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The bag that Google carried to Cuba
By Iroel Sánchez -
Source: Blog "La pupila insomne"
Jared Cohen, who served as a advisor to both Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton when they were Secretary of state and has devoted his time and influence to Cuba. On March 21, 2012 he presided over a Google Ideas event at the Washington, D.C.-based ultraconservative Heritage Foundation, titled Cuba Needs a (Technological) Revolution: How the Internet Can Thaw an Island Frozen in Time, in which all speeches were delivered by well-known enemies of the Cuban Revolution such as Florida senator Marco Rubio, former Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega, Radio and TV Martí director Carlos García Pérez, Cuba Study Group co-director Carlos Saladrigas, George W. Bush Institute executive director James Glassman, and U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC director Mauricio Claver-Carone.
In an article titled Google and the NSA: Who’s holding the shit-bag now?, Assange wrote the following about Jared Cohen: “It has been revealed, thanks to Edward Snowden, that Google and other U.S. tech companies received millions of dollars from the NSA for their compliance with the PRISM mass surveillance system:
Documents published last year by Wikileaks obtained from the US intelligence contractor Stratfor, show that in 2011 Jared Cohen, then (as he is now) Director of Google Ideas, was off running secret missions to the edge of Iran in Azerbaijan. In those internal emails, Fred Burton, Stratfor’s Vice President for Intelligence and a former senior State Department official, described Google as follows:
Google is getting WH [White House] and State Dept support and air cover. In reality they are doing things the CIA cannot do… [Cohen] is going to get himself kidnapped or killed. Might be the best thing to happen to expose Google’s covert role in fomenting uprisings, to be blunt. The US Gov’t can then disavow knowledge and Google is left holding the shit-bag”
In a further internal communication, Burton subsequently clarified his sources on Cohen’s activities as Marty Lev, Google’s director of security and safety and… Eric Schmidt.
Wikileaks cables also revealed that previously Cohen, when working for the State Department, was in Afghanistan trying to convince the four major Afghan mobile phone companies to move their antennas onto US military bases. In Lebanon, he covertly worked to establish, on behalf of the State Department, an anti-Hezbollah Shia think tank. And in London? He was offering Bollywood film executives funds to insert anti-extremist content into Bollywood films and promising to connect them to related networks in Hollywood. That is the Director of Google Ideas. Cohen is effectively Google’s director of regime change. He is the State Department channeling Silicon Valley.”
While in Cuba, and in keeping with the above description, Cohen and two members of his group visited the collaborator of a U.S. Embassy most frequently mentioned in the secret cables revealed by Wikileaks: Yoani Sánchez.
The visitors also refrained from speaking to journalists, Cuban or foreign, in a decision apparently intended to save the scoop for Ms. Sánchez, for as soon as Cohen was back in the States he re-tweeted information about the Google group’s trip to Cuba, published in the “newspaper” that Yoani runs by order of the U.S. government.
Nor have the media mentioned that Eric Schmidt chairs the New America Foundation, the main beneficiary of the funds that USAID allocates to “pro-democracy” programs in Cuba and the mastermind of the project Commotion, described by the New York Times as designed for our country. In September 2013, the New America Foundation received $ 4.3 million from USAID to develop projects in Cuba for the next three years.
Could Google be doing what the CIA can’t, as Fred Burton says? So it seems, because Cohen was obviously “running secret missions” here, his hands busy with the uncomfortable bag containing somewhere the promotion of characters paid and organized by the U.S. with a view toward “regime change” in Cuba.
Regardless, I think this was a positive visit. Barring explicit statements in favor of changing the U.S. Cuba policy which Schmidt has endorsed in a Google+ post, the American executives –who, according to a Miami-based publication, visited the University of Information Sciences and INFOMED– were surely able to witness the technical and professional level of our specialists despite the limitations that both their company and their government impose on Cuba and contrast them with the ordinariness of those friends on whom the U.S. spends its money.
A CubaNews translation.
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