Luis Clemente Posada Carriles, born in Cienfuegos, Cuba in 1928, is considered a terrorist, due his participation (as the mastermind) in the terrorist bombing of Cubana de Aviacion flight 455, on October 6, 1976.
Posada Carriles is also credited as the organizer of a series of bomb attacks in 1997 against hotels in Havana. He was a member of the US Army, and a career police official in Venezuela. He was a key figure in the supply network to the Nicaraguan contras (1985-86) from Ilopango airport and later an advisor to the government of Jose Napoleon Duarte.