CASTRO AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISMAgustin Blazquez with the collaboration of Jaums Sutton, © 2001 ABIP With the criminal
terrorist attack against the U.S. it seems to be pertinent to bring to
the forefront information about Castro that - although in public records
- has been dangerously ignored by the U.S. government and the American
people. Perhaps to satisfy the far-left agenda controlling the media and
academia. Cuba’s proximity to
the U.S. and Castro’s hatred for this country and its institutions,
and his years of training, arming and aiding terrorists to conduct his
public war against the U.S. and his sinister underground plans against
this country to cause havoc and destruction, make it relevant to point
out these well founded facts. America’s wake up call must include our
hemisphere’s greatest international terrorist. The documentation of
Fidel Castro’s known involvement in international terrorism goes back
to his active participation in the April 1948 revolt in Bogota,
Colombia. According to Georgie Anne Geyer’s Guerrilla Prince,
this revolt left 5,000 dead and a third of Bogota in ashes. The same
book recounts his involvement in the December 1948 attempt to overthrow
Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. In addition, Castro
masterminded a failed terrorist attack on the Moncada Garrison on July
26, 1953, where his men killed, in cold blood, soldiers in their
hospital beds. After Batista pardoned and released Castro from a
privileged tenure of about 19 months of his 15-year sentence for his
Moncada attack, he went to Mexico, where in August 1955 he established
contact with the Soviet KGB agent Nikolai Leonov. And the future of Cuba
was compromised onto a sinister, radical, left-wing Fascist path. After his return to
Cuba in the Sierra Maestra Mountains, he began blackmailing, terrorizing
and executing farmers in that area who refused to supply him with food
or join his effort. He also kidnapped American marines and others to
gain political leverage. In the cities, his terrorist actions in public
places resulted in many civilian deaths. According to Dr. Armando
Lago’s research for a book, "2,826 lost their lives during the
struggle against Batista between March 10, 1952 and December 31, 1958.
Castro’s forces were responsible for 1432 of the deaths and Batista
for 1394." Dr. Lago says his
figures are based on details provided by Bohemia magazine, although, as
a supporter of Castro, the magazine’s headline proclaimed 20,000
deaths – the figure oft quoted by Castro. Castro’s unsupported
figure of 20,000 is what the media publishes all over the world without
questioning its veracity as do as the academics in the learning centers
in the U.S. and abroad. Castro’s reign of
terror began with his takeover of Cuba in 1959 and his summary
executions without trials, massive incarcerations, setting aside the
Constitution and organizing doomed armed operations against Panama and
The Dominican Republic to export his left-wing Fascist terror, disguised
as "liberation." Because of his
well-documented hatred for the United States and the freedom it
represents, he concocted a plan to send drugs into this country. Dr.
Rachel Ehrenfeld’s 1988 paper Narco-Terrorism and the Cuban
Connection refers to a secret report by the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Agency (DEA) published by The Miami Herald in November 1983
corroborating and dating Castro’s participation in drug-trafficking
into the U.S. to 1961. Castro, with his
visceral hatred for the U.S., asked Khrushchev during the October 1962
Missile Crisis to lunch a nuclear attack against the U.S. And during the
Vietnam War, Castro dispatched his henchmen to Hanoi to viciously
torture U.S. POWs as documented by the historians Stuart Rochester and
Frederick Riley’s book Honor Bound. Since very early on
Castro has been involved in arming, training and offering sanctuary to
terrorists from all over the world. Dr. Ehrenfeld says in her paper that
the 1979 edition of the Soviet Military Encyclopedia recommends
"the use of ‘biological weapons, narcotics, terrorist activities,
poisons and other methods. This definition accords with a decision made
at the Tri-Continental Conference of world revolutionary groups held in
Havana in January 1966. The decision called for the planned
destabilization of the United States and explicitly detailed such
activities as the exploitation and undermining of American society
through the trafficking of drugs and promotion of other corrupting
criminal activities." According to Irving
Louis Horowitz’s Preface of David J. Kopilow’s 1985 paper Castro,
Israel and the PLO, this Tri-Continental Conference, heavily
attended by more than 500 delegates from radical leftist groups and
terrorists, led "a series of moves ranging from Cuban
co-sponsorship of the U.N. General Assembly resolution condemning
‘Zionism as Racism’ to manifest training and support for PLO
efforts." Castro provided tank crews that fought alongside the
Syrians against Israel in the 1973 Syrian-Israeli "war of
attrition." At a point, Cuba had 3,000 troops deployed in Syria. Horowitz says,
"even the exceptional talents of Jewish writers on
post-revolutionary Cuba, often harnessed in support of the Castro
regime, reveals a seamier side: the deep, embittered silence of these
scholars of Jewish origin when confronted with the burdensome evidence
of Castro’s unbridled anti-Semitism, coupled with the near total
disintegration of the pre-1959 thriving Jewish community of Havana in
particular and Cuba in general." Castro decimated the Jewish
community in Cuba; today about 700 remain. "Castro has
helped the PLO gain prominence in the United Nations and other
international arenas, introduced the PLO into Central America, [and
Africa] provided direct military support by sending troops to the
Middle East, and giving training to PLO terrorists." And Kopilow
also documents that one of the most famous graduates of the Cuban
