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."
