Miami — The federal government has dropped subpoenas that sought notes from The New York Times and the writer of a series of 1998 articles about a former CIA operative and Cuban militant.
The attorney for the newspaper and writer Ann Bardach said Tuesday that U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta had notified him that Homeland Security "will not seek to enforce" the subpoenas.
"We're very pleased," said attorney Tom Julin. The decision in effect upheld First Amendment privileges, he said.
The subpoenas, issued in May, requested copies of all tape recordings and documents relating to a 1998 interview Bardach conducted with Luis Posada Carriles.
After that interview, Bardach wrote that Posada had "admitted to masterminding" a 1997 bombing campaign in Cuba, something Posada later denied.
Posada, 77, has also been accused of involvement in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner. His involvement in the Iran-Contra affair has been detailed in U.S. government documents, and his lifetime of militancy against Cuban President Fidel Castro and other leftist Latin American governments is well known.
He is currently in an immigration facility in Texas, facing deportation on charges of entering the United States illegally earlier this year.
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