he overthrew the regime of Fulgencio Batista, and transformed Cuba into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. ... For other uses of Operation Condor, please see Operation Condor (disambiguation) Operation Condor (Spanish:Operación Cóndor) was a campaign of assassination and intelligence-gathering, dubbed counter-terrorism, conducted jointly by the security services of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay in the mid-1970s. ... Orlando Letelier (1932 April 13 - 1976 September 21) was a member of the Chilean government who was assassinated in Washington, D.C., by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1976. ... Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

CORU was founded by Cuban anti-Castro exiles Orlando Bosch, Luis Posada Carriles, Guillermo Novo Sampoll and Gaspar Jiménez Escobedo. Orlando Bosch is a Cuban exile accused of a variety of anti-Castro political violence (considered terrorist attacks by both the Cuban government and the FBI). ... Luis Posada Carriles in an undated photo. ...

According to declassified documents made public by the National Security Archive, CORU was created to unify five different Cuban exile groups at a meeting in Bonao, a small town in the Dominican Republic in June 1976. In a June 29, 1976, report on Orlando Bosch's group Accion Cubana, FBI sources stated that "these groups agreed to jointly participate in the planning, financing, and carrying out of terrorist operations and attacks against Cuba." (page 8) Orlando Bosch, according to the document, was committed to violent acts against other countries he believed supported Cuba, including Colombia, Mexico and Panama. At the meeting, according to the document, the groups discussed kidnapping and executing a diplomat. A month later CORU members attempted to kidnap the Cuban ambassador to Mexico; one of his aides was shot and killed [1]. The National Security Archive is an independent organization located in George Washington University. ... June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Orlando Bosch is a Cuban exile accused of a variety of anti-Castro political violence (considered terrorist attacks by both the Cuban government and the FBI). ...

A FBI document dated October 21, 1976, transmits information from a source who has spoken with a member of CORU named Secundino Carrera who admitted "that CORU was responsible for the bombing of the Cubana Airlines DC-8 on October 6, 1976." Carrera justifies the bombing as an act of war. The memo indicates that the bombing has caused some dissention in CORU over its tactics, but that the organization headed by Orlando Bosch is planning to sell bonds to finance future operations. October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 71 days remaining. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article needs copyediting (checking for proper English spelling, grammar, usage, etc. ... Orlando Bosch is a Cuban exile accused of a variety of anti-Castro political violence (considered terrorist attacks by both the Cuban government and the FBI). ...

Members of CORU

• Orlando Bosch has been head of CORU.
• Luis Posada Carriles
• Secundino Carrera

See also

• Cubana Flight 455
• operation Condor
• National Security Archive

External links

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