GRANMA INTERNATIONAL
Havana. April 25, 2008
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/abril/vier25/kolar.htmlAgent Kolar, Bush’s new hope for destabilizing Cuba
BY JEAN-GUY ALLARD —Granma International staff writer—
• CAUGHT up in a series of scandals that erased what little credibility it
had on the Cuba issue, the Bush administration, which until now trusted that
its Cuban-American mercenaries would succeed in destabilizing the country,
has placed its hopes in the none-too-clean hands of an astute Czech, a
fitting student of its spy services.
Selected and recruited by the CIA in the late 1980s, Petr "Peter" Kolar,
ambassador of the Czech Republic in Washington, moved in less than three
years from a building maintenance employee and mail clerk to chief
researcher at the Institute of Strategic Studies attached to the Ministry of
Defense in Prague.
This was thanks to a little push forward by his friend Vaclav Havel, also
connected to the U.S. intelligence pipelines.
Kolar began his dizzying ascent after the collapse of the socialist state in
the former Czechoslovakia, when his masters sent him, overnight, to
Washington to begin a training program for his new tasks, according to his
official biography. This training program was at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center (WWIC), an institution funded and run by the U.S.
government.
What his biography doesn’t say is that the WWIC, attached to the University
of Princeton, is as closely tied to the CIA as white on rice. So much so, in
fact, that the notorious former CIA director, Allen W. Dulles, bequeathed
his personal archives to that institute.
James Billington, director of the WWIC from 1973 to 1988, began his career
as Dulles’ assistant and ended as advisor to Ronald Reagan. According
Dulles’ declassified documents, a large number of professors from that
center also worked as "high level" advisors for U.S. spy agencies.
Lee Hamilton, its current director, has an even darker résumé. A former
congressman from the state of Indiana, he was a member of the presidential
advisory council for domestic security, secretary of the National Security
Study Group for the Department of Defense and… secretary of the CIA advisory
council on economic intelligence. Even more serious: he was on the National
Commission on Terrorist Attacks, also known as the 9/11 Commission.
What could agent Kolar have studied in Washington, then?
What is certain is that back in Prague, the Havel connection sent him
quickly on the way to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he would rise
from one intrigue to the next at rocket speed until becoming a deputy
minister.
Now Washington could reap what it had sowed.
ARRIVES WITH MAFIA FIASCO
On December 2, 2005, Doctor Kolar (he was by now called doctor), presented
his credentials to George W. Bush. He knew what the priorities were. He
waited until after the New Year’s holiday, and on January 17, 2006, he was
in Miami, where he met with some of the most recalcitrant mafia elements.
By May, he was ready to come out as the star of the anti-Cuban show.
In a rather crude move, the conspirators chose the offices of the Center for
a Free Cuba, of the notorious CIA agent Frank Calzón, to call a press
conference. Kolar had invited a number of diplomats from other former
Eastern European socialist countries, in order to launch what he called "an
initiative to support the internal opposition in Cuba."
Those accompanying him included Congressman Lincoln Díaz-Balart, son of a
government minister under the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship; Caleb McCarry,
head of the Bush Plan to annex Cuba; Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat, a terrorist
recruited from the Cuban Democratic Directorate; the heavily-subsidized
Sylvia Iriondo, of MAR por Cuba; Angel de Fana, of the group Plantados hasta
la Libertad y la Democracia, a counterrevolutionary organization of
ex-convicts; and Mauricio Claver Carone, director of the U.S.-Cuba Democracy
Political Action Committee, which is dedicated to bribing congress members.
Kolar did not suspect at that moment that before the year was over his troop
of conspirators would be dispersed by a hurricane: a report in December from
the Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealing that USAID officials
assigned to Cuba concealed the final destination of $65.4 million in grants
from this federal agency that went to their friends in Miami and Washington.
The suspects indicated by the GAO report included two of Kolar’s best
supporters: Frank Calzón and Orlando Gutierrez-Boronat, who received
millions in subsidies.
The blow was too heavy. Days later, Adolfo Franco, administrator of Latin
American funds for the US Agency for International Development, immediately
resigned his post… and joined the team of Republican presidential candidate
John McCain, who just so happens to be a director of the International
Republican Institute (IRI), one of the great beneficiaries of Franco’s
generosity.
The scandal in USAID continued over the following months, with more
resignations and a police investigation that recently "blew up" Felipe
Sixto, Calzón’s right-hand man, and the mastermind of a profitable
embezzlement scheme, who has been hiding for a few months as "special"
advisor to the president.
Another activity organized by Kolar’s "advisors" a short while ago at the
Coral Gables Biltmore Hotel brought to light the new plan for creating
subversion in Cuba as imagined by the masterminds in Langley.
Acknowledging Washington’s isolation in its dirty war against the island,
Cuban-American Senator Mel Martinez, who was heading up the unusual meeting,
emphasized a need for involving "other countries" in their anti-Cuba
operation. This was meant to remind Cubans who "have been trained to hate"
the U.S. government that the latter "is not their only ally." José Cárdenas,
the "interim" director replacing Franco at USAID, said that USAID would soon
begin "following the model established by the Eastern European bloc in the
1990s," thus confirming it as the first to benefit.
The mafioso meeting ended with an eloquent piece of nonsense from U.S.
Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutiérrez. According to this former
multi-million dollar corporate executive, attention must be given to Cuba
"as it has been with Tibet and Darfur," thus admitting U.S. intervention in
both of those crises.
Meanwhile, the Czech ambassador was sanctioning such absurd instructions,
his perspicacious associate Calzón did not waste any time on a useless show.
He was waiting at the fittingly-named Dulles Airport in Washington for the
next flight to Prague.
He knew that from now on, the Cárdenas substitute would favor the Czech
capital for distributing the millions from USAID.
Behind Calzón would follow all of his fellow mercenaries, looking to secure
new sources of funding, beginning with Robert Ménard, in a line that also
featured Boronat and Iriondo.
Vaclav Havel, for his part, has just inaugurated another organization for
"advocating democracy," on April 16 in Brussels, and behind it is the hairy
hand of the godfathers of subversion in Cuba… suffice it to say that the
coordinator for the "new" program is Czech Kristina Prunerova, of People in
Need, a group created in Prague by the CIA and heavily subsidized by the
National Endowment for Democracy, another agency attached to U.S.
intelligence.
In Miami, various factions that have been feeding for decades from the
federal government’s anti-Cuba crusades are now reeling in face of the Kolar
Plan, wondering how to link up with that subversive structure that benefits
European NGOs and satellites of USAID, NED and other channels.
The GAO audit on USAID’s anti-Cuba activities made headlines with the fancy
purchases by the hired "democracy activists" from Miami: cashmere sweaters,
Godiva chocolates, Nintendo games and Sony Playstations, supposedly all
meant for alleged dissidents.
This is the rotten fruit of the lucubration of Cuban-American congress
members Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Lincoln and Mario Díaz-Balart, Senator
Martínez and the ringleaders of the Cuban Liberty Council. Will the USAID’s
millions continue to be reaped in Miami? •
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