Posted on 02/18/2005 2:58:04 AM PST by SmithPatterson
Captive of Castro By Sherrie Gossett | February 18, 2005 "The Cuban government installed what somebody described as a speaker phone" in the father's home in Cuba so that Cuban government agents could coach him on what to say. Elian Gonzalez's name is back in the news since a new trial related to the custody drama got underway in Miami the last week of January. He was the Cuban boy who came to America when his mother died to give him freedom.
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
"I came up with the theory that what good are all the prisons going to be 20 years from now if the child doesn't understand reward or punishment and hasn't developed a conscience," Reno said. "What good are educational opportunities going to be if a child does not have the foundation of learning?"
http://www.greeleytrib.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050208/NEWS/102080047
I wonder what she taught the little guy with her storm troopers.
If this is true, and it can be shown that Doris Meissner had the memo destroyed, as alledged, all kinds of federal crimes were committed in order to kowtow to Castro. Nice if we could come up with some hard evidence.
If this is true, lots of people should be in jail for this.
1990s late : (CUBA SHARES INTELLIGENCE INFO ON US MILITARY WITH SADDAM HUSSEIN'S IRAQ AS PART OF COVERT OIL DEAL) ... Cuban intelligence, which is known to have extensive "coverage" of U.S. military bases, supplied information to Saddam's intelligence service on the movement of troops and other military activities. The intelligence ties are believed to be an offshoot of Cuba's covert oil-purchasing arrangement with Iraq under Saddam. Those deals have been under way since the late 1990s and involve oil tankers that were sent to Mexico. The oil then was pumped from the tankers to smaller boats for delivery to Cuba. ....- "Iraq-Cuba axis (Gertz News!)," by Bill Gertz, The Washington Times, 01.23.04
APRIL 6 1995 : (CUBAN DIPLOMATS ASSAULT ON NY COPS CASE) A State Department attempt to have two Cuban diplomats tried for assaulting NY policemen is thwarted after Cuba rejects a U.S. request for waivers of diplomatic immunity. Department spokesman David Johnson says Cuban action means the diplomats will be asked to leave the country
OCTOBER 1995 : (CAMPAIGN FINANCING : CONTROVERSIAL WHITE HOUSE COFFEE ATTENDED BY VERBLE OF SOON TO BE OF "ELIAN FAME" , AND SOON-TO-BE INTERNATIONAL FUGITIVE ROGER TAMRAZ, AN OIL FINANCIER) Mrs. Verble herself is no stranger to the Democratic Party. She attended an October 1995 White House coffee with Mr. Gore, DNC Chairman Donald L. Fowler, DNC Finance Chairman Marvin S.Rosen, and oil financier Roger Tamraz, now an international fugitive who donated thousands of dollars to the DNC. - "Elian's flight Arranger Linked to Hillary," by Jerry Seper, The Washington Times, June 30, 2000
NOVEMBER 9, 1995 : (CLINTON/DNC CAMPAIGN FUNDING : CUBAN-AMERICAN VERBLE ACTS AS INTERMEDIARY IN DRUG SMUGGLER CABRERA'S DONATION TO THE DNC) Mrs. [Vivian Mannerud] Verble, a Cuban-American, served as the fund-raising intermediary between [cocaine smuggler Jorge "Gordito"] Cabrera and the Democratic National Committee in 1995. After giving $20,000 to the DNC, cabrera attended a 1995 White House Christmas Party with President Clinton, where he had his picture taken with the first lady. He also attended a fund-raiser in Miami in December 1995, where he was photographed with Vice President Al Gore. The Cuban government would [later] pay for Elian Gonzalez's chartered flight to Havana through a Miami firm headed by a woman whose $22,000 donation to Hillary rodham Clinton's Senate Campaign was returned when it was learned the woman had ties to a convicted drug smuggler. Vivian Mannerud Verble heads a Miami-based firm known as Airline Brokers Company, Inc., which arranged all of the chartered flights to and from Havana involving Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, his grandmothers, and other Cubans. Mrs. verble has been linked to convicted drug trafficker Jorge "Gordito" Cabrera, a Cuban-born US citizen sentenced to 19 years in a Florida prison and fined $1.5 million for his conviction in the transportation of 6,000 pounds of cocaine into the United States. - "Elian's flight Arranger Linked to Hillary," by Jerry Seper, The Washington Times, June 30, 2000
