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Leader of Exile Group Tells of Spying for Cuba
By LARRY ROHTER,
Published: November 11, 1992
MIAMI, Nov. 10— The commander of one of the most militant Cuban exile organizations stunned the anti-Castro movement this week by announcing that he had worked as a spy for Cuba since 1979.
But equally surprising, the man, Francisco Avila Azcuy, also says he has been providing the American Government with information on the Cuba's spy network in the United States and on the activities of various anti-Castro exile groups.
Mr. Avila, who is chief of operations for Alpha 66, a paramilitary group that has organized attacks against Cuba from American shores and that advocates the overthrow of the country's Communist regime, discussed his role as a double agent with a Spanish-language television station in Miami in
interviews that are being broadcast this week.
In the interviews, Mr. Avila said that among other things he had organized Alpha 66 attacks on Cuba at the behest of the Cuban Government with money supplied by Cuban intelligence agents and that he was asked to monitor the activities of prominent Cuban exiles in Miami.He said he had decided to make his role public rather than wait for it to become known if the Castro Government fell. Embarrassment to Castro
Mr. Avila's account, if true, of how Havana created its own enemies to justify its repressive policies is a major embarrassment for the Castro Government. It also tarnishes the image of exile commando groups that portray themselves as the Castro Government's most-feared enemies but who may have been sustained by it.
United States Government agencies have so far refused to confirm or deny the details of Mr. Avila's tale of espionage and betrayal. But the State Department today told a Cuban diplomat who was videotaped by the station while discussing spy missions with Mr. Avila in a Queens restaurant last month that he must leave the country within 48 hours. The tapes are to be broadcast as part of the television station's series.
The Cuban official, Carlos Manuel Collazo Usallan, is assigned to the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in Manhattan, with the nominal rank of third secretary. Richard Boucher, a State Department spokesman, said today that Mr. Collazo was being expelled because of "activities inappropriate to his responsibilities at the United Nations," a phrase typically used to describe espionage.
In six hours of interviews with reporters from WSCV-TV, the Miami affiliate of the Telemundo television network, Mr. Avila said the Cuban Government had given him money to help finance the activities of Alpha 66, including thousands of dollars to buy a boat that was used in attacks on Cuba. Reports Lead to Trial
As early as January 1981, Mr. Avila said in an interview to be broadcast later this week, he helped organize an Alpha 66 raid on Cuba, with the knowledge and support of Cuban agents. But he said he also informed American officials of the planned attack, and they moved against organizers of the raid before it could be undertaken.
As a result, seven people were convicted of violating provisions of the Neutrality Act that prohibit the organization of attacks on foreign governments from American soil. "Better 18 months in an American prison than to be shot or jailed in Cuba," Mr. Avila said in justifying his reporting the plan.
More recently, Mr. Avila said, Cuban intelligence agents operating under diplomatic cover had asked him to gather information on the personal lives and habits of 40 prominent anti-Castro figures in the United States. He said he had also been asked to gather intelligence on a site in the Florida Keys used by the United States Government to broadcast anti-Castro news and entertainment programs by television to Cuba, perhaps for an attack on the source of the broadcasts.
The broadcast on Monday night of the first report based on interviews with Mr. Avila had immediate repercussions among Cuban exile groups here. His confession that he was a Cuban spy was the main topic on Spanish-language radio stations here, with reporters and panelists arguing that the 40 names were part of an assassination list and wondering how many other spies could still be operating inside exile groups.
Mr. Avila told the television reporters that he came to the United States from Cuba as a teen-ager in the early 1960's, and soon afterwards joined Alpha 66. In 1967, he was sent to Cuba on an infiltration and sabotage mission, but was captured, tried and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
While serving his sentence, Mr. Avila said, he was approached by the D.G.I., the Cuban intelligence agency, and asked to become a spy. He said he readily agreed, to gain his release. "Getting inside them was one way to continue the struggle against them," he said.
Mr. Avila asserts that not long after his return here, he contacted what he described as an "American counterintelligence agency" and was almost immediately put to work as a double agent. The programs' producers said Mr. Avila led them to believe that he was speaking of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose responsibilities include monitoring foreign spy activities in the United States. A spokesman for the agency, Bill Carter, declined to comment on Mr. Avila's story.