terrorist training’s camps was Illich Ramirez Sanchez, known as
"’Carlos the Jackal,’ who was responsible for much success of
Palestinian terrorism in Europe." He also says,
"The Havana office of the PLO is now located in the same building
which houses the Cuban Zionist Center." In 1981, the PLO arranged a
Libyan loan to Cuba of nearly $50 million. Castro maintains close
working relations with Libya’s Moammar Qaddafi. According to an AP
dispatch dated May 16, 2001, Castro visited Qaddafi "six
times" from March 6 to May 16, 2001. This last suspicious visit was
after visiting Algeria, Iran, Malaysia, Qatar and Syria. Qaddafi even
presented him in the past with a "human rights" award for
"his fight against the U.S." Castro cultivates the
alliance of other devotee war monger- U.S.-hating tyrants like Iraq’s
Saddam Hussein as well as other state sponsors of terrorism in the
Middle East and other parts of the world. Curiously, they all appear on
the U.S. State Department Patterns of Global Terrorism – 2000
released on April 30, 2001. This is an annual report sent to Congress
that has been listing Cuba since 1993, see U.S. Cuba Policy Report,
April 30, 2001, page 9. Castro developed a
relationship with Saddam Hussein since both share a fondness for
bacteriological weapons. In a September 1997 article by Jonathan T.
Stride titled Who Will Check Out Fidel Castro’s New
Chemical/Biological Weapons Plant in East Havana?, Castro’s
chemical/biological weapons factories are exposed – probably based on
a Confidential Report translated from Spanish on February 1997. Also, we can find more
information about Castro’s involvement with bacteriological and
chemical warfare in Dr. Manuel Cereijo’s paper Castro: A Threat To
The Security Of The United States, dated October, 1997. In an
article in Spanish by Roberto Fabricio published by El Nuevo Herald on
June 20, 1999. And in an Executive Summary titled Is Castro Preparing
for a Gotterdammerun? by Ernesto F. Betancourt, September 9, 1999,
we can see the connection between the tyrants. In his summary
Betancourt says, "It has been widely commented that the CIA has
found that the genetic and bio-technology industry, one of Castro’s
pet projects, is nothing but a cover for developing biological weapons.
This industry is housed in a complex of buildings in the Miramar zone of
Havana, some of which are reported to have the usual security measures
associated with biological weapons development. It is this knowledge
that led Defense Secretary William Cohen in 1998 to caution the earlier
Pentagon report about Cuba not being any longer a military threat to the
U.S." In another paper by
Betancourt dated October 18, 1999, titled The Encephalitis Outbreak,
Hussein and Castro: A CIA/CDC Cover-Up?, he traced the possible
connection and cooperation between the two tyrants exporting viruses to
the U.S. Betancourt, among others, cites The New Yorker’s October
18-25, 1999 article by Richard Preston saying "a quotation made by
Saddam refers to a dossier about ‘details of his ultimate weapon,
developed in secret laboratories outside Iraq. Free of U.N. inspection,
the laboratories would develop the SV1417 strain of the West Nile virus
– capable of destroying 97 percent of life in an urban environment . .
..’ Now, where could such a research be undertaken?" Betancourt suggests a
few characteristics that will help pin point these "secret
laboratories outside Iraq." "It must have a technological
capability to undertake such research, a country friendly to Iraq and
hostile to the U.S., outside the reach of any U.N. inspection, a closed
society, where these activities can be free of press coverage; and
located within the reach of migratory birds. There is one place on earth
that meets those requirements: Castro’s Cuba. The research undertaken
in Cuba is precisely centered on developing virus strains suitable to be
inoculated to the many migratory birds that fly North-South in the Fall
and South-North in the Spring. It can be concluded that Cuba is the most
plausible candidate for the germ warfare research and development
activities referred to by Saddam Hussein in The New Yorker
article." This paper quotes John
Roehrig of the CDC saying, "it is not yet clear how the virus got
to New York, but it could be from bird migration or from virus-carrying
imported birds that infected the area’s mosquito population."
Citing details from others, Betancourt concludes, "How this virus
reached the U.S. is an epidemiological mystery, since it has never been
identified in North or South America. Castro has been for almost twenty
years engaged in the development of germ warfare capabilities as well as
in a delivery system using migratory birds to introduce epidemics into
the U.S. to be transmitted by mosquitoes." According to a former
researcher of the Cuban Zoo Institute who now lives in Switzerland,
Carlos Wotzkow, author of the 1998 book Natumaleza Cubana, we
learn on its page 65 that unfortunately, the Smithsonian Institution
collaborated with Castro by economically funding the study of migratory
birds along with the University of Pennsylvania. According to a
well-informed source wishing to remain anonymous, the following U.S.
institutions collaborated with information and gave funds to Cuba to
conduct the study of migratory birds. They are the Department of
Ornithology of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, The
Fish and Wildlife Service, the Nebraska Section of the Department of the
Interior, The Audubon Society and RARE, a Center for Tropical
Conservation, supported by the MacArthur Foundation. Let me clarify that
these U.S. institutions probably did not have any idea that the
information gained by Cuba was going to be used for the sinister purpose
of exporting diseases to the U.S. And sadly, American
tourists leave their money in Cuba ignoring that they are contributing
to the support of a terrorist regime that seeks their own destruction.
