Cuba’s Greatest Weapon Isn’t Missiles: State Dept

A few months back, when President Trump first began to float the idea publicly of taking over the island of Cuba using military force, if need be, many people were understandably surprised. It really seemed to come out of nowhere. However, since then, both Trump as well as the State Department has been out there putting out reports and statements and speeches, making the case for why Cuba is such a threat to the U.S. domestically, calling the regime an espionage superpower. To that end, you have President Trump just earlier this week at the U.N. summit say the following. My administration is also seeking a fundamental change in the situation in Cuba, where the communist regime is under great pressure, the biggest pressure they've ever been under. It's an absolutely failed state. It's failing like never before, and it will fall. Marco Rubio is handling a negotiation. He's deep into negotiations with Cuba. Let's see what happens. We'll not allow a haven for foreign adversaries to threaten America on our own doorstep, right at our doorstep. The Cuban regime has also spent decades coordinating with the left-wing radicals and communist networks here in the United States. As our State Department has detailed, they've cultivated ties to subversive and radical groups such as the Communist Party USA, Antifa, and the Democrat Socialists of America. Communism will never be coming to America, but freedom will be coming to Cuba. Likewise, there was a recent report put out by the State Department which said that the Cuban regime has been waging a 70-year-long war against the U.S. Obviously not with kinetic weapons, but instead, I guess you can say using the dark arts of sabotage and subversion, propping up anti-U.S. socialists in Central and South America, sending over spies who then spend decades hidden inside of America with top-secret security clearances. And then lastly, there is what the State Department calls Cuba's greatest weapon, the ability to control people, American people, in our own cities and our own towns through ideological alignment. It's essentially the old Soviet tactic of, hey, if you hate American imperialism, work for Cuba behind the scenes and we'll help you to topple it. And apparently it's been effective. And so let's go through it all together. And please do stay to the end of the video because I have a little bit of a surprise for you. But before we dive into it, please do smash those like and subscribe buttons so the algorithm can pick up the video and share it out to ever more people. Thank you so much for that. Now, to start with, the Secretary of State, Mr. Marco Rubio, who by the way, is himself ethnically Cuban and he's not a fan of the regime. He recently referred to Cuba as a spying superpower. Here's Rubio speaking on Fox News just a few weeks ago. A failed state 90 miles from our shores that happens to be aligned with adversaries to the United States is a national security threat to our country. Mr. Rubio then went on to say that Cuba has had a long history of spying on America and is working with our biggest adversaries, such as the Communist Party of China, to spy on us. As one example of many, and we cover this in much greater depth than a prior episode, the Chinese have set up installations on the island of Cuba in order to spy on the American military in the south of the homeland, in Florida, Texas, Louisiana, as well as in South Carolina. If you want to check out that earlier episode, I'll link it down below. However, just a few months back, the State Department released a report titled Cuba, the Capital of 21st Century Communism, which is a funny thing to say because, I mean, likely China is really the capital of 21st century communism. Regardless, though, the report says that Havana's foreign intelligence agency is one of the most effective in the world and their focus is on an existential revolution against the United States. The report details Cuba's infiltration of several key U.S. security bodies, including the Department of State as well as the Department of War, the Pentagon. Regardless of which agency in the government it is, though, the aim is basically the same, to covertly influence American foreign policy and to gather as much information as humanly possible. All right, just to pause here for a super quick moment. If you've watched our program, Facts Matter, then you know that we focus on one thing, which is the facts, not speculation, not narratives, just what the data shows. And right now, the data globally is pointing in a direction people should really be paying attention to, which is the fact that global conflicts are fueling market uncertainty. 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We've had them penetrate the highest levels of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Ana Belen Montes was one of the single biggest intelligence failures on the part of the United States and one of the biggest penetrations we ever had in our system. Now, in that clip, Marco Rubio was referring to the former U.S. ambassador, Mr. Victor Manuel Roca, and he was previously the U.S. ambassador to Bolivia. But then later he pled guilty to being a Cuban spy and was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison in 2024. That's where he is at this moment. The other person that he referenced, Ms. Ana Belen Montes, was a top Pentagon Cuba analyst who was also a double agent and whose spying was at least said to have contributed to several deaths of U.S. military personnel. And so his point isn't exactly that the quantity of these agents is great. It's rather the quality. You have agents hidden at some of the highest levels of the U.S. government, which shows us why the State Department is taking Cuba so seriously. You had former CIA counterintelligence chief, Mr. James Olsen, say the following on the matter, quote, And they're good at the subtle arts, which really brings us back to the crux of the matter. That report from the State Department, it said that the Cuban Communist Party is smart enough to know that they could never defeat the U.S. in a military kinetic battle. But the regime doesn't fight us with physical weapons, with bombs and warships. They rely instead on the darker arts, covert intelligence operations, as well as subversion, including sabotage, sponsoring proxy networks, hosting fugitive extremist groups and training far left guerrilla movements that then go to either Central or South America or sometimes even back home to the U.S. Furthermore, the State Department is making the argument that Cuba is playing both sides. They act as a beacon for people who are already ideologically anti-American, but also they are running this long term ideological campaign to demoralize the U.S. and