BACKGROUND MATERIALS
Items here will cover the background and context
for the threats to Cuba today.
 Funding
of USAID's Cuba Program, March
2003
"GOAL: Promote
Rapid, Peaceful Transition to Democracy in Cuba, Helping Develop
Civil Society" Check out the goals of these programs
and decide for yourself what sort of democracy and peace they allegedly
seek.
Statement
from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 13, 2003
Cuba rejects the escalation of U.S. government aggression
towards their country, calling the expelling of 14 Cuban diplomats "an
irrational act of revenge on Cuba by the U.S. government."
US Operations
against Cuba background paper - (PDF
Version)
This is our paper on the relevant terrorist, propaganda and
financial interference led by operatives of the US government that
have been directed at destabilizing and violating the sovereignty
of Cuba.
(Secret memo exposes
U.S. hypocrisy!) UPDATE
ON THE CUBAN REFUGEE PROGRAM, from the US Interests Section in Cuba,
Jan. 1994.
Migration Crisis
Background paper - (PDF
Version)
This is a guide to the recent (up to June, 2003) events leading
up to the current crisis.
A Fatidic*
Day in Cuba's Convulsive History - The Historic Struggle
An excellent report by Alberto
N. Jones on the historical struggle of Cuba to obtain
independence and resist US imperialism, from the earliest struggles
to now. Dr. Jones is the President of the Caribbean
American Children Foundation, an organization that fosters
bonds of friendship and support with the Afro-Caribbean English
speaking Communities of Cuba. He is also a member of the Board
of Directors of the Cuban American
Alliance Education Fund.
* FATIDIC adjective: Of or relating
to the foretelling of events by or as if by supernatural means: augural,
divinatory, fatidical, mantic, oracular, prophetic, sibylline, vatic,
vatical, vaticinal, visionary.
Operation
Northwoods - The 1962 Secret Plan for War on Cuba: (See Douglas'
detailed article)
The US Joint Chiefs of Staff secretly proposed to create a pretext for
war on Cuba by launching terrorist attacks on US and Cuban citizens and
blame it on Cuba. The documents obtained under a FOI request are now
on the internet. As GWU's National Security Archive reports:
In his new exposé of the National Security Agency entitled
Body of Secrets, author James Bamford highlights a set of proposals
on Cuba by the Joint Chiefs of Staff code named OPERATION
NORTHWOODS. This document, titled “Justification for U.S.
Military Intervention in Cuba” was provided by the JCS to Secretary
of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962, as the key component
of Northwoods. Written in response to a request from the Chief of the
Cuba Project, Col. Edward Lansdale, the Top Secret memorandum describes
U.S. plans to covertly engineer various pretexts that would justify
a U.S. invasion of Cuba. These proposals - part of a secret anti-Castro
program known as Operation Mongoose - included staging the assassinations
of Cubans living in the United States, developing a fake “Communist
Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and
even in Washington,” including “sink[ing] a boatload of
Cuban refugees (real or simulated),” faking a Cuban airforce
attack on a civilian jetliner, and concocting a “Remember the
Maine” incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in Cuban waters and
then blaming the incident on Cuban sabotage. Bamford himself writes
that Operation Northwoods “may be the most corrupt plan ever
created by the U.S. government.” Body of Secrets; James Bamford;
Anchor Books, (begin reading bottom page 78).
Operation
Northwoods - Proof US Government Could Harm Americans,
by William Douglas, details this plan to create terrorism. The
FOI documents are in HTML and PDF
form.
Friendly Fire:
U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke
War With Cuba By David Ruppe PDF
form.
For different points of view and discussion on this amazing
proposal, do a search
at Google.
[Original Site for Douglas
article]
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