… territory. It was a revolution against Western civilization itself — waged, in part, via the novel and insidious method of persuading the children of the West to turn against their own inheritance.
For nearly seven decades, the Cuban regime has waged a sustained campaign of subversion
against the United States. It is a campaign that has infiltrated the highest reaches of the U.S.
government, recruited and cultivated generations of American activists, backed an unprecedented
wave of left-wing terrorism on American soil, and carried out one of the most durable and
damaging foreign intelligence penetrations in American history.
The Cuban campaign against America is unique. It is irregular and covert – even at the peak of
its military power, Havana never possessed the capacity to defeat the United States in a
conventional armed conflict. Instead, the Cubans perfected a new model for a long war of
attrition, organized around espionage, infiltration, sabotage, proxy networks, and a revolutionary
infrastructure designed to turn America against itself.
In contrast to every other aspect of Cuba’s failed state, this model has yielded remarkable
success. For over half a century, this small island nation with a chronically failing economy has
operated at the center of a vast hemispheric network. The Cubans trained and armed tens of
thousands of left-wing guerillas, oversaw violent insurgencies that plunged multiple continents
into chaos, and backed deadly extremist attacks across the United States. The island itself
became the premier safe harbor for fugitive American terrorists – fleeing justice for bombings,
armed robberies, and murders – as well as a forward operating base for a rotating cast of hostile
foreign powers. Cuban agents infiltrated the top levels of the State Department, the National
Security Council, and the Pentagon, operating undercover for decades without detection.
But the most successful and enduring sphere of Cuba’s campaign against America has taken
place on the ideological battlefront. Since the 1960s, the regime has served as the beating heart
of a new and distinct kind of Marxism, forged around an overriding resentment and fundamental
hatred of the United States and the broader West. The Cubans devoted themselves to recruiting,
cultivating and mobilizing a global coalition of activists, intellectuals, and political groups
around this cause, building a sprawling revolutionary network that shaped a disproportionate
share of America’s most famous and influential extremist movements, from the Black Panthers
and the Weather Underground through to Antifa. Today, that network continues to maintain ties
to powerful leftist nonprofits, anti-ICE collectives, socialist groups, and Marxist militant
organizations across the United States.
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