Coordinación de Organizaciones Revolucionarias Unidas

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The Coordinación de Organizaciones Revolucionarias Unidas (CORU) (English: Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations; German: Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations) was an umbrella organization formed in 1976 for several violent groups of Cuban exiles for the purpose of coordinated fight against the communist dictatorship under Fidel Castro in Cuba. It has been classified as a terrorist organization by the FBI . Leading members of the CORU were involved in the planning and execution of Operation Condor , an assassination attempt on former Chilean minister Orlando Letelier del Solar in Washington, DC in 1976 .

According to released documents from US Agencies of which on the National Security Archive are available, the CORU was established in June 1976 in a small town in the Dominican Republic by Cuban exiles Orlando Bosch , Luis Posada Carriles , Guillermo Novo Sampoll and Gaspar Jiménez Escobedo founded to unite five different groups of Cubans in exile. According to an FBI report dated June 29, 1976 about Orlando Bosch Ávila's group Acción Cubana , the five groups agreed to cooperate in planning, financing and carrying out terrorist attacks and attacks against Cuba. Bosch Ávila also intended to carry out terrorist attacks against other states, such as Colombia , Mexico and Panama , which he considered to be procuban . According to the document, the kidnapping and execution of a diplomat was discussed at the founding meeting . A month later members of the CORU tried to kidnap the Cuban ambassador to Mexico. One of his companions was fatally hit by gunfire.

According to a document dated October 21, 1976, the FBI learned through an informant from a member of the CORU that the group was responsible for the bombing of Cubana Airline 455 on October 6, 1976. All 73 passengers and crew members died in the attack.

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  1. ↑ a b c The Posada File: Part II. The National Security Archive, June 9, 2005