Supporting Castro
By P.J. Gladnick
Created 2009-05-10 10:15
It is not surprising that such far left Hollywood celebrities as Sean
Pean and Danny Glover would support an outright communist dictatorship
in Cuba but many other seemingly sane folks also have expressed their
sympathy for Fidel Castro. I'm talking about people like Kevin Costner
and Steven Spielberg. Costner is not known for any extreme leftwing
politics and Spielberg, while liberal, has embarrassed himself with his
support for the communist regime. Why? Well, we might have the answer:
blackmail.
According to an article [1] by Humberto Fontova pubished in the Canada
Free Press, it was the task of a high ranking former Cuban intelligence
official to bug the hotel rooms of visiting celebrities:
"My job was to bug their hotel rooms," says high-ranking Cuban
intelligence defector Delfin Fernandez. "With both cameras and listening
devices. Most people have no idea they are being watched while they are
in Cuba. But their personal activities are filmed under orders from
Castro himself."
..."He [Delfin Fernandez] has not only met some of the most famous
men in the world," says the London Daily Mirror about the Cuban
defector, "he's also spied on them and been witness to some of their
most innermost secrets."
"When the celebrity visitors arrived at the hotels Nacional, Melia
Habana and Melia Cohiba," says Fernandez, "we already had their rooms
completely bugged with sophisticated taping equipment. But not just the
rooms, we'd also follow the visitors around. Sometimes we covered them
24 hours a day. They had no idea we were tailing them."
Of course, blackmail can work only if the targets fear the revelations.
In the case of Spanish filmmaker, Pedro Almodovar, the blackmail attempt
failed for that very reason:
Famous Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar was a special target for
this bugging, but nothing of value for Castro came of it. "Everybody
already knows I'm a maricon!" Almodovar laughed at Castro's
blackmailers. "So go right ahead! Knock yourselves out!"
It seems that Castro had a highly voyeuristic side when it came to these
blackmailings:
"Fidel Castro is a special connoisseur of these tapings and
videos," Fernandez says. "Especially of the really famous."
And not even his closest "friends" are safe from this bugging. The
best example is Castro's longtime "friend" Nobel Prize-winning novelist
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In what appeared as a touching act of generosity
and friendship, Castro gave his friend "Gabo" his very own [stolen]
mansion in Havana.
"We had remodeled it right before," remembers intelligence honcho
Fernandez, "and we installed more cables for bugging devices than for
the normal electrical appliances. We taped EVERYTHING! Fidel doesn't
trust ANYONE."
Castro's top intelligence people would gather for the screenings of
these tapes almost like Hollywood types for an upcoming movie. "Hmmmm,
these scenes are more scandalous than anything in any of her movies!"
Fernandez recalls a top intelligence officer chortling while watching
the nighttime cavortings of a famous Spanish actress.
"Now it really seems to me, companeros," the Castro intimate
chortled as he looked around the room, "that this senora should be
making more respectful comments about our regime, right?"
Some of the American celebrities who were bugged and subject to intense
surveillance were listed by Fernandez:
"But famous Americans are the priority objectives of Castro's
intelligence," says Fernandez. "When word came down that models Naomi
Campbell and Kate Moss were coming to Cuba, the order was a routine one:
24-hour-a-day vigilance. Then we got a PRIORITY alert," recalls
Fernandez, "because there was a rumor that they would be sharing a room
with Leonardo DiCaprio. The rumor set off a flurry of activity, and we
set up the most sophisticated devices we had."
"The American actor Jack Nicholson was another celebrity who was
bugged and taped THOROUGHLY during his stay in the hotel Melia Cohiba,"
states Fernandez, the man in charge of the bugging.
I'm not so sure that Jack Nicholson could be blackmailed because we
already know he is a wild and crazy guy. It brings to mind the situation
of Indonesian President Ahmed Sukarno in the1960s when he visited
Moscow. He was secretly filmed [2] in his hotel suite having a big orgy
with young women:
...The orgy was filmed by two candid cameras that were fixed behind
mirrors. It seemed that the operation was just perfect. Before starting
the blackmail, KGB invited Sukarno in a small private movie theatre and
showed him the pornographic video, in which he was playing the main
part. KGB agents were expecting him to get really frightened, that he
would agree to cooperate with them at once, but everything happened vice
versa: Sukarno fondly decided that it was a gift from the Soviet
government, so he asked for more copies to take them back to Indonesia
and show them in movie theatres. Sukarno said to flabbergasted agents
that the people of Indonesia would be very proud of him, if they could
see him doing the nasty with Russian girls.
Mostly likely Jack Nicholson would have had a similar reaction if any
such blackmail attempt were made upon him. However, what of Dan Rather
seen standing happily in the photo above with Castro? Was such
chumminess forced upon him by blackmail? In the case of Rather, your
humble correspondent gives him a pass. That look of absolute joy on the
face of the normally dour Rather is much too authentic to have been
forced upon him by blackmail. Dan was genuinely enthralled by Fidel
Castro. No blackmail needed in his case but how many other journalists
and celebrities fell prey to Castro's blackmail?
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