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From: pedro1940@progression.net

Castro Spies on Jack Nicholson and Pope.
By Humberto Fontova

"Fidel Castro is a genius!" gushed Jack Nicholson after a visit with the
Cuban Fuhrer in 1998. "We spoke about everything," the actor
rhapsodized."Castro is a humanist like President Clinton. Cuba is simply a
paradise!" .

Jack Nicholson has been saying such things for years now. Many of his
Hollywood cohorts follow suit. Francis Ford Coppola, Kevin Kostner, Steven
Spielberg, Woody Harrelson, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Leo DiCaprio Chevy
Chase, Robert Redford among many others have all waxed euphoric on Castro
and his island prison.

While holding up the book, Fidel Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant, on his show
recently, Bill O'Reilly  called these celebs "Hollywood pinheads."

But there might be more to these celebrity plugs for a tyrant who jailed
more of  his subjects than Hitler or Stalin than the usual celebrity vacuity
upstairs.

"My job was to bug their hotel rooms," says high-ranking Cuban intelligence
defector Delfin Fernandez. "With both cameras and listening devices. Most
people have no idea they are being watched while they are in Cuba.  But
their  personal activities are filmed under orders from Castro himself." And
according to some sources, Havana, given the desperation of it's brutalized
and impoverished residents,  has recently topped Bangkok as the world mecca
for child sex.

"He (Delfin Fernandez) has not only met some of the most famous men in the
world," says the London Daily Mirror about the Cuban defector,  "he's also
spied on them and been witness to some of their most innermost secrets."

"When the celebrity visitors arrived at the hotels Nacional, Meliá Habana
and Meliá Cohiba," says Fernandez, "we already had their rooms completely
bugged with sophisticated taping equipment, . "But not just the rooms, we'd
also follow the visitors around, sometimes we covered them 24 hours a day.
They had no idea we were tailing them."

Famous Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar was a special target for this
bugging but nothing of value came of it for Castro. "Everybody already knows
I'm a maricon!"  Almodovar  laughed at Castro's blackmailers. "So go right
ahead! Knock yourselves out!"

 "Fidel Castro is a special connoisseur of these tapings and videos."
Fernandez says. "Especially of  the really famous. And not even his closest
"friends" are safe from this bugging. The best example is his longtime
Castro "friend"  Nobel prize novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. In what
appeared as a touching act of generosity and friendship, Castro gave his
friend "Gabo"  his very own (stolen)  mansion in Havana  "We had remodeled
it right before, " remembers the Intelligence honcho, Fernandez "and we
installed more cables for bugging devices than for  the normal electrical
appliances. We taped EVERYTHING! Fidel
doesn't trust ANYONE."  He has no friends,never did ...!

Castro's top intelligence people would gather for the screenings of  these
tapes almost like Hollywood types for an upcoming movie. "Hummmm, these
scenes are more scandalous than anything in any of her movies!" Fernandez
recalls a top intelligence officer chortling while watching the nighttime
cavortings of a famous Spanish actress. "Now, it really seems to me,
companeros," the Castro intimate chortled as he looked around the room,
"that this senora should be making more respectful comments about our
regime, right?"

"But famous Americans are the priority objectives of Castro's intelligence."
says Fernandez. "When word came down that models Naomi Campbell and Kate
Moss were coming to Cuba the order was a routine one: 24 hour a day
vigilance. Then we got a PRIORITY alert, " recalls Fernandez, "because there
was a rumor that they would be sharing a room with Leonardo Di Caprio. The
rumor set off a flurry of activity and we set up the most sophisticated
devices we had."

"The American actor Jack Nicholson was another celebrity who was bugged and
taped THROUGHLY during his stay in the hotel Meliá Cohiba," states
Fernandez, the man in charge of the bugging.

Turns out, however, that at least one visiting dignitary foiled Castro's
intelligence. On his visit to Cuba in 1998, Pope John Paul's assistants
discovered and removed several bugging devices from his Holiness' hotel
room.  Perhaps Castro had a grudge against the Papacy. Most don't recall,
but in Janurary 1962 Pope John XXIII ex-communicated Fidel Castro from the
Catholic Church. It seemed fitting, considering the hundreds of Cuban men
and boys crumpling to Castro's firing squads while yelling "Long Live Christ
the King!" during their last
seconds alive.

                                                        **************

Humberto Fontova is the author of " Fidel; Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant,"
described as "absolutely devastating. An enlightening read you'll never
forget" by David Limbaugh. "A remarkable book," says Phil Brennan. "An
eye-opener. Fontova explodes myth after myth." David Horowitz says:
"Humberto Fontova has performed a valuable service to the cause of decency
and human freedom. Every American should read this book."

lavozdecubalibre.com

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