JANUARY 1996 : (CUBAN DRUG SMUGGLER & CLINTON/DNC DONOR CABRERA IS ARRESTED : SEE ELIAN CASE) Cabrera was arrested in January 1996, a month after the White House party [he attended] by undercover detectives who confiscated cocaine, $50,000 in cash, several boxes of illegal Cuban cigars, and photos of Cabrera with Cuban President Fidel Castro. He was indicted in 1983 by a federal grand jury in Miami on racketeering and drug charges and charged in 1988 with managing a continuing narcotics operation. In both cases, he pleades guilty to lesser charges- conspiracy to bribe a witness and income-tax evasion. According to Federal election records, Cabrera gave money to the DNC on November 9, 1995, and was invited a month later to a political fundraiser attended by Mr. Gore in Miami and a pre-Christmas event at the White House. .- "Elian's flight Arranger Linked to Hillary," by Jerry Seper, The Washington Times, June 30, 2000
OCTOBER 1996 : (US UNDERCOVER AGENT ARRIVES IN CUBA; BUT THE AGENT WAS BETRAYED BY CUBAN SPY MONTES AND CUBA'S INTELLIGENCE SERVICE WAS WAITING FOR THE AGENT WITH 'OPEN ARMS')
DECEMBER 1996 : (ATLANTIC OCEAN : US WAR GAMES : CUBAN SPY MONTES WOULD PROVIDE CUBA INTEL ABOUT THESE GAMES) - "Defiant U.S. intelligence analyst sentenced to 25 Years for spying," By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer , Wed Oct 16, 5:11 PM ET
1997 - ? : (FL : FREDY BARRAGAN IS INS SUPERVISOR AT MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT; WOULD LATER BE ARRESTED ALONG WITH HIS WIFE KATHERINE & SISTER-IN-LAW ANDRIOLI IN ALIEN-SMUGGLING CONSPIRACY) Fredy Barragan, an Immigration and Naturalization Service supervisor at Miami International Airport since 1997, was held on $200,000 bond on charges that carry a possible 15-year prison sentence. His wife Katherine and his sister-in-law Monica Andrioli were charged with him in an alleged alien-smuggling conspiracy. The indictment, unsealed Friday, outlines dates but has few details. - "INS Supervisor Accused of Taking Bribe to Admit Aliens ," AP
1998 : (CUBAN SPY/DIA ANALYST ANA BELEN MONTES DRAFTS A REPORT THAT CUBA'S MILITARY POSED NO THREAT TO THE US; THE REPORT IS VERY POPULAR AMONG THOSE WHO WANT TO DROP THE EMBARGO) In 1998, she played an important role in drafting a widely cited analysis that found that Cuba's much diminished military posed no strategic threat to the United States. - "Analyst at Pentagon arrested on charges of spying for Havana / FBI says espionage goes back 5 years ," By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS , New York Times , Sept. 29, 2001, 11:53PM
SEPTEMBER 2001 after the 911 attacks but before her arrest : WASHINGTON -- A few days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, Ana Belen Montes, a top Defense Department intelligence analyst, sent an e-mail note to an old friend saying she was all right and had not known anyone who died at the Pentagon. "I could see the Pentagon burning from my office," she wrote. "Nonetheless, it pales next to the World Trade Center. Dark days ahead. So much hate and self-righteousness." She was warm and funny, friends said, and seemed apolitical, even back in college. Her remark about "self-righteousness" was as ideologically pointed as she had ever been, said Lisa Huber, who had attended the University of Virginia with Montes and received the e-mail message. "I can't picture her being involved in something like this," said Huber, a Louisville, Ky., resident who has seen Montes at least twice a year since their college days. "It goes against everything I know about her. She has a lot of integrity." - "Analyst at Pentagon arrested on charges of spying for Havana / FBI says espionage goes back 5 years ," By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS , New York Times , Sept. 29, 2001, 11:53PM
