Intense subversive activity by new head of the U.S. Interests Section

THE United States Interests Section in Havana is distributing hundreds of propaganda items from a mercenary organization in Miami led by a former Cuban-born U.S. military officer, which are arriving in Cuba via diplomatic pouch, in violation of all international regulations.

"Now it’s not only videos, televisions, radios, cameras..." said Rogelio Polanco, editor of the daily Juventud Rebelde, displaying the "new goodies bag" of the "Plan Bush perks" during the Roundtable program on Cuban television. The cloth bag contains an assortment of objects bearing the word "CAMBIO" (Change).

"Regime change, like what they did in Afghanistan and what they’re doing in Iraq, based on invasion, aggression, torture and violations of human rights," the journalist emphasized.

The white "goodies bag," distributed by the dozen to paid informants of the U.S. officials, contains a wallet – "supposedly to hold their Plan Bush money" – a decal, hand-fan, a deck of cards, a bracelet, a T-shirt and ... a baseball.

The "goodies bag" also bears the logo "Democracy Support Group" in Spanish – formerly known as "Dissidence Support Group," one of the main beneficiaries of USAID funds, which has its offices at 1000 Ponce de Leon Boulevard, Suite 312, Coral Gable, Florida 33134.

Frank Hernández Trujillo is the owner of GAD, according to its initials in Spanish. He is a buddy of USAID official Adolfo Franco, and a former U.S. military officer who, from 1988 until April 2005, raked in the colossal sum of $4.6 million in U.S. taxpayers’ money to carry out his propagandistic activities.

Regarding the illegal entry into Cuba of the "Plan Bush perks," the journalist gave a concrete example of the pouch on February 16, 2005, which arrived at 4:20 on flight TWN9211 "with cargo under 12 luggage tickets corresponding to cargo manifest No. 1727."

"Customs then counted 21 packages under luggage ticket No. 32A00440112-2 as diplomatic cargo with the U.S. Interests Section as its destination..."

SHISH-KEBABS, PASTRIES, ROLLS AND STUFFED FRITTERS

After meeting with the capos of the Cuban-American mafia in Miami – including several individuals with proven terrorist records – during a visit to southern Florida, the new U.S. Interests Section (USIS) chief in Havana, Michael Parmly, began to stage a series of provocative shows using the same troupe of mercenaries contracted by his predecessor, James Cason, as the main stars.

The Roundtable program on December 20, Part I of two episodes, provided a detailed description of subversive activities carried out by Parmly over recent months.

Reinaldo Taladrid, a Cuban Television reporter, explained how on December 10, International Human Rights Day, the U.S. delegation cited its mercenaries "to a corner in Miramar" – a residential neighborhood in Havana – where a van picked them up to take them to Michael Parmly’s official residence.

Once they were there, at about 5 p.m, the event, lasting for one hour and 45 minutes, began. It included a session of exchange with members of the foreign press who responded to the grotesque meeting.

After distributing a number of items, including a speech by George W. Bush and a copy of El Nuevo Herald newspaper, Parmly addressed those present.

Nevertheless, it was the enormous buffet that was most gripping for the odd assortment of participants, including Czech, Romanian, Peruvian and Mexican diplomats.

Shish-kebabs, sautéed shrimp, thyme and parsley butter, tuna patties, stuffed chicken rolls, seafood cocktail, coconut balls, basil-and-cream-cheese balls, French éclairs, and "an abundant volume of all types of beverages," defined the culminating moment of that reception, which was, however, interrupted when they returned to the van.

AFTER LIEUTENANT CASON, SERGEANT PARMLY

"After Lieutenant Cason we have Sergeant Parmly," said Lazaro Barredo, editor of Granma daily newspaper, in reference to James Cason, the previous head of the U.S. Interests Section and his successor.

Noting that during his speech Parmly compared Cuba’s revolutionary forces to the fascist "brownshirts" and the Ku Klux Klan, Barredo called the phrase "an expression of disrespect toward the Cuban people."

"It is an outrageous comparison," commented moderator Randy Alonso. "Comparing revolutionary forces with the worst of fascism and the worst of U.S. racism... I think that it is one of the most vulgar and hurtful sentences every uttered against the Cuban people."

Barredo added, "This man uses the date of December 10 to tell the Cuban people what human rights are... Those people who are violating human rights in Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo, and in the United States itself with the Patriot Act, as has just been announced with the number of prisoners in their jails and with that unbelievable recent application of the death penalty."

Barredo qualified the representation led by Parmly as an "office for espionage, for subversion, for everything, except for diplomatic work." (Jean Guy Allard) •