Abdala

Counterrevolutionary organization created in New York City in 1968. As part of its anti-Cuban actions, they orchestrated provocative acts against the Cuban diplomatic mission at the United Nations, and against the presence of Cuban artists in the United States.

It published a monthly propaganda (libel-style) booklet with a run of 30,000 copies, and organized a clandestine radio station that sent transmissions to Cuba during the seventies. It had groups in Washington, Miami, Chicago,Puerto Rico, New Jersey and at some U.S. universities.

Its main leaders later joined up into an anti-Cuban terrorist group by the name of Cuban National Liberation Front, (Frente de Liberacion Nacional de Cuba, FLNC).

The public links between Abdala and the FLNC proved its terrorist character, because until that moment it had presented itself as an organization of a supposed civic nature, formed by young people of Cuban origin, that were involved in counteracting the student’s progressive movement that opposed the Vietnam war and that demanded a more realistic policy towards Cuba.

Some of its leaders also joined other terrorist organizations, like the so-called Organización para la Liberacion de Cuba, (OLPC) directed by Ramon Saul Sanchez Rizo, and to the so-called Young People of the Star (Jovenes de la Estrella).

Among its most infamous ringleaders where terrorists like Orlando Gutierrez, who later became a member of the Cuban Democratic Directorate (Directorio Democratico Cubano); Leonardo Viota also known as “The Chemist” because of his abilities in the handling of explosives; Enrique Encinosa Canto; Pedro Solares; Cesar Sanchez; Jose Chorens and Gustavo Marin Duarte, its main promoter.