Former Cuban Intelligence Official: Celebrities Often Blackmailed Into Supporting Castro

NewsBusters ^ | May 10, 2009 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

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 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.”

[PJ-Comix]

And, NO, I DON'T think Dan Rather was blackmailed. Read the ENTIRE article to find out why.

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[Williams]

The mere fact anyone praises a dictator for life who is in about the 50th year of his tyrannical reign, makes me weep for my country on many levels.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

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[FrogMom]

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!”

Showing my ignorance, here. What is a "maricon"?

[usmcobra]

a faggot

[RetSignman]

Homosexual

[econjack]

Interesting, but not one shred of evidence to implicate the Hollywood left. While I’d like to see the Hollywood liberals handed their walking papers, I’d rather see it come through the box office than crap like this.

[Williams]

So the entire article and entire book fail to reveal anyone he knows was successfully blackmailed? The Suharto story (from Russia not Cuba) is about 50 years old.

What a rip off.

BTW, whether they use videotapes or not, everyone knows the democrats threaten their opponents here from the local level on up. Think about how viciously they are attempting to damage Carrie Prejean.

[org.whodat]

That is not correct, he is a Fourth Congressional District of Massachusetts representative, if he's a famous maricon.

[philly-d-kidder]

Showing my ignorance, here. What is a “maricon”?
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or as they say in spanish: a waiter without a tray!!

[WellyP]

So, does Castro have any old clips of Obama’s mother doing the nasty?? She was in Cuba from mid-Sept. to late December 1960. Obama was born (he says) 4 August 1961......do the math!

[gusopol3]

This seems like a stretch to me; what are they even doing in Cuba if they aren’t Castro lovers?

[dfwgator]

I think this also explains all of the celebrity Scientologists, they’ve got the “goods” on these people.

[spikeytx86]

I really don't buy that this is why they support him. Outing an actor or actress for an affair, being gay, having a drug and/or alcohol problem, etc. would more then likely boost their start power in Hollyweird if anything.

About the only thing they could blackmail them with is being a Republican NRA Member who never cheated on his or hers spouse. And I don't think that comes up often, especially for stars that already are traveling to Cuba to begin with.

[Scanian]

Well, there are enough pix of Mattress Annie circulating on the Web already. What else would be necessary? (”Everybody knows my momma was a puta!”)

[spikeytx86]

start should be star.

[WellyP]

Please don’t go there. I will not call Stanley Ann a whore, there is no record of her ever taking money for sexual favors. She was just a hot young girl who liked to screw about everything that wore pants.

We were young, weren’t we?

[Tax-chick]

What can they be blackmailed for if everyone already knows they’re scum?

[ETL]

I’ve always suspected that a lot of republicans have been blackmailed by foreign powers into doing some of the crazy things they do, but I seriously doubt if very many liberals would need to be bribed in order to support Castro or other communists. It’s who they are.