Freedom House

A “non”-governmental organization funded in 1941, in Washington DC, with the purpose of strengthening the “free” institutions in the U.S. and other countries.

In 1995, plans to establish a “free Cuba,” were drawn up with the creation of the Free Cuba Program, aimed at fostering what they called a democratic civil society, thus encouraging the International Community to support the idea of a “peaceful solution” on the Island.

With the fall of the socialist camp in the USSR and Eastern Europe and conjecturing an imminent fall of the Cuban political system, Freedom House intensified several programs aimed at destabilizing Cuba and stirring up the counterrevolutionary leaders.

Until 1997, Frank Calzon—born in Cuba and trained under U.S. ideology—was officially director of the Cuban programs within Freedom House.

Calzon brought to this job a curriculum that included experience working for the CIA during his days as a student at Georgetown University.

Funding

In October, 1995 the then U.S. president Bill Clinton publicly announced half a million dollars funding by USAID to the Freedom House for so-called Transition Projects.

In 1999 USAID, gave Freedom House a further 275,000 dollars for the so called Cuban Democracy Project, and in the year 2000 doubled that budget with a budget of 550,000 dollars with the objective of giving priority to the following objectives:

• To find and sent politicians, journalists and activists from Eastern Europe experienced in “democratic” transitions.

• To promote contact between leaders of smaller groups that wanted to create “non governmental organizations” in Cuba with so-called experts in Eastern Europe.

• To publish and distribute in Cuba booklets about the “democratic transition” written by European authors.

Freedom House is only one of the NGO’s that the Government of the United States of America has used in its attempts to topple the Cuban Revolution.

In 1996 USAID assigned seven million dollars in its anti-Cuban projects. Nowadays that figure is reaching 13 million U.S. dollars.