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| Super-spy Vilma drops cover |
| 2003-04-29 |
| A top Cuban dissident has revealed herself to have been a longstanding spy for Fidel Castro's security service infiltrated into the opposition movement. Most Cubans knew of Aleida Godinez, but not her codename "Agent Vilma". Her cover was blown after 78 political activists and journalists were detained and jailed earlier this month for between six and 28 years for 'anti-state' activities. Godinez had been secretary-general of the Cuban Independent Federation of Trade Unions and editor-in-chief of the dissident magazine "Lux", which was printed in Miami and brought into Cuba in the US diplomatic bag. Godinez said her double-life of nearly 13 years had required a "great personal sacrifice", but had resulted in a "fatal blow against subversion in Cuba". "The evil known as dissidence can no longer act with impunity as it has done until now," she said. She's a true believer Through her anti-Castro sham, Godinez became a close confidante of leading dissident economist Marta Beatriz Roque, who was sentenced this month to 20 years in jail - and was leader of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society. But, speaking in her 'true' voice, Godinez dismissed the anti-Castro opposition as "mercenaries" on Washington's payroll. "They are not dissidents, because dissidents are those who do not agree with the policies of the Cuban revolution; these people are mercenaries because they receive money from the United States," she said. In her guise as a dissident leader, she won the confidence of US officials at the US interests section in Havana, where she claims to have had a permanent access pass since 1996. No doubt there will be a few red faces at State, oh wait.... She said the US government "organises, directs and finances the counter-revolution in Cuba", with certain groups having received up to $35 000 (about R256 000) a month from USAid, the US government agency for international development, along with computers, fax machines and tape recorders. The Cuban government has long accused the US diplomatic office of funding the opposition to the communist authorities. State prosecutors accused the dissidents jailed this month of acting as a US "fifth column" to conspire against Castro. Agent Vilma's revelation is one of several orchestrated by the Cuban government after last month's crackdown. Public television has shown extended footage of revelations by other double-agents, portraying them as "heroes" and the "true face of the country" who "exposed the unpatriotic attitude" of "counter-revolutionary elements". Cubans have also learned about 'Agent Ernesto', or Pedro Luis Veliz, a doctor, who infiltrated the dissident movement in 1996; and also 'Agent Tania' or Odilia Collazo, whose double identity was president of the Party of the Rights of Man. No wonder Fidel has lasted so long. Veliz said the US interests section had sought to destroy the Cuban health system, regularly held up as one of the communist government's top achievements. Collazo said she had been "proud to have followed in the footsteps of my father" who, she added, was also an undercover agent. Oliver Stone will be after the movie rights to her "heroic" story. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 Damn I know so well how things were in communist East Germany. You didn't trust anyone but some very close friends. And then on a cold morning at 4am some people knock at your door and a few days later you find out that one of your best friends has betrayed you for years, telling every word you ever said to the Stasi (East German intelligence). I don't know how much you can blame the U.S. interest section in Havana. Communist traitors are very smart unfortunately. But I wouldn't recommend to hire any Cuban for anything intelligence related, as trustworthy as he or she may seem. The best guy for the job will work for Castro probably. |
| Posted by: True German Ally 2003-04-29 12:14:49 |
| #4 State has to be completely dismantled before it can be rebuilt correctly. |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2003-04-29 11:55:04 |
| #3 In fake news today, Aleida Godinez, also known as "Agent Vilma" to her god-like, communist patron, attended a protest rally alongside Michael Moore, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon and other notable Hollywood power players. "We hope that this will be a fatal blow against subversion in America," said Robbins, whose face-time on television has increased since the United States' Despot-In-Chief began his crackdown on Robbins' right to speak freely in public. The floor was then given to Godinez, who praised Castro, damned Bush, and then said "The evil known as dissidence can no longer act with impunity as it has done until now." She then took out a pistol and shot Robbins in the head, an act that was deemed "sheer bravery in the face of a hostile universe" by a remarkably confused but sincere Sarandon. Not all the celebrities in attendance were equally enthused. "Fuck you, ya lunatic," said Moore. "Dissent against the system is what keeps me rolling in the green. Hey! That's a pun! Get it? Green? Man, I LOVE our system! Oh, and I hate it, too." The other celebrities attending the rally clearly didn't know what to think. Janeane Garafalo, however, had a startling confession. "It's because we're idiots," she said. "Don't expect any apologies, though. Bush is still at least as evil as the Great Satan (whom I thank for my career) himself, and surely it should be obvious to all by now that the fact that we are here being upset about our temporarily dwindling fan base is proof enough that under Bush our wonderful country has become as soaked in genodical/political blood as Burundi, Sudan, the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Algeria, Liberia, Uganda, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Congo-Brazzaville, the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Ertirea, Equatorial Ginuea, Senegal - Cosamance, Kenya, Angola, Chad, Morocco and the Western Sahara, Mali, Mozambique, Madagascar, South Africa, Botswana, Eqypt, Columbia, Venezuela, Brazil, Cuba - I mean, NOT Cuba, Argentina, Chile, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Paraguay, Mexico and the Chiapas, North Korea, India, Kashmir, China, Sri Lanka, Burma, Indonesia, the Phillipines, Napal, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Tibet, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, all four freakin' Vietnams, Laos, East Timor, Russia and Chechnya, Yugoslavia and the whole Kosovo Kroatia Serbia Bosnia thing, Macedonia, Georgia and Abkhasia, Northern Irleand, the old USSR against Crimea Dagestan and Ingushetia, Israel and Palestine, Iraq - no, wait!, I mean . . . anyways . . . Turkey, Syria, Iran, Cyprus, and Lebanon, and that's just since the end of World War II. I'm serious; today, it's some right-wing yahoo saying 'don't go to her movies!' but tomorrow - or possibly today - this nation's refusal to embrace its celebrities will result in the spilled blood of millions!!!!!!!" |
| Posted by: FormerLiberal 2003-04-29 11:51:32 |
| #2 More ammo to beat up those striped pants appeasers at Dept of State. Bush needs to take a firehose to that place. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2003-04-29 11:13:10 |
| #1 And how many agents were in the boats coming over from Marial? |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-04-29 11:11:19 |