SEPTEMBER 21, 2001 : (CUBAN SPY/DIA ANALYST MONTES ARRESTED) She was arrested Sept. 21, 2001. - "Defiant U.S. intelligence analyst sentenced to 25 Years for spying," by TED BRIDIS, AP, via yahoo.com , October 16, 2002
* Vivian Mannerud Verble : a Miami-based Cuban-American businesswomen and prominent Democratic fundraiser. Vivian Mannerud Verble is the owner of Miami's Airline Brokers Co. She has a business interest in running authorized flights back and forth from Cuba, and once was a significant fundraiser for the Democratic Party. Vivian and her husband Marvin Verble rank eighth on the list, having given more than $173,000 since 1993, all to Democrats.- "The Democrats’ drug running links," by Gerard Jackson , The New Australian News with Commentary, Friday 1 June 2001 Donated to Sen. John Kerry, Sen. Ted Kennedy
* Jorge Cabrera. : Cabrera is a convicted drug runner with connections to the Castro regime. Also known but not made public is that Cabrera was cooperating in 1995 with Castro’s DGI (Direccion General de Inteligencia or the General Directorate of Intelligence). The DGI was formed along the lines of the KGB and was once under the control of KGB General Viktor Simenov. Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union the DGI maintains close links with Russian and Chinese intelligence services. - "The Democrats’ drug running links," by Gerard Jackson , The New Australian News with Commentary, Friday 1 June 2001
* Senator John Kerry : Massachussetts senator. Accepted campaign funds from Vivian Mannerud, a Democratic campaign donor linked to cocaine trafficker Jorge Cabrera. Even when other Democrats returned such donations, he opted to keep them. Mannerud hosted an $18,000 Kerry fund-raiser, gave $1,000 in donations and arranged foreign travel for Kerry's staff as recently as April 2000. Though Kerry's advisors warned him that Mannerud's drug connection could prove troublesome, Kerry wasn't swayed. "We accept her word she had no knowledge of Mr. Cabrera's illicit activities," the Herald quoted Kerry spokesman David Wade as saying.- Boston Herald
* Jerome Berlin, a lawyer who was indicted in 1990, and later acquitted, of federal conspiracy charges of bribing public officials. He hosted a fund-raising dinner on December 3, 1995? in Coral Gables, FL at his home, which was also attended by Ms. Mannerud, Marvin S. Rosen and Cabrera..
* Marvin S. Rosen, finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Attended a fund-raising dinner on December 3, 1995? in Coral Gables, FL at Jerome Berlin's home, which was also attneded by Ms. Mannerud, Jerome Berlin, and Cabrera...
Miami businessman Jerome Berlin, once described as the country's most powerful Democratic fundraisers, died in a murder-suicide this morning at the Signature Grand, the huge and popular Davie banquet hall in Davie that he owned with partner Michael Pecora. Police say Pecora is the other person found dead in a second floor office of the hall. An employee reported hearing a loud argument, then three gunshots behind the locked door. The shooting occurred following a loud argument while hundreds of public school students ate lunch one floor below. Police broke in and found two white males -- a part of the catering hall's upper management -- on the floor. The shooting occurred during an event where eighth-graders from Broward public schools were learning more about African tradition at an African Heritage Forum. The children, who were eating lunch on the first floor, were not evacuated. It was unclear whether the children knew what was going on above them. ...
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Great article, and impressive research on all this.
What did you use to get all this information?
It came from Accuracy in Media--a conservative media watchdog group. Their website is www.aim.org
Thank you sir!
Is there a prohibition against linking to them at this website?
I don't know. I guess you could check their website.
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