October 18, 2007
Is you is or is you ain’t CIA Operatives
Every day you see it in the news; the Cuban 5 this and the Cuban 5 that. These five communist Cuban spies are serving lengthy prison terms after being caught spying on US soil and convicted of espionage. The Cuban dictatorship, however, says these poor Cubans are nothing more than patriots sent here to spy not on the US, but on those pesky Cuban exile groups that are planning terrorist attacks against Cuba’s totalitarian regime. Therefore, they should be released from prison immediately since they were never actually spying on the US.
Well, if you put it that way, it makes total sense, but as usual, there is more to this than meets the eye.
According to castro and his merry band of thieves, everyone in the world loves him and his repressive system of government. The only people that hate him, as a matter of fact, are those imperialistic thugs in the US government. Their favorite branch to vilify is the CIA who they love to blame for everything from hurricanes to lunar eclipses. Everyone who opposes the communist dictatorship in Cuba must therefore be either a member of the US government, or a paid CIA operative. To them it is simple: No one in their right mind could be against the wonderful system of government in Cuba that provides free education and free healthcare to its slaves.
Here is where their argument for the Cuban 5 hits the proverbial wall. If in fact the US government is responsible for ALL opposition to castro’s tyranny, then that means that the exile groups that their spies were watching were US operatives and therefore, part of the US government. So, that means they were indeed spying on the US and got what they deserved.
You can’t have it both ways, although castro and his murderous thugs have been trying their best to do so for the past 48 years. They can whine and patalear all they want, but it is what it is.
Posted by Alberto de la Cruz at October 18, 2007 07:27 AM |
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Examine the photos. It's remarkable how "normal" or just-plain-folks these spies LOOK. I'm sure that's no coincidence. They probably ACTED the same way. Just "everyday" people, "nothing to worry about." Very disturbing.
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at October 18, 2007 10:39 AM
You do have a chilling point there, Asombra. They do look like "regular guys." I can see how any of us could have been fooled by them.
Scary.
Posted by: albertodelacruz at October 18, 2007 11:09 AM
What would you guys imagine these spies "should" look like?
Heck, if raul castro donned a LaCoste T-shirt, Bermuda shorts and pair of Top Siders he would probably walk up and down Flagler Street all day completely unrecognized, and undisturbed.
Posted by: LittleGator at October 18, 2007 11:18 AM
Thank you for taking the "they weren't spying on the US" arguement to its logical conclusion. It gave me a lovely laugh this morning.
Posted by: Amy at October 18, 2007 11:23 AM
LittleGator, if you don't think Raul Castro looks fishy, or at least vaguely disreputable, you need to look a little harder. These guys were picked to arouse as little suspicion as possible, which obviously makes perfect sense.
Posted by: asombra at October 18, 2007 01:17 PM
Asombra,
Most days, there's lots of fishy-looking-slightly-disreputable people ambling up and down Flagler street. I still think raul would go unnoticed unless he did something to call attention to himself.
Whomever it was that coined the "banality of evil" phrase was spot on. Serial killers don't generally look like "serial killers."
Short, nearsighted heirs to repressive castroist dictatorships are really quite ordinary when not surrounded by the trappings of power. raul, without that poorly designed uniform, and sans body guards would probably look like just another retired Cuban-American barber, plumber or factory worker.
Posted by: LittleGator at October 18, 2007 01:45 PM
LittleGator, I think we're both saying the same thing. The point is not that the spies should look like spies or bad people or suspicious people, but exactly the opposite, and they do. The married couple caught spying at FIU also looked quite ordinary. This is no accident. It's just a way to make these people harder to detect so they can be more effective at their jobs.
Posted by: asombra at October 18, 2007 01:52 PM
Spies don't generally walk around in Boris and Natasha outfits.
Posted by: Zhangliqun at October 18, 2007 02:48 PM
In case it wasn't clear enough, my point was precisely that real spies do not look or act like spies, but just the opposite. The SOB who set up the murders of the shot down Brothers to the Rescue pilots fooled everybody, including Basulto, and then simply scurried back to Havana when the deed was done. He even managed to get a book written and published here about his supposedly heroic escape or defection from Cuba, obviously before his mission was completed.
Posted by: asombra at October 19, 2007 10:48 AM
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