Now that Florida's Corporate Secretary James Uthmeyer is looking into foreign contributions from Cuba and China I want to focus specifically on Cuba and what Marco Rubio quietly spent earlier this year.
In the report he published, he highlighted Cuba's efforts to carry out an "invisible invasion", in which 70 years of spies, bombs and deliberate efforts to turn America against itself.
For nearly seven decades, communist Cuba has waged a sophisticated, low-profile campaign of espionage, support for terrorism, and ideological subversion aimed at the United States.
Spies in the highest corridors of power:.
Cuban agents allegedly infiltrated the State Department, the National Security Council and the Pentagon at the deepest levels, some operating undetected for decades. One agent rose to senior positions in the National Security Council and even became the US ambassador while secretly working for Havana for some 50 years. Victor Manuel Rocha - He was recruited by Cuban intelligence in 1973 while living in Chile. During the following decades, he rose through the ranks of US foreign policy, serving as Director of Inter-American Affairs at the National Security Council and later as US Ambassador to Bolivia. He worked for Havana for about 50 years.
Another was the Defense Intelligence Agency's top expert on Cuba named Ana Belen Montes, who fed secrets—including the identities of undercover police officers—back to the island.
A third State Department official named Walter Kendall Myers spied for nearly 30 years and personally met Fidel Castro.
The report suggests that these high-profile cases are only the visible end of a much larger network.
Inflammation of violence on American streets:.
Havana is named directly in the report for recruiting, training and backing radical groups that have carried out waves of attacks inside the United States.
The report connects Cuban support to organizations that were behind about 2,500 bombings on US soil in just two years in the early 1970s.