| CASTRO AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM Por Agustín Blázquez
and Jaums Sutton
NewsMaxCA
Colaboración:
Paul Echaniz
La Nueva Cuba
September 20, 2001
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, 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 warmonger/U.S.-hating
tyrants such as 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's "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, Sept. 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 biotechnology 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, Washington, D.C.
and Georgia. 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 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 more than
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,
such as 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 Sept. 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 is producer/director of the documentaries "Covering
Cuba," "Covering Cuba 2: The Next Generation," "Covering Cuba 3:
Elian."
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