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Claudia:
Here is my academic book review of Julia Sweig's apologist pro-Castro book
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/academic/fhq-12-04.pdf
Lisandro Perez threatened to sue me for slander back in February 1993 when I unmasked him in an academic essay entitled "Academic Espionage: U.S. Taxpayer Funding of a Pro-Castro Study." Read Perez's blustering letter in the last page of the report. That was more than fifteen years ago and I never heard from him again. Here is the rest of the documentation on Perez
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/lisandro-perez.htm
Marifeli Perez-Stable
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/marifeli.htm
had ACLU attorney John de Leon twice send threatening letters to me and Henry Gomez that he was going to sue us for defamation against her. That was nearly two years ago and we are still waiting for the court summons. Perez-Stable did not even bother to threaten Simmons after he publicly accused her of being a salaried Castro spy.
Simmons is basing his information on the debriefings of various Cuban intelligence defectors and the testimony of confessed and convicted Castro spy Professor Carlos Alvarez, an FIU colleague of PPerez-Stable and Lisandro Perez. One of the debriefings is at
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/Perez-Mendez-debriefing.pdf
These official U.S. government documents will have more credibility in court than anything Lisandro Perez or Perez-Stable can say. Besides, they will expose themselves to perjury after giving a sworn deposition. I predict that, once again, the accused Castro spies will not take any legal action. It will be "business as usual" at FIU and the Miami Herald, where Lisandro Perez was on their editorial board of contributors (1985-1990) and Perez-Stable is in that position now.

Oye parece mentira que todavia dejan ese nido de avispas en el medio de Miami operar con plena libertad >>>> FIU. Creo que debe de haber presion de la comunidad para que despiden a todos esos que colaboran con los h de p's.

The nerve of this Simmons character. I am not a spy because I only gave Cuba scholarly information for free. If I was a spy, the U.S. State Department would not have given me half a million dollars for my Cuba in Transition Project. Marifea and I have been meeting with John the Lionheart to file the mother of all lawsuits. FIU President Mitch MyDick has pledged his support for us. See you in court, Babalooers!

I'm deliriously happy that Lisandro Perez was finally outed. In his capacity as "consulted Scholar on Cuba and Cuban Americans" he has done a lot of harm. I read one of his books, "The Legacy of Exile: Cuban in the United States" and it's a horrible book full of recycled stereotypes, pejorative terminology and down right lousy scholarship that not surprisingly gives a slanted, highly negative view of Cuban Americans. Julia Sweig is another one. She is also a highly quoted "Cuba scholar."

Kudos to Simmons for exposing these rats!

Did FIU president Maidique ever say one single word publicly in response to the recent Simmons charges about Perez-Stable? Is he going to say anything now about Lisando Perez? I doubt it. Let's not forget the CONVICTED spy couple that worked at FIU for years.

It's Maidique's ballpark, presumably, and he's responsible for keeping it clean and above suspicion. Obviously, he hasn't exactly been doing a bang-up job. I wonder why, and I'm hardly alone in wondering.

Once again academia full of these useless shit running down the country just like that marxist Barak Hussein Obama.

Sticks and stones
will break my bones
but names will never hurt me.

A writer for the Rockefelleriat/CFR is a spy for a marxist regime? Whoda thought!?

every dog has their day!

Dear Kool-Aid Drinkers - Let me give you a little history lesson. Many, many moons ago there was an obscure senator for Wisconsin who made a name for himself by insisting there were Commies all over the government. Everywhere he turned he saw a conspiracy and a Commie. Finally in the end the Senator got his when bit off more than he could chew and ended up being censured by the Senate. In his efforts he did damage to his country and his cause but not for the reasons you would think.

After McCarthy any and all accusers of commie spys were marginalized and being on McCarthy like with hunts. So in the time after McCarthy it became harder to ferret out commies because of the shame associated with the frenzy that followed his speech in Wheeling. Simmons is doing the same thing...showing the same evidence that McCarthy showed...none. What is going to happen is that if charges prove false the ones that will suffer will be us.

