September 12 marked the 26th anniversary of the FBI arresting a ring of Cuban spies plotting to kill Americans, planning terrorist attacks, and espionage of U.S. military bases, only for them to be released by Obama in 2014. The Wasp Network was just another example of how the communist Castro dictatorship’s spies easily infiltrate and operate in the U.S. It is also another example of how unilateral concessions and appeasing the Cuban regime, as Obama did and the Biden-Harris administration continues to do, is a total failure.
Via the Center for a FREE Cuba:
26 years ago the FBI broke up the WASP network, a Cuban spy ring that conspired to kill Americans, plotted terror attacks, and spied on military facilities
Gerardo Hernandez, the head of the network was convicted of murder conspiracy and espionage and condemned to a double life sentence. President Obama commuted Hernandez’s double life sentence on December 17, 2014, as part of the concessions made in the effort to normalize relations between Cuba and the United States.
Gerardo Hernández was promoted to Deputy National Coordinator of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) in April 2020, tasked with monitoring neighborhood committees to spy on all Cubans on the island. He was also appointed to the Castro dictatorship’s Council of State, the 31-member body that oversees day-to-day life on the island, on December 17, 2020.
Providing context
The 2009 book Betrayal: Clinton, Castro & The Cuban Five by Matt Lawrence, and Thomas Van Hare provides a compendium of the evidence. It exposes the facts about what happened and who knew prior to the murder of three Americans and one legal resident. All were volunteers out to save the lives of fleeing refugees. Below is a video introduction to the book by Matt Lawrence, one of the authors. Lawrence had volunteered his time, and flown search and rescue for Brothers to the Rescue.
The Brothers to the Rescue shoot down on February 24, 1996, and the influence operation conducted by Ana Belen Montes to direct blame away from the Castro regime, and onto the victims, drew the attention of investigators, and in September 2001 led to the arrest of this spy for Havana working in a sensitive position at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the Pentagon. This is also explored in the book by Lawrence and Van Hare.
State terrorism
On May 17, 2012 the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere in the U.S. Congress’s Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing on “Cuba’s Global Network of Terrorism, Intelligence, and Warfare.” Among the experts who spoke at the hearing was Mr. Christopher Simmons, founding editor of Cuba Confidential, an online blog and source for news on Cuban espionage worldwide. He is an international authority on the Cuban Intelligence Service and retired from the Defense Intelligence Agency with over 23 years of experience as a counterintelligence officer, and played an important role in the capture of Ana Belen Montes.
Simmons ended his presentation outlining and summarizing the high profile act of state terrorism that killed four Cuban Americans in an operation conducted on orders from highest levels of the Castro regime.
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That depends on what you consider failure. Obviously our definition differs from that of the Dems, just as our motives and goals differ. Obama couldn’t care less about the crimes committed by those spies.