FBI First Most Wanted Female Terrorist Joanne Chesimard Laughing From Cuba

Joanne Chesimard, 57, was convicted in 1973 of killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster as he lay on the ground. (Photo: AP)
 

"This week (May 8 2013) the FBI announced a $1 million reward for "information leading to the apprehension" of Joanne Chesimard also known as Assata Shakur who they named a "Most Wanted Terrorist." Chesimard is the first woman to make the FBI's list. The New Jersey State Police also wants her and added another $1 million to the pot.
 

Convicted cop-killer (of a New Jersey State-Trooper) and "domestic terrorist" Chesimard has been living in Cuba since 1984 as a Castro-coddled celebrity of sorts. And it's not like bounty hunters can operate freely in a Stalinist country. So the $2 million may be symbolic, as in the U.S. Justice Department is putting on a game face and saying: "Look Castro, we're serious here!"
 

In the early 1970's Chesimard belonged to a Black Panther offshoot known as the Black Liberation Army. "This case is just as important today as it was when it happened 40 years ago," according to a recent press release from Mike Rinaldi, of the New Jersey State Police.

"Chesimard was a member of the Black Liberation Army, a radical left wing terror group that felt justified killing law enforcement officers...This group conducted assaults on police stations and murdered police officers."
 

More than a mere member of these domestic terrorists, Chesimard was described by former assistant FBI director John Miller, as "the soul of the Black Liberation Army."

In 1973, while wanted for multiple crimes from bank robbery to murder, Chesimard and two accomplices were pulled over for a tail-light violation on the New Jersey Turnpike. As the troopers were routinely questioning them, Chesimard (who was in the passenger seat) and her pals opened up on the lawmen with semi-auto pistols (no word on whether these were properly registered.)

As trooper Werner Foerster grappled with the driver, Chesimard shot him twice-then her gun apparently jammed. As Foerster lay on the ground wounded and helpless, Chesimard grabbed the trooper's own gun and blasted two shots into his head, much in the manner of her Cuban idols Che Guevara and Raul Castro murdering hundreds of their own (always defenseless at the time) "counter-revolutionary" enemies.

"This crime was always considered an act of domestic terrorism," stresses Mike Rinaldi.
She escaped but was captured in 1977, convicted of murder and sentenced to life plus 33 years. Then in 1979 she escaped from prison-with some ultra-professional help, probably by Cuban or Cuban-trained terrorists. "Two men smuggled into the prison, took guards hostages and broke her out," explained John Miller to CBS News.

Chesimard's 1979 escape from prison was well planned, Rinaldi explained. "Armed domestic terrorists gained entry into the facility, neutralized the guards, broke her free, and turned her over to a nearby getaway team."

"In 1984, they smuggled her to Mexico. Using a network of Cuban intelligence officers who worked with American radical groups, they got her into Cuba," adds former Asst. FBI Director John Miller.
Since then, according to New Jersey State Police Col. Rick Fuentes, Chesimard "flaunts her freedom....To this day from her safe haven in Cuba Chesimard has been given a pulpit (by Castro) to preach and profess, stirring supporters and groups to mobilize against the United States by any means necessary.

She has been used by the Castro regime to greet foreign delegations visiting Cuba."
"Joanne Chesimard is a domestic terrorist," declared FBI agent Aaron T. Ford, during a recent news conference. "She absolutely is a threat to America."

Along with coddling Chesimard, Castro's fiefdom provides haven for over 70 fugitives from U.S. law, including several on the FBI's most wanted listed. Cuba harbors convicted cop-killers Michael Finney and Charlie Hill, along with Victor Gerena, responsible for a $7 million heist of a Wells Fargo truck in Connecticut in 1983, as a member of the Puerto Rican terrorist group, Los Macheteros.

All requests by U.S. authorities for these criminals' extradition have been rebuffed, often cheekily by Fidel Castro himself: "They want to portray her as a terrorist, something that was an injustice, a brutality, an infamous lie!" Castro answered a U.S. request for Chesimard on May 3, 2005".

Via Humberto Fontova In The Blaze

Lady In White Leader Berta Soler Endorses Embargo against Castro's Cuba

Damas de Blanco leader Berta Soler Is an afro Cubana who describes the Castro regime as practitioners of state sponsored terrorism against it's own people and forcefully endorses the so called embargo against Castro's Cuba.

Via Mary Anastasia O'Grady In the Wall Street Journal. Hat tip Capitol Hill Cubans

In the debate about whether the U.S. should end what is left of the embargo it has imposed against Cuba for the last half century, the side that wants to lift it often invokes the names of dissidents on the island who agree. But there are also Cuban dissidents who support the embargo because they fear that ending it would strengthen the dictatorship.

