Background
On 11 June 1976, Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU) was founded at a meeting in the Dominican Republic, uniting five anti-Castro Cuban exile groups, including Alpha 66 and Omega 7. For three months prior to the bombing of Flight 455, CORU waged a campaign of violence against links between several Caribbean countries which had established links with Cuba. In July, the same flight had been targeted in Jamaica by a suitcase bomb which exploded shortly before being loaded onto the plane. Other attacks in the summer included bombings of a number of offices of airlines carrying out business with Cuba, including the offices of the BWIA West Indies Airlines in Barbados, of Air Panama in Colombia, and of Iberia and Nanaco Line in Costa Rica. Other attacks included the murder of a Cuban official in Mexico and two in Argentina; the September assassination of Orlando Letelier in Washington, D.C.; and "a mysterious fire in Guyana destroyed a large quantity of Cuban-supplied fishing equipment."
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