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Cuban Intelligence Defector Reveals: Castro Spies on Celebrities
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| June 2, 2005
| Humberto Fontova
Posted on 06/02/2005 9:15:37 AM PDT by hinterlander
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To: hinterlander
One of the many delights of seeing Castro's regime crumble is going to be the flood of information regarding the illicit behavior of high-profile liberals in Cuba.
The truth will out...
To: hinterlander
Even a U.S. citizen with aged relatives in Cuba is limited to one trip every few years or so.
Why let the "stars" get away with circumventing the U.S. boycott?
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06/02/2005 1:45:58 PM PDT
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kenavi
("Remember, your fathers sacrificed themselves without need of a messianic complex." Ariel Sharon)
To: Marauder
OTOH, Morgan Freeman was asked about his stance on the war in Iraq, and he simply said, "I'm paid to act, not talk about politics." Bravo!Comedian Dave Chappelle took the same tack on that as Mr Freeman.
In one sketch, he was pretending to do an HBO comedy special, and he yelled to the crowd, "Y'all wanna know what I think about Bush?"
The crowd yelled "Yeah!", and Dave said, "Goodnight!" and walked off the stage.
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06/02/2005 7:11:28 PM PDT
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FierceDraka
(The Democratic Party - Aiding and Abetting The Enemies of America Since 1968)
To: Calpernia; Velveeta; DAVEY CROCKETT; WestCoastGal; lacylu; Tuba Guy; Pepper777; SevenofNine; ...
Ping for the rest of the story.
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06/02/2005 9:28:25 PM PDT
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nw_arizona_granny
(My prayer of thanks is for all the Freepers who make my days so interesting,educational and loving.)
To: drpix; All
That is sick really sick that evil
I like it LOL!
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06/02/2005 9:59:56 PM PDT
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SevenofNine
(Not everybody in, it for truth, justice, and the American way,"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: LRS
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06/03/2005 6:34:42 AM PDT
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ConservativeStLouisGuy
(11th FReeper Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Unnecessarily Excerpt)
To: hinterlander
Useful Idiots
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06/03/2005 6:36:06 AM PDT
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bmwcyle
(Washington DC RINO Hunting Guide)
To: ConservativeStLouisGuy
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Cuban Intelligence Defector Reveals: Castro Spies on Celebrities - Humberto Fontova
Posted Jun 2, 2005
"Fidel Castro is a genius!" gushed Jack Nicholson after a visit with the Cuban Fuhrer in 1998. "We spoke about everything," the actor rhapsodized. "Castro is a humanist like President Clinton. Cuba is simply a paradise!" .
Jack Nicholson has been saying such things for years now. Many of his Hollywood cohorts follow suit. Francis Ford Coppola, Kevin Costner, Steven Spielberg, Woody Harrelson, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Leo DiCaprio, Chevy Chase, Robert Redford among many others have all waxed euphoric on Castro and his island prison.
While discussing the book, Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant on his show recently, Bill O'Reilly refered to these celebs as "Hollywood pinheads." But there might be more to these celebrity plugs for a tyrant who jailed more of his subjects than Hitler or Stalin than the usual celebrity vacuity upstairs.
"My job was to bug their rooms," revealed Cuban intelligence defector Delfin Fernandez while on a Madrid TV show recently, "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. Child sex, drug use, orgies, those are the sort of things they want to tape, anything--shall we sayethically incorrect. And Castro's undercover agents don't wait around hoping the famous visitors might randomly engage in these things. They tempt them, bait them with offers." According to some sources, Havana has recently topped Bangkok as the mecca for child sex.
"He (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, Meliá Habana and Meliá Cohiba," says Fernandez, "we already had their rooms completely bugged with sophisticated taping equipment. Cuban agents also stay in the rooms on either side of the celebrity room. These intelligence agents are usually accompanied by a woman and children to make it look like a typical vacationing family. They also follow the celebrity visitors around, sometimes covering them 24 hours a day. The celebrities had no idea we were tailing them."
Famous Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar was a special target for this bugging but nothing of value came of it for Castro. "Everybody already knows I'm gay!" Almodovar laughed at Castro's blackmailers. "So go right ahead! Knock yourselves out!"
"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 his longtime "friend" Nobel prize 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 the 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. "Hummmm, 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 smirked as he looked around the room, "that this senora should be making more respectful comments about our regime, right?"
"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 Di Caprio. 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 Meliá Cohiba," states Fernandez, the man in charge of the bugging.
Turns out, however, that at least one visiting dignitary foiled Castro's intelligence. On his visit to Cuba in 1998, Pope John Paul II's assistants discovered and removed several bugging devices from his Holiness' hotel room. Perhaps Castro had a grudge against the Papacy. Most don't recall, but in Janurary 1962 Pope John XXIII ex-communicated Fidel Castro from the Catholic Church. It seemed fitting, considering the hundreds of Cuban men and boys crumpling to Castro's firing squads while yelling "Long Live Christ the King!" during their last seconds alive (Fidel, pp. 13, 17).
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posted on
06/03/2005 6:36:18 AM PDT
by
ConservativeStLouisGuy
(11th FReeper Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Unnecessarily Excerpt)
To: FierceDraka
Dave Chappelle took the same tack on that as Mr Freeman.Such discretion is the sign of intelligence in one who depends upon the masses liking him. What people like Robbins, Sarandon, Streisand, ad nauseum fail to understand is that their behavior makes a large segment of the population dislike them personally.
This equates to loss of revenue, since going to a theater to watch their movies, or paying money for their CDs, is like "hanging out" with them. If you dislike someone, the last thing you want to do is hang out with them, regardless of their talent.
Another of my favorite instances is when some hare-brained reportress asked Elvis Presley about his opinion of the Viet Nam war. His reponse was, "Ma'am, I'm just an entertainer."
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posted on
06/03/2005 7:47:07 AM PDT
by
Marauder
(Politicians use words the way a squid uses ink.)
To: SevenofNine
"That is sick really sick..." Sick? You're thinking sexual. It's not sexual...it's very charming!
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posted on
06/03/2005 10:08:50 AM PDT
by
drpix
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