According to Castro’s own words, "his destiny" will be
"to wage a war against them" [the U.S.], as he wrote on
June 5, 1958 to his secretary, the late Celia Sanchez (available in
public records). The message is loud and clear, how naïve can we afford
to continue being in the U.S.? Radio Marti reported
last August 26, 2001, as well as other American newspapers, that the
West Nile virus in the U.S. has been spreading faster then expected.
Radio Marti reported cases in north Florida. Other newspapers reported
cases in New York, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Radio Marti reported
that Wotzkow says that "in 1980 Castro ordered the unleashing of a
biological war against the U.S." and quoted Dr. Luis Roberto
Henandez saying "Cuba’s laboratories identify and produce viruses
for migratory birds." Betancourt’s article published in Spanish
in Miami’s El Nuevo Herald appeared as the main source in Radio
Marti’s report. In addition,
Castro’s Cuba is a training ground and sanctuary for Basque terrorists
responsible for hundreds of deaths in Spain, terrorists from Ireland,
Colombia, Puerto Rico and other nationalities, hijackers,
drug-traffickers, outlaws, fugitive U.S. criminals, and a collection of
the scum of the earth (all U.S.-haters). Cuba, 90 miles from
the U.S., has two powerful spy stations in the outskirts of Havana. One
built and still updated and maintained by the former Soviet Union, and
another built not long ago by our Chinese "friends." Both of
these stations are actively engaged in collecting military, economic and
civilian information and are certainly sharing their findings with
terrorists worldwide. According to Dr.
Manuel Cereijo‘s 1997 paper, they have the capability "of
interrupting commercial and military computer communications in the
United States, in case of a confrontation with this country." Also,
Cereijo says that Cuba regularly develops computer viruses "with
the intent of using them to disrupt computer systems during time of war
or crisis." Many Cuban Americans in the U.S. have had their
computers damaged by made-in-Cuba viruses. Castro still keeps
sending his agents and spies to the U.S. His U.N. Cuban Mission in New
York and the Cuba Interests Section in Washington, D.C. are nothing but
nests of trained security agents posing as diplomats. Last April 2000,
in Washington, D.C., a press conference was broadcast by local FOX TV
protesting the Cuban "diplomats" attack of peaceful
demonstrators on U.S. soil. In it, Joe Carrollo, the Mayor of Miami,
revealed an intelligence report charging current Cuba Charge
d’Affairs, Fernando Remirez de Estenoz, as the person who introduced
bacteriological weapons to kill blacks by Cuban soldiers during the war
in Angola, Africa. With the end of Soviet
communism, the U.S. government and the American people thought that the
danger to this country was over. But it is not so for as long as there
are so many nations who literally hate our guts and are overcome with
envy for what this country is thanks to our freedom and democracy. Recently, this hatred
was clearly demonstrated by expelling the U.S. from the U.N. Commission
on Human Rights and by the shameless racist conduct of many nations
during the recent U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South
Africa. Among those attending that sham was Castro, one of the oldest
tyrants in the Western World, who violates all human rights and, as
documented by Jim Guirard’s in a recent article Behind the Mask --
A Fascist Fidel, practices racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia and
sexism. Castro also practices
apartheid and caused the deaths of over 100,000 in Cuba and thousands
abroad. As usual, Castro blasted and blamed the U.S. for all evil in the
world and his many admirers in the U.N. applauded him with gusto. For as long as this
unjust hatred for the U.S. persists and rogue nations, like Cuba, among
others, give sanctuary to international terrorists and collaborate by
providing training, intelligence, and logistic support, despicable and
unforgivable acts like the attack of September 11, 2001, will continue.
Do not get confused by the hypocritical messages of condolence sent by
Castro and many of our cowardly enemies who aid and give sanctuary to
terrorism and now fear the might of this nation and its people. It is time for America
to wake up to the realities surrounding us and realize that not all
cultures share our values. It is time for resolve and to go to the root
of the problems, which are a group of nations, run by tyrannies that are
unable to live and let live in a civilized way and in peace with the
rest of the planet. The choice is clear. Castro hasn’t (yet)
orchestrated a massive event causing the instant deaths of thousands of
Americans, but the effects of his actions – spread out over 42 years
– have probably affected even more. And are the tourists who help
support him and the media so anxious to give him the opportunity to
spread his word, now, officially (in the words of our President)
accomplices? © 2001 ABIP Agustin
Blazquez, Producer/Director of the documentaries COVERING
CUBA, COVERING CUBA 2: The Next Generation and the upcoming COVERING
CUBA 3: Elián |
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