Frank Hernandez Trujillo

Born in Havana in 1942. In 1960 Hernandez emigrated from Cuba after claiming asylum in a Latin American embassy. Between October 1962 and April 1963, he was an active member of the Special Cuban Units, of the U.S. Army, and later went to the reserves with the National Service Medal.

He is president of the Board of Directors of the so-called Support Group to the Dissidence (GAD) a counterrevolutionary organization based in Miami that carries out illegal activities against Cuba and receives financial support from USAID to fund counterrevolutionary groups on the island.

GAD was officially registered in March 1995, in Florida as a "non-lucrative" corporation, created with the purpose to offer "logistical support to opposition members within Cuba.”

In 1998, during the visit of Pope Juan Pablo II to Cuba, Hernandez sent associates to our country with instructions to make banners and signs with slogans aimed at provoking incidents during a mass celebrated in Santiago of Cuba.

Hernandez has been one of most active ringleaders of the so-called Institute for Democracy in Cuba (IDC), a group formed of ten anti-Cuban organizations that to date have received one million dollars from USAID to fund subversive projects against Cuba.

Hernandez Trujillo is also president of the Conservative Cuban Party. The word in Miami is that he worked for several years with the CIA and maintains relations with that agency.

He has maintained regular contact with internal dissident groups and has sent collaborators to Cuba to meet with ringleaders and give them instructions, money, communications equipment and computers.