AMERICANS SHOULD NEVER UNDERESTIMATE CASTRO'S MALEVOLENCE

by Charley Reese

While Fidel Castro, the world’s last Stalinist dictator, go with a whimper or a bang? Most people who know him predict that he will go with a bang by attacking the United States.

Surely, I jest, you might be thinking. But too many people close to Castro have said the same thing. This megalomaniac’s ego simply cannot cope with being an old man discarded by his own people. He would rather commit the international equivalent of copy suicide by attacking the United States.

Here is a paragraph from a paper written by Ernesto F. Betancourt of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban American studies.

"Finally, the third scenario is advanced by those who think Castro would rather end in an apocalyptic, last-ditch struggle against the hated Americans, thus provoking a Gotterdammerung to seek a place in history for himself. In a letter to Celia Sanchez in June 1958, Castro referred to a war with the U.S. as his true destiny. All those who over the last decades have been close to him in moments of crisis coincide in concluding that an apocalyptic finale is his most likely choice."

Here are a few more bits of evidence offered by Betancourt.

A march 1996 article in Jane’s Defense Weekly revealed that Castro was training special forces for a pre-emptive attack on the United States.

In September 1998, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested 10 members of a Cuban spy network in Florida. Bits of the indictments indicate the network was considering sabotaging planes or hangars at undisclosed locations in Florida. An FBI affidavit states that one of the men had been tasked to provide information about "deployment of aircraft, base daily routines, descriptions of the interior and exterior of buildings, particularly one being prepared for a highly secret activity, the use of planes equipped for electronic warfare and the home addressed of hundred of military personnel stationed at the base." The bases targeted included Boca Chica Naval Air Station at Key West and MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, where the Southern Command is located.

Dr. Luis Roberto Hernandez, who defected from Castro’s Cuba, has reported in a published article that he worked on a Cuban biowarfare project that included identifying and producing virus strains that could be injected into migratory birds. The West Nile virus, which killed some people in New York City this past summer, has been found in some dead migratory birds in that area.

On May 13, 1999, a false report was made to a New York airport, purporting to come from three C-130 U.S. military planes. The broadcast was tracked by the Federal Communications Commission back to Pinar del Rio province west of Havana.

Americans should never underestimate the malice and malevolence of Fidel Castro. Years ago I interviewed Huber Matos, who was one of Castro’s original lieutenants in the Sierra Maestra Mountains. Matos said the same thing. He compared Castro to Hitler. He said Castro had simply cut a deal with the Communists, who had offered him permanent power.

Americans are far too lackadaisical about Castro, in the past because American leftists never cease painting him as a democratic anything. He is a killer with a pathological hatred for America and Americans.

The United States had better increase its surveillance of Castro, especially now that he has allied himself with the Chinese. He has allowed the Chinese to build electronic surveillance stations similar to the Russian one that is still operating. I have a feeling that American complacency is in for a big shock one of these days.

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Charley Reese
The Orlando Sentinel
March 23, 2000

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