One of the most prominent supporters of the embargo was in Washington last week. She is Berta Soler, wife of former political prisoner Angel Moya and a member of the prestigious Ladies in White. Ms. Soler's visit drew attention because what she lacks in support from Washington politicians and lobbyists who want to do business with the dictator she makes up for in moral authority.

Ms. Soler's movement began in 2003 with a handful of women. Each Sunday they attended Mass together at St. Rita's church and then, each carrying a single flower, they walked silently in the streets of Havana to demand the release of their husbands, brothers and sons who were political prisoners. It seemed like a suicide mission. For decades Cuban dissidents have met grisly ends. Many have been murdered, many more have been tortured in prison until they were broken.

Nevertheless the women were able to hold their ground thanks in part to the international recognition they got and the embarrassment they caused the regime. In 2005 they were awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov prize for freedom of thought, though they were denied permission to pick it up. When supporters wielding cell phones took photographs of pro-Castro mobs assaulting the women, the pictures went around the world, further revealing just how nasty and brutish life is in the revolutionary paradise.

In January the regime partially lifted its ban on Cubans traveling outside the island, and earlier this month Ms. Soler was finally given permission to travel with others from the group to Brussels to pick up their Sakharov prize. Then she headed to the U.S.

Last week in a meeting with Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) Ms. Soler explained how important international support is to the cause of liberty in Cuba. "I am looking for moral and spiritual support from governments that love liberty, lovers of peace and from the international community," she said. "The government of Cuba sells an image to foreigners and I bring the true history of my people, because I am a woman who has suffered day after day abuses, beatings only for having expressed myself."

During her visit to Washington, Ms. Soler also alluded to the regime's specious claims that the embargo is what makes Cuba poor: "First, I want to say that the embargo, the blockade, is inside Cuba." As to the U.S. position, she said, "I respect the opinions of everyone in the world, but mine [and] that of the Ladies in White is don't lift the embargo."

Unsealed Indictment reveals another female Puerto Rican Castro Spy

How the Castro regime turns Puerto Ricans against America.The case of Marta Rita Velazquez who was born In the Enchanted Isle & conspired with the terrorist Castro regime In recruiting and Inserting fellow convicted spy Ana Belen Montes Into key US government posts, Is another cryptic example.

Via our Facebook page Freedom For Cuba News & Analysis

"The charges against Velazquez stem from, among other things, her alleged role in introducing Ana Belen Montes, now 55, to the Cuban Intelligence Service (CuIS) in 1984; in facilitating Montes’s recruitment by the CuIS; and in helping Montes later gain employment at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Montes served as an intelligence analyst at DIA from September 1985 until she was arrested for espionage by FBI agents on September 21, 2001. On March 19, 2002, Montes pleaded guilty in the District of Columbia to conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of Cuba. Montes is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence.

The indictment against Velazquez, who is also known as “Marta Rita Kviele” and as “Barbara,” was originally returned by a grand jury in the District of Columbia on February 5, 2004. It has remained under court seal until today. Velazquez has continuously remained outside the United States since 2002. She is currently living in Stockholm, Sweden. If convicted of the charges against her, Velazquez faces a potential sentence of up to life in prison.

According to the indictment, Velazquez was born in Puerto Rico in 1957. She graduated from Princeton University in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and Latin American studies. Velazquez later obtained a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1982 and a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., in 1984.

Velazquez later served as an attorney advisor at the U.S. Department of Transportation, and, in 1989, she joined the State Department’s U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as a legal officer with responsibilities encompassing Central America. During her tenure at USAID, Velazquez held a top secret security clearance and was posted to the U.S. Embassies in Nicaragua and Guatemala. In June 2002, Velazquez resigned from USAID following press reports that Montes had pleaded guilty to espionage and was cooperating with the U.S. government. Velazquez has remained outside the United States since 2002.

The indictment alleges that, beginning in or about 1983, Velazquez conspired with others to transmit to the Cuban government and its agents documents and information relating to the U.S. national defense, with the intent that they would be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of the Cuban government.

As part of the conspiracy, Velazquez allegedly helped the CuIS spot, assess, and recruit U.S. citizens who occupied sensitive national security positions or had the potential of occupying such positions in the future to serve as Cuban agents. For example, the indictment alleges that, while Velazquez was a student with Montes at SAIS in Washington, D.C., in the early 1980s, Velazquez fostered a strong, personal friendship with Montes, with both sharing similar views of U.S. policies in Nicaragua at the time.

