Paris, Feb. 25 (Bloomberg) -- A former Cuban security official testified to the French anti-terrorist judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere that Cuban President Fidel Castro provided logistical support to "Carlos the Jackal,'' who is in a French jail for a series of politically motivated attacks during the 1970's, French daily Le Monde reported. The Venezuelan-born Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, was aided and abetted by a Cuban secret services official when he killed two French police officers in June 1975, said Juan Antonio Rodriguez. The Cuban exile, who lives in the U.S., is also quoted as a witness in the complaint against Castro filed in Paris by the daughter of a highly-placed Cuban army officer who was executed in 1989 for drug-trafficking in France and Europe; she claims Castro organized the smuggling.
Carlos is serving a sentence of life imprisonment for shooting dead two French intelligence agents and a Lebanese citizen in Paris in 1975.
(Le Monde 1/25 dated 1/26 or www.lemonde.fr)
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