Communications: U.S. Government Continues with Even More Acts of Aggression against Cuba

Published in Argenpress
(Argentina) on 24 March 2011
by Jean-Guy Allard (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Arie Braizblot. Edited by Gillian Palmer  .
The Department of State and its agency of destabilization, USAID, estimate to spend some $30 million more for its interventionist operations meant to convert the Internet into an instrument of penetration and intelligence in Cuban national territory.

The website Cuba Money Project confirms this through American journalist and investigator Tracey Eaton by publishing a document dated Jan. 11 — recently identified to the American special services — that reveals how requests are made for “ideas” from NGOs and specialized businesses interested in developing projects related to the use of the Internet “in Cuba and other nations.” The document was published on the eve of the trial in Havana of American Alan Philip Gross, a contractor for USAID, later sentenced for his criminal activities. Feb. 7 was the deadline for the presentation of programs.

“The State Department has not named — and likely will not announce — the organizations that will carry out the projects,” writes Eaton, an ex-correspondent for Diario Tejano in Cuba.

Grants from $500,000 to $8 million are available for these projects, with a total that could reach $30 million, the study specifies. Furthermore, the money comes from the 2010 federal budget, not from this year’s.

The Department of State, with a precision that seems to refer directly to the case of Gross or to previous intelligence operations, explains that the chosen organizations must possess work experience in “acutely hostile Internet environments.”

The spearheading of these so-called “web-based circumvention-technology” operations is specifically intended to avoid and deceive the usual detection systems (“firewalls and filters”) used to detect the multiple forms of illicit use of the Internet, according to each country’s laws. The strategy includes a “training program” that involves the development of a “network of digital safety instructors” that carries out operations with “organizations [that] are under threat,” read: operations that operate in an illegal way.

The organizations and businesses invited to submit proposals should be able to “train,” said the request for bids, “activists, bloggers, citizen-journalists, and civil society organizations” and promote the use of new technologies of person-to-person communication and “social networks.” The program even foresees a fund for the defense of activists with legal problems in cases involving “hacking” and “cyber intrusion.”*

In addition to Cuba, the solicitation of proposals makes references to China, Burma, Iran, Russia and Venezuela, all countries that refuse to subject themselves to the imperial dominion of the U.S., always with the usual rhetoric of “helping digital activities,” the known strategy of recruitment of agents and informants developed for the intelligence apparatus of the U.S.

This document integrally corresponds to what was expressed recently in a magazine by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Tracey Eaton mentions in his revealing investigation.

*Editor’s Note: According to cubamoneyproject.org, funding would “cover costs associated with living expenses or legal fees, in addition to a rapid-response fund to provide short-term funding for civil society organizations that have been targeted by severe hacking or cyber intrusion incidents (such as Distributed Denial of Service attacks) to keep their online operations up and running.”




Comunicaciones: el gobierno de EEUU sigue con aún más agresiones contra Cuba
Autor: Jean-Guy Allard
06:20 pm
24 Mar 2011
El Departamento de Estado y su agencia de desestabilización USAID proyectan gastar unos 30 millones más para sus operaciones injerencistas orientadas a convertir a Internet en instrumento de penetración e inteligencia en territorio nacional cubano.
Lo confirma el sitio web Cuba Money Project del periodista e investigador norteamericano Tracey Eaton al publicar un documento fechado del 11 de enero último de esta agencia identificada a los servicios especiales norteamericanos que revela como se solicita “ideas” de ONGs y empresas especializadas, interesadas en desarrollar proyectos relacionados al uso de Internet “en Cuba y otras naciones”.
El documento fue publicado en víspera del juicio en La Habana del norteamericano Alan Philip Gross, contratista de la USAID, luego condenado por sus actividades ilegales.
El 7 de febrero era la fecha tope para la presentación de programas.
“El Departamento de Estado no ha precisado – y sin dudas no lo hará – cuales serán las organizaciones que realizarán estos proyectos”, escribe Eaton, un ex corresponsal de diario tejano en La Habana,
Subsidios de medio millón de dólares hasta 8 millones son disponibles para estos proyectos con un total que pudiera alcanzar los 30 millones, especifica el estudio.
Más aún, el dinero proviene del presupuesto federal de 2010 y no del siguiente.
El Departamento de Estado, en una precisión que parece referirse directamente al caso Gross o a operaciones anteriores de inteligencia, detalla que las organizaciones elijables tienen que “poseer experiencia de trabajo en ámbitos Internet agudamente hostiles”.
La punta de lanza de estas operaciones llamada “web-based circumvention technology” es especificamente destinada a evitar e engañar los habituales sistemas de detección (“firewalls” y filtros) usados para detectar las multiples formas de uso ilicito de la red de redes, según las legislaciones de cada país.
La estrategia incluye un “programa de entrenamiento” que comporta el desarrollo de una “red de instructores” que realizarán operaciones con “organizaciones bajo amenazas”, leer: organizaciones que operan de manera ilegal.
Las organizaciones y empresas invitadas a someter propuestas deben poder “entrenar”, precisa la solicitud de ofertas, a “blogueros, ciudadanos-periodistas y organizaciones de la sociedad civil” y promocionar el uso de las nuevas tecnologías de comunicaciones de persona a persona y de “redes sociales”.
El programa preve hasta un fondo de “defensa” de activistas con problemas legales en casos de “hacking” y de “cyber intrusión”.
Además de Cuba, la solicitud de propuesta hace referencias a China, Birmania, Iran, Rusia y Venezuela, todos paises que se niegan a someterse al dominio imperial de EEUU, siempre con la habitual retorica de la “ayuda” a “activistas digitales”, la conocida estrategia de reclutamiento de agentes e informantes desarrollada por el aparato inteligencia de EEUU.
Este documento corresponde integralmente a lo que expresó recientemente en una revista especializada, la propia Secretaria de Estado Hillary Clinton, comenta Tracey Eaton en su reveladora investigación.


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