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Psychological Warfare Operations against Cuba
State
Department: US Claims to Help Cubans Communicate Globally 12/16/2009 Along
the Malecon
Plotting
Cuba's digital revolution 12/15/2009 Along the Malecon: "I
don't know if there are any specific regulations prohibiting smart phones that
are activated in such countries as Mexico. I would imagine that some U.S.
officials would love to flood Cuba with those, although the costs would high
because of roaming charges. Perhaps U.S. officials hope to distribute some other
kind of communication equipment. The U.S. government and its contractors have
managed to pass out hundreds of thousands of short-wave radios in Cuba over the
past decade, so it's not inconceivable that they could distribute mass
quantities of electronic equipment."
American
being held in high-security Cuban prison 12/15/2009 Miami
Herald: "The New York Times broke the story in a report Saturday that
quoted U.S. officials as saying the American arrived on the island on a Cuban
tourist visa, not an official or business visa, and had been handing out the
communications equipment ``on behalf of the Obama administration.'' [Carrying
out business activities under a tourist visa is illegal in many countries,
including the US.]
Contractor
arrest may ruffle Obama's Cuba overture 12/15/2009 Reuters: "Maryland-based
Development Alternatives Inc, which says it has a federal contract to support
"just and democratic governance in Cuba," described the American held
as a sub-contractor employed "to assist Cuban civil society
organizations". These Cuban dissident groups are termed
"mercenaries" and "traitors" by the Cuban government, which
has often accused the United States of supporting them openly and also covertly
in a bid to undermine communist rule on the Caribbean island."
La CIA utiliza
la USAID como fachada, confirma alto funcionario de la agencia estadounidense 12/14/2009 Aporrea: por
Eva Golinger
La
corrupción en la campaña mediática del imperio contra América Latina 12/14/2009 Cuba
periodistas: por Jean-Guy Allard - "Para alcanzar sus objetivos, la
VOA usará las instalaciones de producción de Radio y TV Martí lo que, según
el rotativo mafioso de Miami, ha alimentado "especulaciones de que las
estaciones Martí acabarán pasando a formar parte de la VOA". Radio y TV
Martí han sido sacudidos por varios escándalos de corrupción, en los últimos
años. Lo más divertido es que Alberto Mascaró, quien anunció la nueva
orientación de la VOA, es nada menos que el sobrino de la esposa de Pedro Roig,
director general de Radio y TV Martí, corporación famosa por dedicarse a
contratar a las amistades de sus "capos". Ex director de la
Interamerican Military Academy de Miami, Roig fue formado por la CIA en Fort
Benning al lado del terrorista internacional Luis Posada Carriles, como sicario
de la Operación 40, con vistas a la fracasada invasión de Playa Girón."
Statement
from DAI President and CEO Jim Boomgard Regarding Detention of Subcontractor in
Cuba 12/14/2009 DAI: "In 2008, DAI competed for
and was awarded a contract, the Cuba Democracy and Contingency Planning Program,
to help the U.S. Government implement activities in support of the rule of law
and human rights, political competition, and consensus building, and to
strengthen civil society in support of just and democratic governance in Cuba
(http://www.usaid.gov/locations/latin_america_caribbean/country/cuba/ )."
CIA
Agent Captured in Cuba 12/13/2009 Chavez Code: by Eva
Golinger - "DAI was contracted in June 2002 by USAID to manage a
multimillion dollar contract in Venezuela, just two months after the failed coup
d’etat against President Hugo Chávez. Prior to this date, USAID had no
operations in Venezuela, not even an office in the Embassy. DAI was charged with
opening the Office for Transition Initiatives (OTI), a specialized branch of
USAID that manages large quantities of liquid funds destined for organizations
and political parties favorable to Washington in countries of strategic interest
that are undergoing political crises. The first contract between USAID and DAI
for its Venezuela operations authorized $10 million for a two year period. DAI
opened its doors in the Wall Street of Caracas, El Rosal, in August 2002, and
began to immediately fund the same groups that just months earlier had executed
- unsuccessfully – the coup against President Chávez. The USAID/DAI funds in
Venezuela were distributed to organizations such as Fedecámaras and the
Confederación de Trabajadores Venezolanos (CTV), two of the principal entities
that had led the coup in April 2002 and that later headed another attempt to
oust Chávez by imposing an economic sabotage and oil industry strike that
crippled the nation’s economy. One contract between DAI and these
organizations, dated December 2002, awarded more than $10,000 to help design
radio and television propaganda against President Chávez. During that time
period, Venezuela experienced one of the most viscious media wars in history.
