The Associated Press
Posted January 11 2007, 5:42 PM EST
EL PASO, Texas -- An anti-Castro Cuban exile being held by U.S.
immigration officials was indicted Thursday on one count of
naturalization fraud and six counts of making false statements in a
naturalization proceeding, the Justice Department said.
Luis Posada Carriles, 78, is a former CIA operative with ties to the
failed Bay of Pigs invasion in the 1960s. He has been accused of
plotting the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner in Venezuela.
The governments of Cuba and Venezuela want Posada, who has born in Cuba
and is a naturalized citizen of Venezuela, sent back to the South
American country to face trial in the bombing.
The indictment alleges that Posada knowingly lied on his application and
under oath when applying for naturalization to the United States in
September 2005 and April 2006.
He has been in U.S. immigration custody since May 2005 after surfacing
in Miami.
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