We all know that there are infiltrators in our midst, that there are spies in Little Havana, in boardrooms and campuses. But if we overplay our hand if we believe without proof then our cause will suffer. People will not believe us again. Show us the effing proof already if it really exists. This guy sounds like Jose Canseco when he was peddling his book talking about proof that A Rod did steroids...he talked and talked and talked but when the book came out nothing on A Rod. It was all BS Don't believe Simmons until he gives us something.

Cardinal-

I agree with you that McCarthy created chaos and then diminished the whole anti-comie sentiment and the hunt for commies because of how he handled the situation. I also agree with you that castro has spies all over Miami.

What I don't agree with is the need for the proof to be shown to the public. Why? Simmons has proof but in this day and age, doesn't need to prove it unless he is planning to proceed with prosecution, ie the Ana Montés case where the mole was a high ranking official in our federal government. He has stated before that his goal is to make the public aware, to bring their association with castro to the forefront, which is what he has done. Humiliate them? Only if they find what they do to be humiliating.

In the case of the professors, I don't think a whole lot of students care, because they don't have a clue about communism, the history of castro-US relations or what the threat of communism was during the Cold War. Our war now is focused on Middle Eastern terrorists, not Cuban communists (also terrorists).

The point is, these spies now know that they have been exposed. Not one of them has said "boo" or taken LTC Simmons to court over his accusations because they know that they will open a gigantic can of worms and they will lose. Simmons has said he welcomes charges to be brought against him by the people he has named and he will haul all of his material to court to prove every case. These people may be commie spies but they aren't stupid. They are hoping Simmons' revelations and the publicity die down and they can just brush him off as a crazy and everyone will forget.

So don't expect proof to be made public soon.

Also, I read Canseco's book and in it he named Rafael Palmeiro as a big juicer. Rafael vehemently denied it when the book came out. And we all know what happened to him.

Cardinal, four points:

(1) McCarthy was right. The underlying information about Communist infiltration cannot be denied nor cannot it be disputed. Read Commies by Ronald Radosh.

(2) Nobody ever remembers the House Un-American Activities Committee because McCarthy was a Senator. Were they wrong too?

(3) As Claudia wrote, the "victims" of Simmons's "witch-hunt" can take him to court. I, for one, am looking forward to the trials :-)

(4) I'd take the advice of someone who has worked counter-intelligence for twenty-plus years over yours any day.

At least we are being civil...

(1) An underrated classic, because it isn't written by a conservative is Not Without Honor: A History of American Anti-Communism. Very honest assessment that rips McCarthy but for the very reasons we agree on.

(2) HUAC was ripped a lot during the Cold War, but you're right they aren't mentioned - I suppose because they were more often right then wrong and admittedly there was only one McCarthy and the HUAC was a committee.

(3) Yes, but that is what I'm uncomfortable with. C'mon we're Republicans, right? Don't we get annoyed by lawyers and the parasitic economy that they represent. Not only that - I remember Reagan Secretary of Labor Ray Donovan after he beat back charges that cost him his office and standing. When it was over - his life in shambles he asked "Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?" Maybe it's my deliberate personality - perhaps it is my Catholic roots. Before I accuse someone of something I want to be sure that it's true.

(4) I believe what my parents, brother and wife (sometimes) tell me - no one else. I don't know Simmons from Adams - he is nothing to me. The only thing in this world that I accept on faith is that Jesus Christ died for my sins and rose from the dead - that's it. I don't attack Simmons not because I hate you guys - I attack him because as a Cuban-American I don't want us to be duped and used... again. He needs to be grilled by an independent and unbiased member of the media - and I do consider Fox News or elements of it to be just such an authority.

As for Canseco - it is a prime example he got some stuff right and he got some stuff wrong. He got so much pub the first time he came back a second time with BS charges that didn't hold water.

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