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   From: leroysoetoro@americans-first.com   
      
   https://townhall.com/columnists/humbertofontova/2025/07/12/so-what-were-   
   our-genuine-enemies-up-to-while-brennan-headed-the-cia-n2660255   
      
   “(In Aug. 2015) an unmarked U.S. government plane landed at an airstrip in   
   Havana, carrying…John Brennan, the director of the C.I.A.  Brennan was   
   there to meet with Alejandro Castro-Espin (Raul Castro’s son, the KGB-   
   trained head of Cuba’s counterintelligence service, who authored a book   
   titled “U.S.-Empire of Terror”) and discuss increasing intelligence   
   cooperation between the two countries. Brennan considered Cuba’s spy   
   agencies the most capable in Latin America, and hoped to work with them   
   against drug cartels and terrorist networks.”   
      
   Brennan definitely had a point. Thanks to the CIA’s historic penchant for   
   hiring and promoting people like John Brennan, Castro’s DGI and DI has   
   historically run rings around the CIA, while guffawing.   
      
   But it gets even “better:   
      
   “Brennan’s talks with Alejandro Castro took place at a discreet government   
   guesthouse, where a day of formal negotiations was followed by a banquet   
   featuring a spit-roasted pig. U.S. officials said that, during the talks,   
   Cuban leaders made it clear that they respected the C.I.A.”   
      
   I bet! But “respect” probably isn’t the proper word—unless The Pink   
   Panther “respects” inspector Closseau and The Roadrunner “respects” Wile   
   E. Coyote.” The word “appreciate” fits much better. Perhaps these   
   (thoroughly-documented) historic items will help us understand this   
   unbounded appreciation:   
      
   In 1987, Cuban intelligence officer Florentino Aspillaga defected in   
   Prague and revealed that every single Cuban agent (four dozen of them) the   
   CIA had recruited to spy on the Castro regime since 1962 was a double   
   agent controlled personally by Fidel Castro. Now backtracking a few years:   
      
   “We’ve infiltrated Castro’s guerrilla group in the Sierra Mountains. The   
   Castro brothers and Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara have no affiliations with any   
   Communists whatsoever.” (Havana CIA station Chief Jim Noel, sneering in   
   typical CIA, Ivy league blueblood manner at tacky warnings from Cuban   
   “McCarthyite deplorables” in Nov. 1958.   
      
   (In fact, all of three of these hardcore Stalinists poised to take over   
   Cuba had a KGB-handler named Nikolai Leonev since 1954!)   
      
   Now let’s fast forward to April 2015, just a few weeks prior to Brennan’s   
   ultra-secret trip to Havana:   
      
   “Cuba is not a threat to the United States…They don’t implicate our   
   national security in any way…The government of Cuba has not provided any   
   support for international terrorism during the preceding six-month period;   
   and the government of Cuba has provided assurances that it will not   
   support acts of international terrorism in the future.” (President Obama   
   after meeting with Raul Castro in Panama and recommending that Stalinist   
   Cuba be removed from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, April 14th,   
   2015.).   
      
   Presumably the head of the CIA at the time John Brennan, who had been a   
   close national security advisor to Barack Obama since his 2008 campaign,   
   signed-off on (and maybe even encouraged) Obama’s decision to whitewash   
   and legitimize the Castro-Family-Crime-Syndicate. Never mind that this   
   whitewash required taking one of modern history’s most infamous liars at   
   his word.   
      
   But in fact, only a few weeks before Obama’s (and presumably Brennan’s)   
   giddy acceptance of Castro’s promise (“cross my heart and hope to die!”),   
   Castro got caught red-handed supplying Chinese-made arms to the Western   
   hemisphere’s oldest, biggest and most murderous terror-group: Colombia’s   
   FARC. The terror-death toll from these Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de   
   Colombia (FARC) exceeds 200,000, and includes more U.S. citizens than were   
   murdered by ISIS.   
      
   So maybe it was a mere coincidence that the very week Obama (with   
   presumably Brennan’s support) planned to remove Cuba as a terror-sponsor   
   the mainstream media (especially CNN) blacked-out any mention of this   
   blatant terror-sponsorship by Cuba in our own backyard?   
      
   You see, amigos: In February 2015, Colombian authorities found 99 missile   
   heads, 100 tons of gunpowder, 2.6 million detonators, and over 3,000   
   artillery shells hidden under rice sacks in a ship bound from Red China to   
   Cuba that docked in the port of Cartagena Colombia.   
      
   Most Cuba-watchers immediately guessed what was up. And crackerjack   
   Colombian (NOT CNN or New York Times, heaven forbid!) reporters quickly   
   investigated and exposed the Castro-regime’s terror-sponsoring scheme. In   
   brief:   
      
   – The arms were from a Chinese manufacturer named Norinco and the   
   recipient was a Cuban company named Tecnoimport.   
      
   – But the ship stopped in the Colombian ports of Cartagena and Baranquilla   
   (where the FARC is based.)   
      
   – Colombia’s crackerjack newspaper El Espectador also reported that many   
   Norinco-manufactured arms had already been captured from FARC guerrillas   
   over the past ten years. This proliferation of Cuba-smuggled Chinese arms   
   to the terrorist FARC got so bad that in 2007-08 the Colombian authorities   
   sent a diplomatic protest note to the Chinese.   
      
   This awkward information at such an awkward time, needless to say, might   
   have hampered Obama’s plan (with presumably Brennan’s support) to cleanse   
   the Castro regime from any taint of terror-sponsorship—at least for people   
   with half-a-brain.   
      
   But shouldn’t the head of (probably) the world’s largest and most   
   lavishly–funded intelligence agency (the CIA) have been aware of this   
   Cuban terror-sponsorship on our very doorstep? So how could he possibly   
   sign-off on Obama’s howler that “the government of Cuba has not provided   
   any support for international terrorism during the preceding six-month   
   period?”   
      
   Two years earlier (with John Brennan the recently appointed CIA director   
   by Obama) Panamanian authorities discovered unregistered Russian missile   
   parts and actual MIG jets hidden in a North Korean ship that had just left   
   terror-sponsoring Cuba and was bound for terror-sponsoring North Korea   
   through the Panama Canal. All the Russian made contraband was hidden under   
   sacks of Cuban sugar. An investigation by a U.N. panel (no less!)   
   concluded that the Cuban smuggling was a blatant violation of   
   international sanctions.)   
      
   Shouldn’t a CIA director have been aware of this illegal, blatant and   
   repeated smuggling of arms from one terror-sponsor to another in our own   
   backyard?   
      
   Of course. But looking the other way was very convenient for de-   
   classifying the blatantly guilty party from the list of terror-sponsors--a   
   condition Castro demanded before he would deign to allow Obama to   
   legitimize and enrich his regime. The Castros, you see, knew full well how   
   Obama desperately craved the “opening to Cuba” for his “legacy.”   
      
      
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