convert more people to the anti-American cause. They're basically involved in both the supply and demand of anti-American sentiment within the borders of the U.S. All throughout Latin America, every communist left wing insurgency that's destabilized governments across the region, every single one of them over the last 40, 50 years has found its support, its help, in many cases, its birth from a Cuban influence operation. Furthermore, as President Trump alluded to in that U.N. speech, the State Department report says that Cuban intelligence has been cultivating relationships with many American organizations. Quote, The Venceremos Brigade, described in one Senate report as among the most extensive and dangerous infiltration operations ever undertaken by a foreign power against the United States, has brought some 10,000 American activists to Cuba since its first contingent in 1969. Now, to give you both sides, Cuba frames their campaign as a fight against American imperialism, American colonialism and against racial oppression. And they capture the hearts and minds of those who are already on American soil using left wing protest movements inside the U.S. to leverage political dissent. And to that end, the State Department report names several prominent U.S. progressive antiwar and socialist organizations who are aligned with the Cuban regime. They're not calling those people in those organizations out and out as being Cuban agents, but instead they're saying that their political rhetoric, their anti-embargo campaigns and the delegation trips to Havana that they're taking are exactly in line with Cuban state interests. Now, one of those groups, the Democratic Socialists of America, who are really having a moment right now, they have issued statements saying basically strongly rejecting the claims that they're in bed with the Cuban government and saying instead that the State Department report is just reviving this Cold War era Red Scare campaign with the ultimate goal being to delegitimize domestic political dissent, criminalizing free speech and smearing oppositions to the current administration and to U.S. policy as basically by saying that that person, if they're criticizing the government, is acting as a subversive foreign element. Now, I will mention that both things could be true simultaneously, by the way. And as just one example of how they could both be true, you probably remember the 2020 BLM protests and you probably in your own life know someone or several people who partook in those protests because they genuinely believed in the BLM ethos and the BLM cause of the 2020s. But among other things, the State Department report, it says that protests like those were backed by Havana in order to foment social unrest here in the U.S. It's the same network of protesters around the country. They were the same people you saw on the streets burning things in 2020. They didn't flip it around and they become the pro-Hamas protesters and they flip it around. And within 48 hours of Maduro's arrest, have pre-printed signs outside the courthouse demanding his release. Then they're out there doing the ICE stuff, attacking ICE agents. There's nothing organic about it. It is funded, it is organized, and Cuba is a part of that network and in some cases a critical part of that network. And it's a network they will weaponize against us. Now, in order to get a better glimpse into the regime, we here at The Epoch Times, we sat down with Fidel Castro's own daughter and she peeled back for us the curtain on what the Cuban regime is really like, as well as why even she, the daughter of Fidel Castro himself, had to put on a disguise and pretend to be a tourist in order to escape Cuba, flee to Europe and eventually come to America and then become basically an anti regime activist. It's a phenomenal interview that will give you a lot of color on this particular issue. And if you want to check it out, you can watch it exclusively over at The Epoch Times. I'll throw the link to it. You can find it down in the description box below. Check it out, because again, Fidel Castro's own daughter, first of all, she has a great glimpse into what the regime was really like. She had a very kind of unique position in this in this system where she was Fidel Castro's own daughter. But I guess within a communist system, everyone's supposed to be treated equally. So anyway, her take on it is phenomenal. But then also she's very clear eyed about what's happening. It's not like she has these rose colored glasses. She's very clear eyed about what communism is and what it does to the soul of the souls of the people in that society. So I would highly recommend that interview. And then also leave your thoughts in the comments section below. What do you make of the basically argument that the democratic socialists of America are making to oppose what the State Department is saying? That basically they're in line with the Cuban regime. And Trump also made that same same declaration during his U.N. speech. But they're saying, wait, hold on. This is just a power grab in order to crack down on domestic opposition to the administration. Do you think both things are true? Do you think it doesn't matter because they are in line with the Cuban regime? Leave your thoughts in the comments. It's a it's a fascinating issue because it does touch on very fundamental questions of what the U.S. is and whether socialists are able to use our free system to do what they do and to convert our society slowly but surely more and more socialists, maybe one city at a time. So, yeah, leave your thoughts in the comments regarding what you think and then smash those like and subscribe buttons if you haven't already. And then until next time, I'm your host, Roman from The Epoch Times. Stay informed. Most importantly, stay free. I remember the first time I met Fidel Castro. It was very bizarre for me. Always felt more as a Cuban, as a woman, as a mother than as a daughter. My mother was so obsessed with the revolution and the revolution process that she really became absent. She was really obsessed. It's a mystery for me. Sympathizers of the communist regime exist everywhere. But nobody is really interested in the truth. They are masters in using the words to manipulate people. I felt very isolated. I was scared. I was sleepless. Why communism is not working for people. This regime has a way of instigating the darkest instinct in human beings. People have no right under a communist regime. You don't have freedom. You don't have choices. You're not allowed to have a religion. I mean, it's so oppressive. I thought that maybe he will carry the regime with him to the throne. But it didn't happen. And what is your dream for Cuba? They're going to be able to breathe in freedom.