L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and Cuban Intelligence

“In the mid-1970s, California Congresswoman Karen Bass…was an organizer for the Venceremos Brigade…” reads the biographical record of Bass described in Armin Rosen’s article in Tablet magazine in 2020. An event blurb in an October 1975 issue of the communist Daily World newspaper describes Bass, then 22, as “leader of the Venceremos Brigade in southern California” who, as a “brigadista” and then organizer for the Venceremos Brigades, “visited Cuba every 6 months.”

In that heady Age of Aquarius, hundreds of starry-eyed college kids were volunteering to “help build Cuban Socialism” and “fight U.S. Imperialism,” mostly by joyfully cutting Cuban sugar cane and raptly imbibing communist propaganda lectures — while seated in front of large pics of Che Guevara and “Uncle” Ho Chi Minh.

In fact, the terrorist offshoot from the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) known as The Weathermen — and staffed most famously by Barack Obama’s future “neighbors” Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn — served as the U.S. recruitment officers of the DGI (the secret intelligence agency of Cuba) at the time, which proved easy. Castro’s DGI and their KGB masters had other goals in mind, as we’ll see in a minute.

That Karen Bass was a very enthusiastic and active Venceremos Brigadista, we’ve already established. But was there more to these Venceremos Brigades? Perhaps a declassified FBI report (from well before the Bureau was run by people by Comey and Wray) might help:

The ultimate objective of the DGI in setting up the Venceremos Brigades ‘is the recruitment of individuals who are politically oriented and who someday may obtain a position, elective or appointive, somewhere in the U.S. Government, which would provide the Cuban Government with access to political, economic and military intelligence.

Interestingly, right at about this time, Cuba’s DGI, which had always been mentored by the KGB, come under direct and total control of the KGB.

Let’s see the sworn testimony of a high-ranking DGI defector during a Congressional hearing titled “The Role of Cuba in International Terrorism and Subversion, Intelligence Activities of the DGI,” Feb. 26, 1982, US Senate Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism, Feb. 26, 1982. The defector in question was Mr. Gerardo Peraza, a high-ranking Cuban intelligence defector. Between the years 1959-1970, there was close cooperation between Cuba and the KGB. But by the beginning of 1970, the intelligence service of Cuba was placed under the DIRECT ORDERS of KGB Colonel Simonov.

My favorite part of the article, which does not seem to have been followed upon:

Senator Denton: Are you personally aware, Señor Peraza, that there were any successful placings of high-ranking DGI or KGB agents within the U.S. intelligence service or any defense or security-oriented agencies?

Mr. Peraza: Yes, definitely. We can use as an example the (U.S.) Senate.

Senator Denton: I imagine we better have a closed session on that.

Mr. Peraza: “Yes, yes. “

Why isn’t she in Gitmo? We have known about her dealing with the commies for 30 years.

Bingo! A key question. The answer is because almost certainly under one mistaken theory or another, she has been protected by powerful figures of the American Left, including the MSM and those in Congress.

On one hand, America has often been effectively distracted from the obvious, and on the other uninformed and misinformed.

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