Agustin Blazquez with the collaboration of Jaums Sutton.
Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2001. NewsMax.com
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." |