In December 1984, the indictment alleges, Velazquez introduced Montes in New York City to a Cuban intelligence officer who identified himself as an official of the Cuban Mission to the United States. The intelligence officer then recruited Montes. In 1985, after Montes’ recruitment, Velazquez personally accompanied Montes on a clandestine trip to Cuba for Montes to receive spy craft training from CuIS.

Later in 1985, Velazquez allegedly helped Montes obtain employment as an intelligence analyst at the DIA, where Montes had access to classified national defense information and served as an agent of the CuIS until her arrest in 2001. During her tenure at the DIA, Montes disclosed the identities of U.S. intelligence officers and provided other classified national defense information to the CuIS.

During this timeframe, Velazquez allegedly continued to serve the CuIS, receiving instructions from the CuIS through encrypted, high-frequency broadcasts from her handlers and through meetings with handlers outside the United States. Source

Unrepentant Castro spy Ana Montes an Enigma despite her Historic Treason to America & Family

Unrepentant Castro spy & acolyte Ana Belen Montes did untold damage to America betraying her country and disgracing her family but she remains an enigma to most Americans. 12 Years after her arrest many more details have emerged of her largely unknown but historic case.

Via The Washington Post

"Ana Montes has been locked up for a decade with some of the most frightening women in America. Once a highly decorated U.S. intelligence analyst with a two-bedroom co-op in Cleveland Park, Montes today lives in a two-bunk cell in the highest-security women’s prison in the nation. Her neighbors have included a former homemaker who strangled a pregnant woman to get her baby, a longtime nurse who killed four patients with massive injections of adrenaline, and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, the Charles Manson groupie who tried to assassinate President Ford.

 

But hard time in the Lizzie Borden ward of a Texas prison hasn’t softened the former Defense Department wunderkind. Years after she was caught spying for Cuba, Montes remains defiant. “Prison is one of the last places I would have ever chosen to be in, but some things in life are worth going to prison for,” Montes writes in a 14-page handwritten letter to a relative. “Or worth doing and then killing yourself before you have to spend too much time in prison.”

Like Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen before her, Ana Montes blindsided the intelligence community with brazen acts of treason. By day, she was a buttoned-down GS-14 in a Defense Intelligence Agency cubicle. By night, she was on the clock for Fidel Castro, listening to coded messages over shortwave radio, passing encrypted files to handlers in crowded restaurants and slipping undetected into Cuba wearing a wig and clutching a phony passport.

Montes spied for 17 years, patiently, methodically. She passed along so many secrets about her colleagues — and the advanced eavesdropping platforms that American spooks had covertly installed in Cuba — that intelligence experts consider her among the most harmful spies in recent memory. But Montes, now 56, did not deceive just her nation and her colleagues.

She also betrayed her brother Tito, an FBI special agent; her former boyfriend Roger Corneretto, an intelligence officer for the Pentagon specializing in Cuba; and her sister, Lucy, a 28-year veteran of the FBI who has won awards for helping to unmask Cuban spies". More

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Venezuela on the brink of anarchy as allegations of massive electoral fraud Infraganti compels Capriles to call for popular protests & demand a vote by vote recount.
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Pitbull's Open Letter to Jay Z: For Cuba It's The Freedom That We Rap For

"On Cuba It's the freedom that we rap for, It's the freedom that we die for"

Rap superstar Pitbull takes Jay Z to school on Cuban history with this musical response to his Ill chosen visit to Castro's Cuba.

Eye On Cuba Late Nite Jay Z & Beyonces Cuba Trip Only Highlights Ongoing Castro Regime Atrocities

 

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How Beyonce & Jay Z's vacation In Cuba displays their utter Ignorance & Indolence about real Cuban affairs.

The Afro American musical super couple's visit to Castro's apartheid Island Is just another example of the useful Idiocy manipulated by the notoriously racist regime.

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Ignorant & Insulting Jay Z & Beyonce Blasted for Cuba Vacation

Momonation In full effect as  megastar musicians Jay Z & wife Beyoncés trip to Cuba provides a fresh hit of useful Idiocy for the Machiavellian and racist Castro regime to manipulate.

"Jay-Z and Beyonce are clueless about the tortures happening in Cuba, and it's insulting they chose to visit the communist country for a celebration ... so says a Cuban rights lobbyist. Via TMZ

Mauricio Claver-Carone, the D.C. director for the US-Cuba Democracy PAC -- a group committed to fighting for democracy in Cuba -- tells TMZ the A-listers should've educated themselves about what's really going on there before taking photo ops.

Jay and Bey were photographed Thursday in Havana -- reportedly to celebrate their 5th wedding anniversary -- but have since come under fire from some Cuban-American groups.