Photo: Francisco Avila Azcuy being interviewed on a Spanish-language television station in Miami. (WSCV-TV).
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17 de junio, 2024
La Isla de los Espías: Revelamos grabaciones de conversaciones secretas de agentes de Cuba en EEUU
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Nota del Bloguista de Baracutey Cubano
Como destruir un país: Cortina de humo para esconder el fracazo de la zafra de los 10 millones.
El 19 de mayo pasado se cumplió medio siglo del anuncio por Fidel Castro del fracaso de obtener 10 millones de toneladas métricas de azúcar en la zafra 1969-1970. La dictadura había volcado casi todos los esfuerzos del país, acompañados de grandes errores de todo tipo, para conseguir ese año una zafra con 10 millones de toneladas desoyendo lo que afirmaban especialistas cubanos del exterior de la isla y hasta Orlando Borrego, entonces Ministro del Azúcar, quien le había dicho a Fidel Castro que no se cumpliría ese objetivo, lo cual tuvo como consecuencia que fuera defenestrado de su cargo de ministro.
La organización Alfa 66 ha sido penetrada en varias ocasiones por la Seguridad cubana y se dice que algunos de esos individuos infiltrados promovieron e incentivaron, a solicitud de la tiranía de los Castro, acciones de autoagresión en Cuba en determinados y concretos momentos de la situación cubana. Un ejemplo sobre esa actividad orientada desde Cuba parece haber sido el secuestro de 11 pescadores en 1970, el cual se dice que se llevó a cabo para anunciar el fracaso de la zafra de los 10 millones de toneladas de azúcar; a los pescadores no les pasó absolutamente nada durante el secuestro, pues llegaron a Cuba sanos y salvos.
Yo dirigí las escuadrillas de MIG-21 encargadas de la búsqueda de los rehenes. Como los vuelos los estaríamos realizando sobre el territorio de las Bahamas llegando incluso a solo tres millas de Miami, le pregunté al Comandante en Jefe qué orden debía cumplir en caso de encuentro con la aviación de caza de Estados Unidos.
— “¿Que vas a hacer? Pues combatir”, me respondió?.
Lo que me puso a pensar, al poco tiempo de aquel episodio sobre Bahamas, fue la extraña coincidencia de que toda esta crisis coincidía con el fracaso de la famosa Zafra de los 10 millones y que, al producirse el regreso de los pescadores secuestrados, se aprovechó el acto de masas que se llevó a cabo para recibirlos para anunciar también el estruendoso fracaso de dicha zafra.
No debemos olvidar que la tiranía usó frecuentemente barcos pesqueros y mercantes para su actividad subversiva por todo el mundo y en particular en el continente americano. Dos ejemplos fueron el barco pesquero Alecrin en Venezuela y los barcos mercantes que llevaron tropas, equipos y material bélico desde Cuba para Angola durante la Guerra en Angola.
En 1998 el doble agente Francisco Ávila Azcuy declaró que la Inteligencia Castrista le dió 12 000 dólares para que comprara una lancha para que atacara a Cuba. Francisco Ávila era el Jefe militar de la organización antiCastrista Alfa 66 ya que había sido reclutado por la Inteligencia Castrista en 1980, año en que empezó a trabajar también con el FBI. Francisco Ávila había sido capturado en Cuba en 1967 y fue excarcelado y enviado a los EE.uu. en 1979. En Crackdown may signal new tactics puede leerse más sobre Francisco Ávila al igual que en Cuban U.N. Diplomat Expelled After TV Spy Revelation
In the interviews, Mr. Avila said that among other things he had organized Alpha 66 attacks on Cuba at the behest of the Cuban Government with money supplied by Cuban intelligence agents and that he was asked to monitor the activities of prominent Cuban exiles in Miami
Recuerdo cuando a principios de los años 90s del pasado siglo XX, en el momento más terrible del mal llamado ¨Período Especial¨, Jorge Enrique Mendoza (ex capitán del Ejercito Rebelde, ex director del diario Granma y entonces Director del Instituto de Historia de la Revolución Cubana) después de concluida un conversatorio o conferencia en el centro de educación superior en que yo trabajaba en Cuba, él le expresó a un ex combatiente y entonces profesor de marxismo: ¡Qué falta hace una agresión para unir a este pueblo !