Private television and radio stations, together with print media, devoted
non-stop programming to opposition propaganda for 64 days, 24 hours a day."
Action
against Cuba 12/13/2009 ZZ's Blog: "While The New
York Times understates dramatically both the funding and government dependence
of DAI, it does reveal an interesting aspect of the story. The detainment
occurred on December 5 with no public disclosure by the Cuban government. The
fact that US officials felt compelled to announce the detainment, confessing the
detainee’s activities and his employment, suggests that there will likely be
more exposed in the days to come."
Terrorism
and Civil Society - The Instruments of US Policy in Cuba 12/12/2009 Counterpunch: by
Philip Agee, former CIA officer, published 8/2003 - "Actually the new
program was not really new. Since its founding in 1947, the CIA had been deeply
involved in secretly funding and manipulating foreign non-governmental voluntary
organizations. These vast operations circled the globe and were targeted at
political parties, trade unions and businessmen's associations, youth and
student organizations, women's groups, civic organizations, religious
communities, professional, intellectual and cultural societies, and the public
information media. The network functioned at local, national, regional and
global levels. Media operations, for example, were underway continuously in
practically every country, wherein the CIA would pay journalists to publish its
materials as if they were the journalists' own."
US
Contractor Seized 12/12/2009 NYT: "A U.S.
government contract worker, who was distributing cell phones, laptops and other
communications equipment in Cuba on behalf of the Obama administration, has been
detained by authorities here, U.S. officials said yesterday. The officials said
the contractor, who works for a company based in the Washington suburbs, was
detained Dec. 5. They said the United States Interests Section in Havana was
awaiting Cuba's response to a request for consular access to the man, who was
not identified. The detention and the mysterious circumstances surrounding it
threaten to reignite tensions between the countries at a time when both had
promised to open new channels of engagement. U.S. officials said they were
encouraged that the Cubans had not publicized the detention, and they said they
were hopeful that he might be quietly released."
Entregan a
bloguera medalla hecha “con plata de la dictadura de Batista” 12/9/2009 Aporrea: por
Jean-Guy Allard - "Según los organizadores del “acto”, la condecoración
es compuesta “por un peso de plata de los que circulaban” en los tiempos de
la dictadura sanguinaria de Fulgencio Batista. Los fundadores del Comité
paramilitar de la FNCA y que hoy dirigen el CLC, entre los cuales Diego Suarez,
Alberto Hernández Alberto Hernández y Ninoska Pérez-Castellón (esposa del
terrorista Roberto Martin Pérez, encabezaron las ágapes entrecortadas de
discursos caracterizados por su fanatismo de extrema derecha. El comité
paramilitar de la FNCA sufragó a Posada Carriles durante sus campañas de
terror, en 1997, en territorio cubano y orientaron la compra de un millonario
arsenal de armas por Antonio “Toñin” Llama, destinado a acciones
terroristas de gran envergadura."
Millions
Spent Subverting 'Enemies,' Stifling Dissent 2/15/2001 Wisdom
Fund: "Consider the U.S. Central Information Agency's disinformation
program begun late in the 1940s and early 1950s. This program eventually
involved most of the major private institutions in American life (John Harwood,
"O What a Tangled Web the CIA Wove," Washington Post, February 26,
1967). "It was not enough for the United States to arm its allies, to
strengthen government institutions, or to finance the industrial establishment
through economic and military programs," wrote Mr. Harwood.
"Intellectuals, students, educators, trade unionists, journalists and
professional men had to be recruited directly through their private
organizations."
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