The U.S. government fears what an anti-Castro activist may reveal after years of working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Mexico's Reforma newspaper quoted Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque as saying Tuesday.

Luis Posada Carriles, wanted on charges of bombing a Cuban airliner and Cuban hotels, is the main agent in the anti-Cuba terror campaign run by the CIA, Perez Roque said.

U.S. President George W. Bush fears what Posada Carriles will reveal about activities of his father, George Bush, as CIA director, he added.

Cuba says Posada Carriles organized a 1976 bombing of a Cuban passenger plane that killed 73 people in Venezuela, as well as an assassination attempt against Cuban leader Fidel Castro during the Panama Ibero-American summit in 2000.

Perez Roque said the United States should extradite the suspect to Venezuela where he is wanted by the government.

Cuban-born and later naturalized in Venezuela, 79-year-old Posada Carriles is currently living in the U.S. city of Miami.

He is wanted in Cuba and Venezuela as a terrorist on charges of downing the airliner and other bomb attacks.

In 1985, Posada Carriles escaped from a Venezuelan prison. He was also sentenced in Panama to eight years in prison in 2000, but outgoing Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso pardoned him in 2004.

A U.S. district judge threw out an immigration indictment against him last Tuesday, effectively freeing him to travel anywhere in the United States.

Cuba and Venezuela have both demanded Posada Carriles' extradition, but U.S. authorities refused, saying he might be tortured, and failed to find any taker when they suggested sending him to another country.

Source: Xinhua