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Castro brothers helped KGB, files show
By Bill Gertz The Washington Times
Published October 6, 2005
Soviet intelligence files made public in a new book show that American travelers to Cuba helped KGB agents obtain identity documents and that Fidel Castro and his brother worked with the spy agency five years before taking power in the 1959 revolution.
New details of Moscow's intelligence work in Cuba were disclosed by Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist who defected to Britain in 1992.
According to the book, Russian KGB officer Nikolai Leonov became "firm friends," with Mr. Castro's younger brother Raul in Prague in 1953 and then worked together with Fidel from 1956 and after he took power in 1959. The book, the second volume of what is known as the Mitrokhin archive, also reveals how Moscow sought to indirectly defeat the United States during the Cold War through large-scale "disinformation" and influence operations in the developing world.
"The KGB really believed they could win the Cold War in the Third World," said Christopher Andrew, a Cambridge history professor and co-author of the new book, "The World Was Going Our Way." Mr. Mitrokhin died last year.
The information provided by Mr. Mitrokhin was considered an intelligence bonanza and identified hundreds of KGB officers, agents and operations. Among the thousands of classified KGB files provided by Mr. Mitrokhin were documents related to Americans who traveled to Cuba beginning in 1969 as part of the pro-Castro Venceremos Brigade.
The KGB helped set up Cuba's DGI intelligence service, which imposed draconian controls on Cuban society and also arranged for the visits of Americans.
The book reveals that Fidel Castro publicly supported the American activists but privately "looked askance at the presence of gay and women's liberation movements among his American New Left supporters," the book stated.
According to the authors, the DGI complained to its KGB counterparts that "the New Left brigadistas were homosexuals and drug addicts." "Venceremos gays, the DGI bizarrely reported, saw 'the possibility of using homosexuality to bring about the physical degeneration of American imperialism,' " the authors write, quoting the Cuban memo to Moscow. "The Brigade however, proved a valuable source of U.S. identity documents for use in [undercover] intelligence operations," the authors said, noting that the American travelers were "an important propaganda asset." A spokesman for the Venceremos Brigade, based in New Jersey, could not be reached for comment.
In Iraq, the KGB also sought unsuccessfully to recruit Saddam Hussein who was fascinated with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and had all of Stalin's writings translated into Arabic. The KGB also suppled Saddam with military intelligence about U.S. war plans during the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
Other KGB operations outlined in the book include:
•The recruitment of Palestinian terrorists and providing advice to terrorists involved in kidnappings and assassinations.
•The planting of agents inside the Syrian intelligence service that allowed Syria to become a Soviet ally in the Middle East.
•The backing of Sandinista guerrillas in Nicaragua.
•Covert funding of Indian political parties and newspapers, including Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's government and party.
Copyright © 2005 News World Communications, Inc. All rights reserved.
Posted in its enterity.
Castro brothers helped KGB, files show
By Bill Gertz The Washington Times
Published October 6, 2005
Soviet intelligence files made public in a new book show that American travelers to Cuba helped KGB agents obtain identity documents and that Fidel Castro and his brother worked with the spy agency five years before taking power in the 1959 revolution.
New details of Moscow's intelligence work in Cuba were disclosed by Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist who defected to Britain in 1992.
According to the book, Russian KGB officer Nikolai Leonov became "firm friends," with Mr. Castro's younger brother Raul in Prague in 1953 and then worked together with Fidel from 1956 and after he took power in 1959. The book, the second volume of what is known as the Mitrokhin archive, also reveals how Moscow sought to indirectly defeat the United States during the Cold War through large-scale "disinformation" and influence operations in the developing world.
"The KGB really believed they could win the Cold War in the Third World," said Christopher Andrew, a Cambridge history professor and co-author of the new book, "The World Was Going Our Way." Mr. Mitrokhin died last year.
The information provided by Mr. Mitrokhin was considered an intelligence bonanza and identified hundreds of KGB officers, agents and operations. Among the thousands of classified KGB files provided by Mr. Mitrokhin were documents related to Americans who traveled to Cuba beginning in 1969 as part of the pro-Castro Venceremos Brigade.
The KGB helped set up Cuba's DGI intelligence service, which imposed draconian controls on Cuban society and also arranged for the visits of Americans.
The book reveals that Fidel Castro publicly supported the American activists but privately "looked askance at the presence of gay and women's liberation movements among his American New Left supporters," the book stated.
According to the authors, the DGI complained to its KGB counterparts that "the New Left brigadistas were homosexuals and drug addicts." "Venceremos gays, the DGI bizarrely reported, saw 'the possibility of using homosexuality to bring about the physical degeneration of American imperialism,' " the authors write, quoting the Cuban memo to Moscow. "The Brigade however, proved a valuable source of U.S. identity documents for use in [undercover] intelligence operations," the authors said, noting that the American travelers were "an important propaganda asset." A spokesman for the Venceremos Brigade, based in New Jersey, could not be reached for comment.
In Iraq, the KGB also sought unsuccessfully to recruit Saddam Hussein who was fascinated with Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and had all of Stalin's writings translated into Arabic. The KGB also suppled Saddam with military intelligence about U.S. war plans during the 1991 Persian Gulf war.
Other KGB operations outlined in the book include:
•The recruitment of Palestinian terrorists and providing advice to terrorists involved in kidnappings and assassinations.
•The planting of agents inside the Syrian intelligence service that allowed Syria to become a Soviet ally in the Middle East.
•The backing of Sandinista guerrillas in Nicaragua.
•Covert funding of Indian political parties and newspapers, including Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's government and party.
Copyright © 2005 News World Communications, Inc. All rights reserved.
3 Comments:
Classic Ziva punch to the face of the lefties! The information contained in that article has a renewed importance in these days. My take on this: kagasstro is still playing by the old book. There are orders which are still valid and the chain of command is evidently active, now they are working underground, for which they were prepared from day one. The long tentacles of communism and terrorism are still moving. If we don't chop them off we will be in danger. The situation will keep on boiling underground until explosion if we don't act swiftly and take kagasstro (and his followers) out of the picture as soon as possible.
There is an insidious "old guard" of Soviet communists that - just as the Nazis before them - packed up and hid away. Now, encumbered by worries about economy, trips to outer space propaganda or Afghan rebellion are hard at work working on THAT most important of objectives.
BURYING THE USA!
It will be interesting to eventually find out, what mortal goodies made it to Kuba after the fall of the Soviet block what "talent" came along on THAT exodus and what has filtered to Venezuela. ‘Cause you just KNOW that the election recall electronic slight of hand was NOT done by Chavez programmers.
They have been planting people in Cuba and South America since BEFORE the end of WWII. The commies and the nazis were allies at some point, and the only thing that spoiled the alliance was the fight for Poland. Mussolini wanted Cuba as his part of the pie, he was devoted to make Cuba the first fascist stronghold in the Americas, why? because of the proximity to the US. kagasstro was an admirer of both il Duce and Der Fuhrer. So do your math. He went with whoever survived of that team, the commies. The commies and the nazis are natural allies, and they have taken the moors under their wings more than once. In South America we have a great conspiracy boiling under the surface. Old Nazis and old Commies and their successors, international terrorists and local hotheads, all of them under the influence of the asshole that brings them together, kagasstro. But again, we go with the bait (Iraq) send all of our men there and leave the backyard unguarded!!!! I certainly hope that somebody is taking note and checking on what's cooking in South America.... As you say, KC, those programmers were not native to Venezuela, the glitch was very sophisticated in nature, and I heard that the encryption used for the communications between Havana and Caracas was a brand new thing. Go figure.
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