Thread by @JMichaelWaller

Any connection with a larger strategy to undermine the United States? Venezuelan defector reports that the Cuban-backed regime gave $10 million to start BLM in 2013. amgreatness.com/2020/09/12/the…

2) This amazing piece by former CIA man @GaryBerntsen describes how Venezuela & Cuba's DGI intelligence ran a self-funding political warfare campaign to weaken the US internally by flooding it with cocaine, and in turn funding the regimes. (This has long been a Cuban govt goal.)

3) "The defector noted dryly that Chavez and his Cuban advisors understood fully that he was poisoning inner-city black youth with 26 tons of cocaine monthly, while simultaneously funding BLM to encourage young blacks to organize against the American political establishment."

4) Note: Fidel Castro started work on radicalizing African-Americans more than 50 years ago, cultivating people like Angela Davis and @RepKarenBass, a finalist as Joe Biden's running mate. See tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

5) @GaryBerntsen "The defector explained that Chavez started covert funding from this account but...transitioned to funding from Venezuela’s US oil subsidiary CITGO. This all took place as the Obama Administration was working through Venezuela to reestablish relations with Cuba!"

6) After Reagan/Bush crushed Communist insurgencies, @GaryBerntsen says, Cuba & Venezuela shifted "to the political process. They infiltrated legitimate political parties throughout Latin America, and used a combination of bribery and violence to intimidate political opponents.

7) Cuba ran covert political ops inside the US the whole time," @GaryBerntsen writes: "So long as these Cuban-led covert efforts remained within political boundaries the United States would not intervene militarily."

8) Berntsen: Chavez "used that same Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs account that funded BLM to create Spain’s leftist Populist Party 'Podemos' ('We can')."

Podemos is now part of the ruling coalition of Spain, a NATO ally. Any tie with the voter machine system there?