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The US
imperialism never stops trying to overthrow governments all over the
world that will not comply to its desires. After 2010, this is a
second – by means of Internet control and manipulation - attempt
against Cuba:
The US
State Department announced a new program called 'The Cuba Internet
Task Force'. The Task Force will consist of the US government and
non-governmental representatives to "promote the free and
unregulated flow of information in Cuba". It is part of the
National Security Presidential Memorandum of "strengthening
the policy of the United States toward Cuba", that was
issued by President Trump in June 2017.
This
policy seeks "advancing Cuban human rights; encouraging the
growth of a Cuban private sector independent of government control;
enforcing final orders of removal against Cuban nationals in the
United States".
The US
has sought to overthrow the Cuban government ever since the 1959
revolution. This is not the first time the US has attempted to use
social media to agitate for regime change. In 2010, the Obama
administration attempted and failed to stir unrest in Cuba through a
fake Twitter-like text message service.
As
reported by The
Guardian in 2014:
In July
2010, Joe McSpedon, a US government official, flew to Barcelona to
put the final touches on a secret plan to build a social media
project aimed at undermining Cuba's communist government.
McSpedon
and his team of high-tech contractors had come in from Costa Rica and
Nicaragua, Washington and Denver. Their mission: to launch a
messaging network that could reach hundreds of thousands of Cubans.
To hide the network from the Cuban government, they would set up a
byzantine system of front companies using a Cayman Islands bank
account, and recruit unsuspecting executives who would not be told of
the company's ties to the US government.
McSpedon
didn't work for the CIA. This was a program paid for and run by the
US Agency for International Development, best known for overseeing
billions of dollars in US humanitarian aid.
[...]
Documents
show the US government planned to build a subscriber base through
"non-controversial content": news messages on soccer,
music, and hurricane updates. Later when the network reached a
critical mass of subscribers, perhaps hundreds of thousands,
operators would introduce political content aimed at inspiring Cubans
to organize "smart mobs" — mass gatherings called at a
moment's notice that might trigger a Cuban spring, or, as one USAid
document put it, "renegotiate the balance of power
between the state and society."
At
its peak, the project drew in more than 40,000 Cubans to share news
and exchange opinions. But its subscribers were never aware it was
created by the US government, or that American contractors were
gathering their private data in the hope that it might be used for
political purposes.
The US
empire has never stopped trying to overthrow the Cuban government
since Fidel Castro years in order to establish a preferable puppet in
power. Recall that, documents from the JFK files that have been
brought to light recently, reveal
a number of provocative operations against Cuba, such as:
- An
apparent plan to use balloons to drop propaganda leaflets over Cuba:
"After considerable discussion, it was agreed that details
should be presented to the Group, to include the content of the
leaflets which would be dropped, and specifics as to the method and
place of launching, the technical details of the release of leaflets,
etc., etc."
- Possible disruption of Cuban
radio and TV broadcasts: "Mr. Murrow explained the
far-reaching reactions that the Cubans could mount against U.S. radio
stations, and said that he felt on balance it would not be profitable
to provoke this kind of electronic warfare."
- Unspecified economic
sabotage actions aimed at "wrecking the Cuban economy."
- The introduction of
biological agents, which would "appear to be of natural
origins" to produce crop failures. One of the members
present, Gen. Carter, "emphasized the extreme sensitivity of
any such operation and the disastrous results that would flow from
something going wrong, particularly if there was obvious attribution
to the U.S." Bundy said he wasn't worried "about any
such sabotage which could clearly be made to appear as the result of
local Cuban disaffection or of a natural disaster, but that the
[U.S.] must avoid external activities such as release of chemicals,
etc., unless they could be completely covered up."
- Infiltrating and
distributing "small explosives or incendiaries" to
(anti-Castro) Cubans. Gen. Carter notes a problem: "the
people have shown no inclination to use such materials despite many
exile claims to the contrary."
The
files brought to surface information about false flag operations that
were also included in the US strategy against Cuba, as the CIA
considered bombing Miami and other cities to
create a terror threat while blaming the government of Cuban
revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.
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