EL PASO, Texas -- A federal judge granted a small victory to an elderly ex-CIA operative Friday, ruling that jurors in his immigration fraud trial could only see a photocopy of a Guatemalan passport that bears his picture and a false name.
Luis Posada Carriles, an anti-communist militant from Cuba, is accused of lying during citizenship hearings in El Paso in 2005. Prosecutors allege that the passport - especially its stamps - indicate that Posada sneaked into the U.S. by sailing into Miami and not by crossing the Texas-Mexico border with a smuggler, as he claimed during those hearings.
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(Posted by Haley Gordon)
