Center for a Free Cuba

The Center for a Free Cuba was created in the United States in October 1997 as an “independent and non profit making organization to promote the so called “human rights," and a “transition to democracy” in Cuba. This profile allows it to receive donations from U.S. institutions.

Its real objective is to promote subversion against Cuba by means of providing funds and resources to the ringleaders of the smallish internal groups using the ‘humanitarian’ programs; looking for and disseminating information of the so-called “internal opposition” towards the mass media, non-governmental organizations and the international community with the purpose of feeding the anti-Cuban propaganda campaigns.

Its director is counterrevolutionary Frank Calzon, a CIA agent who has played an active role in the implementation of subversive actions against Cuba. The leadership was, in 2001: Manuel J. Cutillas, Modesto Maidique, Otto J. Reich, Everette Briggs, Nestor Carbonell, William Doherty, Nicolas Estrella, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Richard O´Conell, Susan Kufman Purcell, Carlos Saladrigas and Filiberto Agusti.

Ever since it was founded, this group has received substantial funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Its aim is to implement projects to spread propaganda in Cuba against the political and economic system, promote a supposed political transition and a capitalist type economy, and prop up the international community so that it will play a more effective role in the promotion of internal subversion.

The project contemplates funding trips to Cuba by people that are presumably specialized in the above-mentioned topics, the support of the U.S. maneuvers to achieve the passing of anti-Cuban resolutions during the United Nations Human Rights Commission’s annual meetings, and also includes the participation in other conferences and international conventions looking at tarnishing the international of image of Cuba.