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The following incidents have been described in notable sources as acts of State terrorism by the United States of America.

Cuba

According to 'Centro de Estudios Sobre America. "Crisis de Octubre: Cronologia." Informe Especial', a CIA agent named Carlos Antonio Rodriguez Cabo committed various acts of terrorism.

The United States government has conspired with organized crime figures to assassinate the Cuban head of state. In August 1960, Colonel Sheffield Edwards, director of the CIA's Office of Security, proposed the assassination of Fidel Castro by mafia assassins. Between August 1960, and April 1961, the CIA with the help of the Mafia pursued a series of plots to poison or shoot Castro (CIA, Inspector General's Report on Efforts to Assassinate Fidel Castro, p. 3, 14, archived at: www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/bayofpigs/chron.html).

The United States has refused to put on trial or to extradite Luis Posada Carriles, Guillermo Novo Sampol, Pedro Remon, and Gaspar Jimenezand to Cuba or Venezuela, although they are accused of having perpetrated terrorist acts. .

Iraq

According to former U.S. intelligence officials, the CIA orchestrated a bomb and sabotage campaign against Baghdad that included civilian and government targets between 1992 and 1995 (New York Times, June 9, 2004, free archived copy at www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0609-02.htm). The civilian targets included at least one school bus, killing schoolchildren, and a movie theater, killing many people.

Western Europe

On October 24, 1990 it was acknowledged by Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti to the Italian Parliament that NATO had long held a secret policy of support and training for right wing terrorist organisations in member states. The policy, which is codenamed Operation Gladio, and related terrorist groups are thought to have carried out the Bologna massacre (1980) , the Paris massacre (1961), political assassinations in Belgium, military coups in Greece (1967) and Turkey (1980) and an attempted coup in France (1961). The official aim was to prevent Communist movements in Western Europe gaining power. However, many researchers have commented that the true aim was often to increase the power and control of the United States over Europe. Officially, NATO refuses to comment on the issue, or confirm or deny the existence of Operation Gladio.

On 22 November 1990, the European Parliament passed a resolution condemning Gladio and requesting full investigations. In 2000, an Italian Parliament Commission report from the "Gruppo Democratici di Sinistra l'Ulivo" concluded that the strategy of tension had been supported by the United States to "stop the PCI (Communist Party), and to a certain degree also the PSI, from reaching executive power in the country". A 2000 Italian Senate report, stated that "Those massacres, those bombs, those military actions had been organised or promoted or supported by men inside Italian state institutions and, as has been discovered more recently, by men linked to the structures of United States intelligence."

References

1. The Bay of Pigs Invasion/Playa Girón: a Chronology of Events
2. Moral Misstep: Some Terrorists Get a Hero's Welcome, Washington Post, Sept. 3, 2004
3. Translated from Bologna massacre Association of Victims Italian website Original page Template:It icon
4. Cite error: The named reference Ganser was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
5. US 'supported anti-left terror in Italy', The Guardian, June 24, 2000

See also

• List of acts labelled as state terrorism sorted by state
• Allegations of war crimes against U.S. officials

• State terrorism