US citizens are still technically banned from traveling to the island purely for tourism ... and are supposed to obtain a travel license from the US government.

Mauricio says he's disappointed the superstars chose to vacay in Cuba because, "There are women getting beaten on a daily basis, women who are being jailed for no reason ... people are fighting for their freedom. It’s extremely insensitive."

We reached out to Beyonce and Jay-Z for comment. So far ... nada back.

Watch the propaganda video of their arrival complete with screaming Castro turbas (mobs) and onerous secret police presence. They will escorted and handled like this throughout their stay no doubt their every move and word recorded.

How Cuban Women Are Destroying The Castro Cosa Nostra

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Yoani In Miami Produces a Joyous Welcome

Yoani Sanchez at La Ermita de La Caridad In Miami

La Piccola Cubanita blogger arrives In Miami to a joyous welcome marveling at the true Cuban culture and customs preserved here by its displaced and disparaged people.
Via The Miami Herald

Cuban dissident journalist and blogger Yoani Sánchez received an ebullient welcome in her first public appearances Monday in Miami, as she called exiles and citizens of the Communist-ruled island a single people and urged them to overcome divisions imposed by a dictatorial regime to secure a future for their homeland.

In a long day that began with a wide-ranging discussion with journalists at The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald and culminated in an evening talk at Florida International University on how information technology is accelerating change in Cuba, Sánchez charmed, courted and at times challenged audiences of mostly exiles and Cuban-Americans in the blunt, eloquent style that has made her an Internet and old-media darling.

While taking frequent jabs at Cuba’s repressive Communist government, Sánchez touched on subjects as disparate as the role of Twitter and independent journalism in Cuba, the inadequacy of the regime’s modest reforms, her fears about her planned return to the island, her family life and her impressions of Miami, which she is visiting for the first time. She also unapologetically stood by her support for ending the U.S. trade embargo of Cuba and for closing the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, which has prompted leery if largely respectful criticism from some exiles.
     
It was a first encounter for both the journalist and an audience that had known Sánchez only through her Generación Y blog, which is translated into 20 languages; her unvarnished Tweets on daily life in Cuba, and her campaigning for freedom of expression and human rights on the island.

What she’s seen in a few days in Miami, she said, has only affirmed her conviction that the Cuban government is propped up by lies. Instead of the underdeveloped cultural wasteland Cubans are taught to expect, she found Miami to be a vast, vibrant metropolis with a Cuban community that has managed to keep alive traditions and a way of life that have vanished on the island, Sánchez said.
And she marveled at how much at home she felt in the city.

“It’s fascinating to see the Cubans here being so Cuban,’’ she said in an interview. “You see them walking down the street and just the way they move, the way they gesture, the way they speak, how colorfully they dress — it makes me feel like I’m walking down a street in Havana. The familiarity is exactly the same.’’ More

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/31/v-fullstory/3316874/cuban-blogger-yoani-sanchez-to.html#storylink=cpy

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Lifting Travel Ban May Been the Castro Regime's Biggest Mistake

"Whatever benefit the Castro dictatorship thought it might enjoy when it allowed dissidents like Yoani Sanchez and Rosa Maria Paya to travel overseas remains a mystery -- especially considering the positive response they have received and the yet-to-be tested willingness of the regime to let them back into Cuba.  Via Marc Mas Ferrer of Uncommon Sense

But it is hard to imagine that the dictatorship worked into its calculations the powerful message that the world travelers, especially Paya, have delivered to new audiences. They are more well known than ever before.

In Paya's case, in a few short weeks she has won international support for her call for an independent investigation of the deaths of her father Oswaldo Paya, head of the Christian Liberation Movement, and another activist, Harold Cepero, in a car crash last year in Cuba.

Only 24 years old, she already has proven herself a new leader in the struggle for Cuban freedom.
The latest to endorse her campaign was a bipartisan group of U.S. senators.

“Oswaldo Payá was a brave man trying to peacefully advocate for greater political freedom for his fellow Cuban brothers and sisters,” the senators said in a letter to the the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States. “It increasingly looks like he paid for that effort with his life. His memory and his family deserve an honest and independent accounting of what happened. We urge the Commission to undertake this investigation without delay.”

The only response the regime has had to Paya's message was a thuggish, and ultimately failed attempt to block her from addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Of course, it remains possible that the regime only let Paya and Sanchez and other dissidents leave Cuba so that it could keep them from returning, to starve the opposition of their example and their leadership.

But more likely is that the Castros never guessed that a young woman -- whether a blogger like a Sanchez or a daughter in mourning like Paya -- could expose the ugly truth about the regime, and that the world would believe them".