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Cuba's Global Network of Terrorism, Intelligence CUBA’S GLOBAL NETWORK OF TERRORISM, INTELLIGENCE, AND WARFARE HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED TWELFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION MAY 17, 2012 Serial No. 112–158 Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Affairs ( Available via the World Wide Web: http://www.foreignaffairs.house.gov/ or http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 74–240PDF WASHINGTON : 2012 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2104 Mail: Stop IDCC, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate 0ct 09 2002 16:24 Aug 22, 2012 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 F:\WORK\112TH\TEXT\74240 HFA PsN: SHIRL COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida, Chairman CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH, New Jersey HOWARD L. BERMAN, California DAN BURTON, Indiana GARY L. ACKERMAN, New York ELTON GALLEGLY, California ENI F.H. FALEOMAVAEGA, American DANA ROHRABACHER, California Samoa DONALD A. MANZULLO, Illinois BRAD SHERMAN, California EDWARD R. ROYCE, California ELIOT L. ENGEL, New York STEVE CHABOT, Ohio GREGORY W. MEEKS, New York RON PAUL, Texas RUSS CARNAHAN, Missouri MIKE PENCE, Indiana ALBIO SIRES, New Jersey JOE WILSON, South Carolina GERALD E. CONNOLLY, Virginia CONNIE MACK, Florida THEODORE E. DEUTCH, Florida JEFF FORTENBERRY, Nebraska DENNIS CARDOZA, California MICHAEL T. MCCAUL, Texas BEN CHANDLER, Kentucky TED POE, Texas BRIAN HIGGINS, New York GUS M. BILIRAKIS, Florida ALLYSON SCHWARTZ, Pennsylvania JEAN SCHMIDT, Ohio CHRISTOPHER S. MURPHY, Connecticut BILL JOHNSON, Ohio FREDERICA WILSON, Florida DAVID RIVERA, Florida KAREN BASS, California MIKE KELLY, Pennsylvania WILLIAM KEATING, Massachusetts TIM GRIFFIN, Arkansas DAVID CICILLINE, Rhode Island TOM MARINO, Pennsylvania JEFF DUNCAN, South Carolina ANN MARIE BUERKLE, New York RENEE ELLMERS, North Carolina ROBERT TURNER, New York YLEEM D.S. POBLETE, Staff Director RICHARD J. KESSLER, Democratic Staff Director SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE CONNIE MACK, Florida, Chairman MICHAEL T. MCCAUL, Texas ELIOT L. ENGEL, New York JEAN SCHMIDT, Ohio ALBIO SIRES, New Jersey DAVID RIVERA, Florida ENI F.H. FALEOMAVAEGA, American CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH, New Jersey Samoa ELTON GALLEGLY, California DONALD M. PAYNE, New Jersey (II) VerDate 0ct 09 2002 16:24 Aug 22, 2012 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 F:\WORK\112TH\TEXT\74240 HFA PsN: SHIRL C O N T E N T S Page WITNESSES The Honorable Michelle Van Cleave, president, National Security Concepts, Inc. (former National Counterintelligence Executive under President George W. Bush) ............................................................................................................... 8 Mr. Christopher Simmons, founding editor, Cuba Confidential (retired De- fense Intelligence Agency Supervisory Counterintelligence Officer) ............... 16 LETTERS, STATEMENTS, ETC., SUBMITTED FOR THE HEARING The Honorable Michelle Van Cleave: Prepared statement .................................. 10 Mr. Christopher Simmons: Prepared statement ................................................... 19 APPENDIX Hearing notice .......................................................................................................... 36 Hearing minutes ...................................................................................................... 37 The Honorable Connie Mack, a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida, and chairman, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere: Prepared statement .............................................................................................. 39 Letter dated May 17, 2012, to the Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton from Members of Congress .............................................................................. 41 (III) VerDate 0ct 09 2002 16:24 Aug 22, 2012 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 F:\WORK\112TH\TEXT\74240 HFA PsN: SHIRL VerDate 0ct 09 2002 16:24 Aug 22, 2012 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 F:\WORK\112TH\TEXT\74240 HFA PsN: SHIRL CUBA’S GLOBAL NETWORK OF TERRORISM, INTELLIGENCE, AND WARFARE THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Washington, DC. