Supporting Evidence and Publications

1. Excerpts of the ICAO Report / N2506 Transcripts

Main Articles

2. Castro’s License to Kill? - WORLD Magazine
3. Brothers Unrescued - Miami Herald Tropic Magazine Article
4. BackFire – The New Yorker, January 1998

Court Evidence

5. Excerpts of FAA vs José Basulto Court Hearings Transcript
6. MiGs Communications Transcript (undisclosed U.S. government source)
7. U.S. Radar Data:
     a) Position of aircraft N2506 (Basulto's airplane) on 2/24/96 at 3:53 PM EST
     b) USAF Screen Prints
     c) Customs screen prints - show "trigger line"

Official Military Responses and Contradictions Identified by Brothers to the Rescue (BTTR)

8. General Howard G. DeWolf’s letter to Congressman Burton and BTTR’s response
9. General Rodney P. Kelly’s Report of Inquiry and BTTR’s response

10. General Sheehan’s lobbying efforts before and after the shootdown

Articles & Events

11. Precedent of US Interceptors assisting BTTR - MiG incident

BTTR's History and Commitment to Nonviolence

12. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. nonviolence lessons
13. Operation: Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Operation "Martin Luther King, Jr." (Press Release)
• Spreading King’s Message
• Thirteen minutes over Havana (The Miami Herald)
• A political deluge (The Miami Herald)

14. "Cuban officials gave explicit warning…"

• Admiral Eugene Carroll (CNN)
• Letter from Center for Defense Information
• List of US military officials meeting in Cuba

15. Evidence of Premeditation

• Clinton’s Cuban Road to Florida (Time Magazine)
• UN probe: Cuban downing of aircraft was "premeditated"
• Witness to be deported… Letter from Ralph E. Fernandez
• Witness: Shootdown of four pilots planned (The Miami Herald)
• Release Cubans, Say 2 in Congress (Herald Tribune)
• Brothers to the Rescue Intensifies Legal Battle (Translation, El Nuevo Herald - Jan 22, 1999)

16. BTTR supports nonviolent internal opposition - Concilio Cubano

• Nuccio defiende ... (El Nuevo Herald)
• Letter – Brothers requests permit to send funds – unanswered
• ‘Brothers’ gives money to democratic groups in Cuba (The Miami Herald)

17. BTTR announces intent to fly on Feb 24

• Press Release - Feb. 22 1996

18. The Plane Than Foiled Castro’s Plot (The Wall Street Journal)

19. Cuban double-agent Roque’s link to the FBI

• Interview with Roque in Havana (Lucia Newman, CNN)
• FBI admits paying Cuban to spy, inform on exiles

20. US Radar, on special alert, tracked BTTR Flights

• 911 call over MiGs elicited no action (The Miami Herald)
• Tracking the Brothers flights (The Miami Herald - 6/27/96)

21. Testimony of Jose Basulto, President of Brothers to the Rescue before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere - September 18, 1996

22. Unanswered requests for a full investigation, unanswered questions and related material. Contradictions in official statements identified by BTTR

• U.S. jets were ready to challenge MiGs (The Miami Herald)-Contradictions
  
• Radars in Cuba, U.S. were on alert (The Miami Herald)
  BTTR press release of June 28, 1996-BTTR asks the U.S. Government: WHY?
  
• Pilots group seeks probe of shootdown (The Miami Herald)
  
• Pilot Alleges Security Lapse (By George Gedda, AP writer)-Contradictions
  
• Pilot Says U.S. Knew of Cuban MiGs (The Washington Post)-More questions
  
• Cuban exiles seek probe of shootdown (The Miami Herald)
  
• BTTR press conference in Washington D.C. and in Miami, FL
  Congressman Díaz-Balart seeks congressional investigation on BTTR questions
  
• José Basulto’s letter to Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat
  
• BTTR Press Release, September 13, 1996
  
• Panel quizzes Clinton aides on shootdown (The Miami Herald)-The only two witnesses pleaded ignorance on technical questions. The administration refused to allow key witness Major Jeffrey Houlihan to testify in public.
  
• US officials evasive in probe of downed planes (Palm Beach Post) - Contradictions
  
• Lawmakers assail officials over downings (The Miami Herald)
  
• Letter from Congressman Dan Burton to the Inspector General of the Department of Defense-Questions
  
• Senator Jesse Helms press release of Oct. 3, 1996: "The American people have not been told the truth about this tragic event".- List of questions
  
• Department of Defense Asst Inspector General's letter to Jose Basulto and response
  
• Questions by Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Congressman Lincoln Díaz-Balart during period April 16, 1998 to Aug. 31, 1998.
  
• Response by the Department of Defense of Dec. 1998 refusing to answer "complicated and sensitive" questions by invoking "national security"
  
• Group seeks files on downed planes (The Miami Herald)

Encore? Instructions from the FAA to BTTR’s Airplanes to Submit to Orders by Castro’s MiGs-July 1998. More contradictions.

23. Letter by Congressman Lincoln Díaz Balart and response by Samuel R. Berger, Assistant to the President for National Security. BTTR’s response to contradictions in Mr. Berger’s letter.