Cuban Institute's Role in U.S. Relations

So far, we've looked at the American side, DSA, NNOC, Hato, People's

Forum. But what happens when organizations in this American

network

interact with institutions inside Cuba?

Who are those institutions? Who runs those?

And what can we actually document about those relationships?

Because one Cuban institution

has, well, let's just call it an interesting

relationship with this insane network.

It's ICAP, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with

the Peoples. From NNOC's own website, they state, quote,

"Each year, the NNOC works with ICAP, the Cuban

Institute of Friendship with the Peoples."

Why is this interesting?

Maybe due to this.

In June, the United States Treasury Department did

something

significant. It put ICAP

on its sanctions program.

The president of ICAP is somebody named Fernando Gonzalez

Lort. Who is he?

ICAP is the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, a Cuban

state-linked organization that works with foreign solidarity groups.

And Fernando Gonzalez Lort has a history with Cuban intelligence.

The Fernando you speak of is a member of the Cuban WASP network,

which is a network of what we can call

Cuban-aligned people, five of them allegedly

participating in espionage activities.

He was convicted, but later became the president of Cuban

state organization

ICAP. ICAP is where the Cuba side of this

network begins to

connect with American organizations because it's essentially the Cuban

government interfaced with National Network on Cuba.

The National Network on Cuba, the one that's linked to DSA,

the Hato Project, and more, is the American side you need to

remember here.

What this proves is, you know, there's a lot of state connections

when all those

far-left organizations make trips to Cuba and are facilitated by this

ICAP.

And it's not benign.

He's one of the Cuban Five, the defendants associated with

Cuba's WASP network.

What is that? U.S. Department court records describe the

members of that

network as operatives of Cuba's Directorate of Intelligence.

What is that?

That is the Cuban version of the Soviet Union's

KGB. It's Cuba's main foreign intelligence

service. American organizations in this coalition

are in bed with the Cuban KGB.

I don't know. That's kind of crazy.

Try this. Back in July, the State Department released a report on

Cuba calling the

failed communist state, quote, the capital of 21st century

communism. In this report, the State Department listed multiple

groups,

many of them you've heard about tonight.

They are National Lawyers Guild, the People's Forum, Tri-Continental,

Code Pink, IFCO, Pastors for Peace, Global Exchange,

DSA. Several of these organizations appear on

NNOC's

current membership roster. And in the organization that works

with the other group, ICAP, whose leadership

is the Cuban Five.

Cuban Five,

KGB.

So does it surprise you with all these shady connections?

Would it surprise you to learn that all of these groups

Marco Rubio's State Department has identified, they all

have traceable U.S. nonprofit dollars?

Let's recap. Here's the picture. ICAP is the Cuban

state-linked organization on one side.

NNOC is the U.S. coalition it works with on the other.

Several American groups called out by the State Department are members of

NNOC. And those groups have traceable U.S.

nonprofit funding behind them. And remember, some of

that nonprofit funding

is thanks to those fiscal sponsorships we already explained.

18 million, I believe, is the money flowing into organizations

that are

involved in some way with foreign governments, hostile foreign

governments, with Cuba and Venezuela and the like.

18 million sounds small, but if you think about it, that's a

lot of people who are involved in taking trips

to hostile nations and taking those trips to do

things like revolutionary training and

some cases terrorist training and bringing that information back

to America.

Nearly $19 million spread out between all of them

in U.S. nonprofit money.

This is not money delivered to Cuba.

This is merely some of the dollars that are floating around within this

entire monstrous network. And the DSA

operates, as we've explored tonight, within this network.