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Leader of Exile Group Tells of Spying for Cuba
By LARRY ROHTER,
Published: November 11, 1992
MIAMI, Nov. 10— The commander of one of the most militant Cuban exile organizations stunned the anti-Castro movement this week by announcing that he had worked as a spy for Cuba since 1979.
But equally surprising, the man, Francisco Avila Azcuy, also says he has been providing the American Government with information on the Cuba's spy network in the United States and on the activities of various anti-Castro exile groups.
Mr. Avila, who is chief of operations for Alpha 66, a paramilitary group that has organized attacks against Cuba from American shores and that advocates the overthrow of the country's Communist regime, discussed his role as a double agent with a Spanish-language television station in Miami in
interviews that are being broadcast this week.In the interviews, Mr. Avila said that among other things he had organized Alpha 66 attacks on Cuba at the behest of the Cuban Government with money supplied by Cuban intelligence agents and that he was asked to monitor the activities of prominent Cuban exiles in Miami.He said he had decided to make his role public rather than wait for it to become known if the Castro Government fell. Embarrassment to Castro
Mr. Avila's account, if true, of how Havana created its own enemies to justify its repressive policies is a major embarrassment for the Castro Government. It also tarnishes the image of exile commando groups that portray themselves as the Castro Government's most-feared enemies but who may have been sustained by it.
United States Government agencies have so far refused to confirm or deny the details of Mr. Avila's tale of espionage and betrayal. But the State Department today told a Cuban diplomat who was videotaped by the station while discussing spy missions with Mr. Avila in a Queens restaurant last month that he must leave the country within 48 hours. The tapes are to be broadcast as part of the television station's series.
The Cuban official, Carlos Manuel Collazo Usallan, is assigned to the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in Manhattan, with the nominal rank of third secretary. Richard Boucher, a State Department spokesman, said today that Mr. Collazo was being expelled because of "activities inappropriate to his responsibilities at the United Nations," a phrase typically used to describe espionage.
In six hours of interviews with reporters from WSCV-TV, the Miami affiliate of the Telemundo television network, Mr. Avila said the Cuban Government had given him money to help finance the activities of Alpha 66, including thousands of dollars to buy a boat that was used in attacks on Cuba. Reports Lead to Trial
As early as January 1981, Mr. Avila said in an interview to be broadcast later this week, he helped organize an Alpha 66 raid on Cuba, with the knowledge and support of Cuban agents. But he said he also informed American officials of the planned attack, and they moved against organizers of the raid before it could be undertaken.
As a result, seven people were convicted of violating provisions of the Neutrality Act that prohibit the organization of attacks on foreign governments from American soil. "Better 18 months in an American prison than to be shot or jailed in Cuba," Mr. Avila said in justifying his reporting the plan.
More recently, Mr. Avila said, Cuban intelligence agents operating under diplomatic cover had asked him to gather information on the personal lives and habits of 40 prominent anti-Castro figures in the United States. He said he had also been asked to gather intelligence on a site in the Florida Keys used by the United States Government to broadcast anti-Castro news and entertainment programs by television to Cuba, perhaps for an attack on the source of the broadcasts.
The broadcast on Monday night of the first report based on interviews with Mr. Avila had immediate repercussions among Cuban exile groups here. His confession that he was a Cuban spy was the main topic on Spanish-language radio stations here, with reporters and panelists arguing that the 40 names were part of an assassination list and wondering how many other spies could still be operating inside exile groups.
Mr. Avila told the television reporters that he came to the United States from Cuba as a teen-ager in the early 1960's, and soon afterwards joined Alpha 66. In 1967, he was sent to Cuba on an infiltration and sabotage mission, but was captured, tried and sentenced to 25 years in prison.
While serving his sentence, Mr. Avila said, he was approached by the D.G.I., the Cuban intelligence agency, and asked to become a spy. He said he readily agreed, to gain his release. "Getting inside them was one way to continue the struggle against them," he said.
Mr. Avila asserts that not long after his return here, he contacted what he described as an "American counterintelligence agency" and was almost immediately put to work as a double agent. The programs' producers said Mr. Avila led them to believe that he was speaking of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose responsibilities include monitoring foreign spy activities in the United States. A spokesman for the agency, Bill Carter, declined to comment on Mr. Avila's story.
Photo: Francisco Avila Azcuy being interviewed on a Spanish-language television station in Miami. (WSCV-TV).
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