MH/CHAOS

Author:Frank J. Rafalko
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2011-10-17T16:00:00+00:00

Cuba

Cuba is a police state with informant networks in every sphere of Cuban society, and its intelligence service monitors internal and external communications. Cuban intelligence begins its study of any foreigner planning to visit Cuba the minute the foreigner requests a visa. Anyone wishing to go to Cuba is seen as more sympathetic to the Cuban cause than others. Once on the island, Cuban intelligence has great leeway to attempt recruitment, because it is cheaper and there is greater operational control and security. The Cuban capabilities to provide training in subversion are great in relation to the size of their country. “Among the true Communist Parties, however, are a number—the most important being the North Vietnamese, the North Korean and the Cuban—that are actively engaged in revolutionary violence or assistance to terrorists.”51

The DGI had as its primary purpose the export of the revolution, therefore the Cubans have a desire to turn to their advantage any manifestation of dissent toward the established order in the free world, especially when directed against the United States. This entailed exposure of certain individuals, representing a broad spectrum of revolutionary-terrorist groups in the United States, and carefully staged meetings with leaders of international revolutionary movements brought to Cuba under the auspices of the African-Asian-Latin American People’s Solidarity Organization (AALAPSO), commonly known as the “Tricontinental.” However extensive the involvement of the DGI may have been in this and other operations, one needs to bear in mind the underlying factor of DGI subservience to the KGB.

The DGI has a capability for exploiting potential subversives through the Cuban Mission to the United Nations (CMUN). Within the Mission clandestine meetings with American radicals were held and funds, advice, and influence were dispensed. For example, a Cuban intelligence officer working through Cuba’s delegation to the UN became the control operative for Weather Underground’s leader, Mark Rudd. Cuban intelligence personnel were reported to have counseled Rudd and Jeff Jones concerning slogans to be used by SDS in their fall demonstrations.

Alberto Boza Hidalgo Gato, CMUN first secretary and Cuban intelligence officer, acted as an approving official for U.S. citizens traveling to Cuba. In addition, he was linked to individuals in black extremist and New Left organizations. In September 1968 a new first secretary and intelligence officer arrived at the Cuban Mission. In addition to his other duties, he “worked” in conjunction with Soviet intelligence. Hidalgo Gato and Lazaro Eddy Espinosa Bonet were declared persona non grata in 1968 because of their contact with radicals and explosives. There was highly placed speculation at the time that the case involved an alleged plot against President Nixon. Cuba had a demonstrated capability of exploiting international fronts and related conferences as a vehicle to meet U.S. radical students and New Leftists and to arrange for future contact with them. The Cuban publication of an English-language edition of the revolutionary magazine Tricontinental, organ of AALAPSO, made the Cuban doctrine on revolutionary struggle accessible to pro-Cuban elements in the United States. Cuban support for AALAPSO, headquartered in Havana, gave Cuba an existing international front capability for holding special conferences.

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