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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 07 Num. 38
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 7 Num. 38
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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RADIO HAVANA
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Skolnick and I were talking about shortwave radio and he had
suggested, since I speak Spanish, that I tune in Radio Havana and
hear their perspective on the downing of the "Brothers to the
Rescue" plane. As fate would have it, I was wandering the
frequencies and I found Radio Havana -- *in* *English*. I don't
know when that happened, but Radio Havana now broadcasts in
English at 6000 KHz, 9820 KHz, and 9830 KHz. I was receiving them
between 7 and 8 p.m. Central Standard Time.
According to Radio Havana, U.S. authorities had been repeatedly
notified regarding the intrusions into their air space by
"Brothers to the Rescue" (BTR) planes -- yet did nothing. The
unfortunate result, the downing of the BTR plane, is connected by
the Cubans to what they call Miami's virulent "anti-Cuban Mafia"
and efforts to push through the "Helms-Burton Bill". The word
"conspiracy" was actually used, which was unusual to hear it
being freely bandied about over their air waves without any
snickering -- as is the norm here in the U.S.
Also noted was that a group called "Pastors for Peace" has begun
a "fast for life", presumably in protest over U.S. promoted
isolationist policies against Cuba. You wouldn't know it from our
own "news" reports, but demonstrations have been held in numerous
cities throughout the U.S., and indeed throughout the world,
protesting "our" government's policy toward Cuba. According to
Radio Havana, "virtually every country in the world is calling on
the Cuban embargo to end."
Radio Havana further opines that the recent brouhaha between us
and Cuba is nothing more, at bottom, than "posturing for
elections."
Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Roberto Robeina(?) said as follows
in an address delivered, apparently today (March 6, 1996), to the
United Nations [excerpts only]:
It has even been said that the Brothers to the Rescue
organization had a humanitarian character. The General
Assembly should know that that gang, which was established in
1991 and was officially registered as a non-profit
organization, free of political interests, is indeed financed
with obscure money from the extremist Mafias of Miami.
It would be interesting to investigate the links between the
Cuban-American Foundation and that group, or to go deeper,
into the intense efforts carried out by Representative Ileana
Ros, so that the U.S. Defense Department donated Brothers to
the Rescue (or sold them at a low price) three of the planes
they used against Cuba. That organization's key figure, Jose
Basulto(sp?), is well-known by Cuba. He was recruited by the
Central Intelligence Agency, got his training in Panama and
Guatemala, and infiltrated into Cuba both before, and after,
the Bay of Pigs invasion. In 1963, he was infiltrated into
Cuba as the radio operator of a terrorist commando group, and
he worked for the CIA in Brazil, in 1966. The Cessna 337 he
personally uses in his anti-Cuba errors bears a big "2506"
number -- after the Bay of Pigs invasion, of course, known as
the "2506 Brigade".
This is the background of an individual who is now being
portrayed as a champion of humanitarian causes.
With the signing by Cuba and the United States of immigration
agreements that put an end to Cuban illegal immigration into
the United States, that organization's [Brothers to the
Rescue's] apparent objective of promoting that illegal
immigration ceased to exist. This is how orchestrating,
planning, and conducting terrorist acts have become their
sole and definitive purpose. In their hostile, dangerous
actions against Cuba they have used twin-tail Cessna planes
of a military design, used by the U.S. Air Force in
exploration and combat missions during the Viet Nam War.
Anyone with any doubts about it can see the Miami Herald's
July 19th, 1992 edition where a Brothers to the Rescue plane
is shown with the "USAF" (or "United States Air Force")
symbol.
This gang's aggressive plans have left no room for doubt that
it is a paramilitary, terrorist organization engaged in an
open war against Cuba.
Would the United States have tolerated provocations like the
ones Cuba has had to tolerate? Would U.S. authorities allow
planes from Cuba or any other country to illegally enter U.S.
air space and drop subversive leaflets? What would have
happened if civilian airplanes from Cuba had disobeyed
instructions of U.S. air controllers regarding air traffic?
Could Cuban civilian aircraft have been allowed to enter air
zones of U.S. military bases like Andrews, or Fort Meade,
near Washington? And how would U.S. public opinion have
reacted to such bravado and impunity of provocateurs like
these? Well, the answer is not difficult to imagine. The
United States would *not* have allowed this -- as a U.S.
Defense Department spokesperson recently acknowledged when
asked by journalists.
Suspicious enough, these events have one common point: the
passing, in the U.S. Congress, of the infamous Helms-Burton
Bill. Its ultimate aim is to make the world implement a
blockade against Cuba following more than 35 years of failure
of an economic and financial U.S. blockade that this General
Assembly has condemned for 4 consecutive years. Evidently,
the whole issue has been a conspiracy by the Cuban-American
ultra right, in connivance with the most extremist figures in
the U.S. Congress; a conspiracy not only against Cuba, but
also against the very U.S. administration, so as to drag it
into serious contradiction, and problems of even a warlike
nature, in the middle of a fierce electoral fight. The first
consequence would be, at least, to see the criminal Helms-
Burton Bill finally approved. The government of the United
States, which is now taking measures against Cuba, should
understand that these provocations are also aimed against it.
The U.S. government's decision to support that bill is, in
fact, an open challenge to the overwhelming condemnation of
the blockade against Cuba by this assembly.
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