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‘INDEPENDENT’ LIBRARIES
Support
for agent Kent from the
country of Dracula
BY
JEAN GUY ALLARD —Special for Granma International—
CIA collaborator Robert Kent, inventor of the
miniscule Friends of Cuban Libraries group dedicated
to spreading disinformation on Cuba to library
organizations, has been assigned a new assistant.
Pursuing the plan to join forces with East Europeans
in order to attack Cuban socialism, the obsessive
New Yorker has carried out his latest operation
against the American Library Association in
cooperation with a U.S. poet of Romanian origin,
Andrei Codrescu.
This individual is the third pseudo-European
recruited by Kent in line with his plan to create a
parallel between Eastern Europe and Cuba at all
costs, a maneuver that doubtless corresponds to the
strategy of the anti-Cuba think tank located in the
CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
Codrescu abandoned his country in 1965 at the age
of 19.
Codrescu turned up in the United States in 1966,
where he began his immersion in New York by hanging
around Allen Ginsberg and his troupe then in fashion
in the East Village. It was then that he first used
a fictitious name to publish poems that were
regarded as mediocre. He signed them as Maria
Pardfenie and he continued using women’s names until
his recent transformation. In fact it was not his
literary prose that made this Romanian known in the
United States, but a National Public Radio (NPR)
program titled "All Things Considered," in which he
became somewhat famous. Andrei Codrescu always used
his status as an "immigrant from a communist
country" to secure an audience in a country where
McCarthyism apparently has indestructible roots. He
obtained his U.S. citizenship in 1981.
Without any doubt it was his virulent anti-communist
stance that afforded him opportunities such as his
current position as a professor at the University of
New Orleans despite that fact that he never
graduated from an institution at this level. It also
explains his presence at the side of a character
like Robert Kent, itinerant agent of the "Friends of
Cuban Libraries".
Two very particular missions have illustrated
Codrescu’s political development. December 1989, the
poet-commentator was assigned the task of observing
the changes occurring in Romania from within. The
book that resulted from this peregrination, The
Hole in the Flag, received a barrage of
criticism, especially for the many chronological and
geographical errors it contained.
In 1998, he repeated this offense after a visit
to Havana with Ay, Cuba: a Socio-Erotic Journey,
a repugnant work that highlights his fascination
with adolescents. Codrescu, who doesn’t speak three
words of Spanish, visited the island for two days in
order to write a text full of disdain and, once
again, full of nonsense.
MILLIONS TO THE DIRTY WAR
The United States spends hundreds of millions of
tax dollars per annum to attack Cuba. The
administration that abandoned the predominantly
African-American community of New Orleans is the
same one that maintains an expensive propagandistic
apparatus based in Southern Florida to damage the
island’s image. For carrying out these campaigns,
Kent is trying to harness the mysterious "support"
of Eastern Europe. At the last World Congress of
Librarians in Oslo, it was revealed that the "Czech
connection" which Kent tried to utilize was put
together by a U.S. military intelligence official of
Czech origin. "Stanley" or "Stan" Kalkus emigrated
from Czechoslovakia to Austria in 1948 and later to
the United States in 1951, where he settled in
Chicago. According to communications with his
friends, a mere 12 months after his arrival in the
United States he was recruited by its military
intelligence. Kalkus then joined the U.S. armed
forces and spent many years "working" for the
intelligence branch in various parts of the world.
The "Czech librarian" Stanislav "Stan" Kalkus
still lives – at least six months of the year – at
his real residence in Newport, Rhode Island.
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