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   From: pedro1940@progression.net   
      
   Castro Spies on Jack Nicholson and Pope.   
   By Humberto Fontova   
      
   "Fidel Castro is a genius!" gushed Jack Nicholson after a visit with the   
   Cuban Fuhrer in 1998. "We spoke about everything," the actor   
   rhapsodized."Castro is a humanist like President Clinton. Cuba is simply a   
   paradise!" .   
      
   Jack Nicholson has been saying such things for years now. Many of his   
   Hollywood cohorts follow suit. Francis Ford Coppola, Kevin Kostner, Steven   
   Spielberg, Woody Harrelson, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Leo DiCaprio Chevy   
   Chase, Robert Redford among many others have all waxed euphoric on Castro   
   and his island prison.   
      
   While holding up the book, Fidel Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant, on his show   
   recently, Bill O'Reilly  called these celebs "Hollywood pinheads."   
      
   But there might be more to these celebrity plugs for a tyrant who jailed   
   more of  his subjects than Hitler or Stalin than the usual celebrity vacuity   
   upstairs.   
      
   "My job was to bug their hotel rooms," says high-ranking Cuban intelligence   
   defector Delfin Fernandez. "With both cameras and listening devices. Most   
   people have no idea they are being watched while they are in Cuba.  But   
   their  personal activities are filmed under orders from Castro himself." And   
   according to some sources, Havana, given the desperation of it's brutalized   
   and impoverished residents,  has recently topped Bangkok as the world mecca   
   for child sex.   
      
   "He (Delfin Fernandez) has not only met some of the most famous men in the   
   world," says the London Daily Mirror about the Cuban defector,  "he's also   
   spied on them and been witness to some of their most innermost secrets."   
      
   "When the celebrity visitors arrived at the hotels Nacional, Meliá Habana   
   and Meliá Cohiba," says Fernandez, "we already had their rooms completely   
   bugged with sophisticated taping equipment, . "But not just the rooms, we'd   
   also follow the visitors around, sometimes we covered them 24 hours a day.   
   They had no idea we were tailing them."   
      
   Famous Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar was a special target for this   
   bugging but nothing of value came of it for Castro. "Everybody already knows   
   I'm a maricon!"  Almodovar  laughed at Castro's blackmailers. "So go right   
   ahead! Knock yourselves out!"   
      
    "Fidel Castro is a special connoisseur of these tapings and videos."   
   Fernandez says. "Especially of  the really famous. And not even his closest   
   "friends" are safe from this bugging. The best example is his longtime   
   Castro "friend"  Nobel prize novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In what   
   appeared as a touching act of generosity and friendship, Castro gave his   
   friend "Gabo"  his very own (stolen)  mansion in Havana  "We had remodeled   
   it right before, " remembers the Intelligence honcho, Fernandez "and we   
   installed more cables for bugging devices than for  the normal electrical   
   appliances. We taped EVERYTHING! Fidel   
   doesn't trust ANYONE."  He has no friends,never did ...!   
      
   Castro's top intelligence people would gather for the screenings of  these   
   tapes almost like Hollywood types for an upcoming movie. "Hummmm, these   
   scenes are more scandalous than anything in any of her movies!" Fernandez   
   recalls a top intelligence officer chortling while watching the nighttime   
   cavortings of a famous Spanish actress. "Now, it really seems to me,   
   companeros," the Castro intimate chortled as he looked around the room,   
   "that this senora should be making more respectful comments about our   
   regime, right?"   
      
   "But famous Americans are the priority objectives of Castro's intelligence."   
   says Fernandez. "When word came down that models Naomi Campbell and Kate   
   Moss were coming to Cuba the order was a routine one: 24 hour a day   
   vigilance. Then we got a PRIORITY alert, " recalls Fernandez, "because there   
   was a rumor that they would be sharing a room with Leonardo Di Caprio. The   
   rumor set off a flurry of activity and we set up the most sophisticated   
   devices we had."   
      
   "The American actor Jack Nicholson was another celebrity who was bugged and   
   taped THROUGHLY during his stay in the hotel Meliá Cohiba," states   
   Fernandez, the man in charge of the bugging.   
      
   Turns out, however, that at least one visiting dignitary foiled Castro's   
   intelligence. On his visit to Cuba in 1998, Pope John Paul's assistants   
   discovered and removed several bugging devices from his Holiness' hotel   
   room.  Perhaps Castro had a grudge against the Papacy. Most don't recall,   
   but in Janurary 1962 Pope John XXIII ex-communicated Fidel Castro from the   
   Catholic Church. It seemed fitting, considering the hundreds of Cuban men   
   and boys crumpling to Castro's firing squads while yelling "Long Live Christ   
   the King!" during their last   
   seconds alive.   
      
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   Humberto Fontova is the author of " Fidel; Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant,"   
   described as "absolutely devastating. An enlightening read you'll never   
   forget" by David Limbaugh. "A remarkable book," says Phil Brennan. "An   
   eye-opener. Fontova explodes myth after myth." David Horowitz says:   
   "Humberto Fontova has performed a valuable service to the cause of decency   
   and human freedom. Every American should read this book."   
      
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