(Frontpage Mag)—“In the mid-1970s, California Congresswoman Karen Bass…was an organizer for the Venceremos Brigade…” reads the biographical record of Bass described in Armin Rosen’s article in Tablet magazine in 2020. An event blurb in an October 1975 issue of the communist Daily World newspaper describes Bass, then 22, as “leader of the Venceremos Brigade in southern California” who, as a “brigadista” and then organizer for the Venceremos Brigades, “visited Cuba every 6 months.”
In that heady Age of Aquarius, hundreds of starry-eyed college kids were volunteering to “help build Cuban Socialism” and “fight U.S. Imperialism,” mostly by joyfully cutting Cuban sugar cane and raptly imbibing communist propaganda lectures — while seated in front of large pics of Che Guevara and “Uncle” Ho Chi Minh.
In fact, the terrorist offshoot from the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) known as The Weathermen — and staffed most famously by Barack Obama’s future “neighbors” Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn — served as the U.S. recruitment officers of the DGI (the secret intelligence agency of Cuba) at the time, which proved easy. Castro’s DGI and their KGB masters had other goals in mind, as we’ll see in a minute.
That Karen Bass was a very enthusiastic and active Venceremos Brigadista, we’ve already established. But was there more to these Venceremos Brigades? Perhaps a declassified FBI report (from well before the Bureau was run by people by Comey and Wray) might help:
The ultimate objective of the DGI in setting up the Venceremos Brigades ‘is the recruitment of individuals who are politically oriented and who someday may obtain a position, elective or appointive, somewhere in the U.S. Government, which would provide the Cuban Government with access to political, economic and military intelligence.
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