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 3 o’clock p.m., in room 2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Connie Mack (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Mr. MACK. The subcommittee will come to order. I first want to thank everyone, especially our witnesses for coming today and being with us and we look forward to hearing your testimony and offering your insight. After I recognize myself and the chairman of the full committee and the ranking member of this committee for 5 minutes for open- ing statements, I will then recognize the members of the sub- committee for 2 minutes each for their opening statements. We will then proceed directly to hear testimony from our distinguished wit- nesses. The full text of the written testimony will be inserted into the record. Without objection, members may have 5 days to submit state- ments and questions for the record. After we hear from our wit- nesses, individual members will be recognized for 5 minutes each for questions of our witnesses. I would now like to recognize the chairman of the full committee, my dear friend from Florida, Ms. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen for her re- marks. Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Well, thank you very much, Chairman Mack. Thank you for holding this important hearing to highlight the con- tinued threat to U.S. foreign policy priorities and U.S. national se- curity interests posed by the Castro regime which is a state spon- sor of terrorism operating 90 miles from our U.S. shores. And I’d like to point out and wish him much success that our chairman, Connie Mack, will be appearing at the Heritage Founda- tion jointly sponsored by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation tomorrow at 11 to 12:30 to talk about an act of soli- darity with the people of Cuba, the struggle for freedom continues. So thank you, Mr. Chairman. I also would like to thank Ranking Member Engel for his contin- ued support for the freedom and democratic aspirations of the Cuban people. Mr. Engel has had a lifelong record of solidarity with the Cuban people, even when it is difficult for him politically back home. He errs on the side of freedom, justice, liberty, and re- (1) VerDate 0ct 09 2002 16:24 Aug 22, 2012 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6633 F:\WORK\112TH\TEXT\74240 HFA PsN: SHIRL 2 spect for human rights. So thank you, Mr. Engel, for the political courage that you show every day. But Mr. Mack, thank you, because the timing for your hearing could not be more appropriate as it raises grave questions about the administration’s policies toward the Castro dictatorship and the threats to our homeland. I’d like to focus, in particular, on the ap- palling open-door policy that the administration appears to have adopted for regime officials and operatives. We’re talking about agents of a State Department-designated state sponsor of ter- rorism, agents of a regime that seeks to destabilize our democratic partners in our hemisphere, and agents of a dictatorship that has a long-standing alliance with the Iranian regime. We’re talking about agents of a regime that has an active espionage operation against the United States. And one of your witnesses, Mr. Simmons, certainly knows about this act of espionage operation. It includes members of the Wasp network, convicted for trying to penetrate U.S. military installa- tions. It also includes cyber attacks in the United States, State De- partment officials who were turned into spies for the Cuban regime and compromised important U.S. foreign policy information, and an espionage network that included a former senior defense intel- ligence official who provided highly classified information to the Cuban regime about U.S. military activities and whose spying may have caused the death of a U.S. serviceman operating in Latin America. This is serious stuff indeed. This is a regime responsible for the murder of three American citizens and the U.S. resident in 1996 in the Brothers to the Rescue shootdown. So it is incomprehensible and indeed appalling to see the Department of State facilitating access to our nation for these enemies of the United States. From Washington, DC, to San Fran- cisco, Castro operatives want to travel to the United States and the State Department will grant them a visa. Just today, earlier today, news reports confirmed that State did, in fact, issue a visa to the daughter of dictator Raul Castro, Mariela Castro, to attend a conference in California next week. Mariela Castro is a communist regime sympathizer. She’s part of the regime. She has labeled Cuban dissidents as despicable parasites. Those are her words. There are also reports that Eusebio Leal tasked by the regime to expand tourism to the island under the guise of serving as a his- torian of Havana is also being granted a visa to speak at the Brookings Institute tomorrow, Friday. Just a few weeks ago, Josefina Vidal-Ferreiro, from the regime’s Ministry of Foreign Af- fairs, whose husband was expelled from the United States for espi- onage activities, was also given a warm welcome by the Depart- ment of State. This disturbing pattern that is developing where the doors of the United States are opened to officials and activists from state sponsors of
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