by Agustin Blazquez with the
collaboration of Jaums Sutton
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