active 1960s–2000sGeneral sourceWell documented
Luis Posada Carriles: The Exile Assassin
On the timeline · around active 1960s–2000s ·
What happened
Luis Posada Carriles was the archetype of the CIA-trained exile: recruited and schooled by the agency in the 1960s, he spent the rest of his life plotting against Castro and Cuba, tied to bombings and assassination schemes across the hemisphere while repeatedly evading justice.
Why it matters
Posada embodied the long afterlife of the CIA's secret war — a militant the agency had created who pursued Castro for over forty years.