An old amigo named 'Felix' was in that group I do believe. I think he wrote a pretty good book about his exploits that details the last few days of Comrade Che'.
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02/22/2004 10:21:56 PM PST by
archy
(Concrete shoes, cyanide, TNT! Done dirt cheap! Neckties, contracts, high voltage...Done dirt cheap!)
The date was December 23, 1988. Bush penned
a brief, congenial Christmas note to a controversial figure, former CIA operative Felix Rodriguez. "Good luck," said part of Bush's message. "May 1989 by calmer than 1988."
It had indeed been a tumultuous year, for both Bush and Rodriguez. During 1988 many of the facts about the Iran-Contra scandal had come to light, even as Bush managed an electoral victory for the office of President of the United States. Both men had been mired in allegations that they participated in illegal operations run by the CIA and National Security Council aide Oliver North.
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| George and Felix, chillin' at the VP office. |
Rodriguez, like Bush, had deep connections in the intelligence community. A Cuban exile who participated in several CIA anti-Castro projects, Rodriguez was a self-proclaimed "Shadow Warrior" (the title of his autobiography). When the CIA's secret war against Cuba died down, Rodriguez would go on to serve in U.S. paramilitary operations in Vietnam and elsewhere. His most famous CIA assignment came in 1967, when he witnessed the capture and execution of Che Guevara, the Argentine Communist who helped lead the Cuban revolution.
During the early 1980s, Rodriguez was stationed in El Salvador, where he played an instrumental role in a supply network set up by Reagan administration officials to aid the Nicaraguan contras, a rebel force backed by the CIA.
A congressional investigation led by Senator John Kerry turned up evidence that some contra groups who used this network were also transporting significant quantities of cocaine.
Neither Bush nor Rodriguez was directly implicated in the contra cocaine trade. However, both men were intimately involved with the policies that made such scandalous activity possible. Bush may or may not want to include his letter to Rodriguez in the official Bush correspondence collection. But if that collection is to include the truly revealing letters from Bush's career, this one should be a prime candidate.
Speaking of the hero Felix Rodriguez:
"To clear his name, Felix Rodriguez was forced to write his own book, Shadow Warrior. The truth is all there, to the lasting shame of John Kerry. If you're even thinking of voting for this man, please read it. If not, still read it. You'll cheer out loud one minute, your throat will lump the next--then your blood will boil."
From:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1070636/posts 
