Historical Dictionary of Terrorism Third Edition

130 • CUBAN-AMERICAN NATIONAL FOUNDATIONMarch 1987 but was quickly captured two days later. Following Croatia’swinning of independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, JulienneBusic was appointed by President Franjo Tudjman to the diplomaticpost of adviser to the Croatian ambassador to the United States, PetarSarcevic. This appointment of a convicted terrorist to a diplomaticpost within the United States drew protests in December 1994 fromthe New York Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association as well as fromKathlyn Murray, the widow of the police officer killed by the bombin Grand Central Station in 1976.From 17 March 1980 to 4 July 1982, the group carried out fivebombings in the United States. On 17 March 1980 the U.S. officeof a Yugoslavian bank was bombed; on 3 June 1980 the home ofthe acting Yugoslavian ambassador was bombed. A pipe bomb alsoexploded at the Manhattan New York State Supreme Court on 23January 1981, for which prior notice was given by the group. On 4July 1982 a travel agency office was pipe-bombed in Astoria, NewYork, while on the same day New York City police defused a bombset at the Yugoslavian Airlines office. None of these incidents causedany injuries. Since Croatia won its independence in 1991, this grouphas ceased to operate.CUBAN-AMERICAN NATIONAL FOUNDATION (CANF). TheCANF was incorporated as a nonprofit lobbying group on 6 July1981 by Jorge Mas Canosa, a leader in the anti-Castro Cuban exilecommunity and a veteran of the failed Bay of Pigs intervention. Severalof its members were implicated in a plot to assassinate CubanPresident Fidel Castro while Luis Posada Carrile, one of the closestpersonal associates of Canosa, publicly admitted to directing a terroristbombing campaign within Cuba.Before Canosa died in November 1997 from lung cancer, membersof the inner circle of the CANF made a deathbed promiseto him that they would assassinate Castro. The plot was to shootCastro with a long-range assault rifle as he disembarked from hisplane on Margarita Island in Venezuela, the site of a regional summit.On 27 October 1997 the U.S. Coast Guard boarded the cabincruiser Esperanza off the coast of Puerto Rico and discovered a secretcompartment containing two .50-caliber Barrett assault rifles,along with ammunition, which turned out to be registered to JoseFrancisco Hernandez, who had succeeded Canosa as president of