Between 1974 and 1985 the FALN (Puerto Rican Armed Forces of National

Liberation) organized 120 terrorist bombings in the United States. Many

Americans were killed in those bombings, and many more were crippled. In

1983, another Puerto Rican terrorist group known as the Macheteros,

attacked and robbed a Wells Fargo armored car in Connecticut. The

Macheteros intended to use the money to finance a terrorist campaign

against the United States. Working under the cover of Puerto Rican

nationalism and claiming to act on behalf of the "oppressed people of

Puerto Rico," the FALN and the Macheteros are nothing but Communist

revolutionaries. Both groups were organized by Fidel Castro's secret

police. The ultimate goal of the FALN and the Macheteros is the creation

of an independent Marxist-Leninist dictatorship on the island of Puerto

Rico.

While Timothy McVeigh awaits execution and has no chance of receiving

a pardon for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing, President Clinton

has seen fit to pardon 11 FALN terrorists and five Macheteros who have

been serving prison sentences in the United States. Some people are

wondering why Clinton did this. It was not a popular move. What pressing

political reason did

Clinton have for releasing 16 Communist terrorists and revolutionaries

from jail?

If we look back to the Vietnam War, we find that Clinton gave active

support to the Viet Cong -- who were also terrorists. Clinton also gave

his support to the Marxist-Leninist dictatorship of Ho Chi Minh. Writing

to ROTC Director Eugene Holmes in December 1969, Clinton admitted to

working for a Communist front organization, the Vietnam Moratorium.

Clinton acknowledged,

"One of the national organizers of the Vietnam Moratorium is a close

friend of mine. After I left Arkansas last summer, I went to Washington

to work in the national headquarters of the Moratorium, then to England

to organize Americans for the demonstrations of Oct. 15 and Nov. 16."

Clinton is a smart man, and he certainly was perceptive enough to

realize who he was working for.

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The Vietnam Moratorium was first conceived at a meeting in Stockholm

in May 1969. The meeting was sponsored by the Soviet-controlled World

Peace Council through the auspices of the National Committee to End the

War in Vietnam, also known as the Student Mobilization Committee -- or

MOBE. According to a secret FBI memo issued in October 1969, "Communists

are playing dominant roles in ... the Student Mobilization Committee."

Present at the Stockholm meeting was the Viet Cong leader Nguyen Thi

Binh. Also present was a North Vietnamese Communist official, Nguyen

Minh Vy. As it happens, the work of MOBE was praised by Leonid Brezhnev

and Aleksei Kosygin.

In July 1969 MOBE was reorganized by veteran Communist Party member

Sidney Peck and a group of activists from the Institute for Policy

Studies (IPS), a Marxist think tank from which President Clinton has

made several key appointments. IPS was founded by Richard Barnet and

Marcus Raskin in 1963. Most of the money they used came from the Samuel

Rubin Foundation. According to Dr. Rael Jean Isaac, Rubin was a

Comintern member and a Communist agent.

The founders of IPS, Barnet and Raskin, dedicated themselves to

helping Communist revolutionaries. Both men hated the United States and

openly supported the Communist cause during the Vietnam War. In the mid

1980s Barnet visited Communist Nicaragua, staying at the home of Thomas

Borge, chief of Nicaragua's secret police.

Now declassified, FBI File 100-447935-119 makes special mention of

the Institute for Policy Studies, stating that "this group played an

insidious and influential role in developing strategy and tactics for

all phases of subversion, seditious activity, racial conflict and

revolutionary political agitation and violence. ..."

Should we be shocked to discover that President Clinton has appointed

outright Marxist subversives from the IPS to key government jobs? An IPS

leader and an outspoken Marxist, Derek Shearer, was appointed as one of

Clinton's top economic advisors, and was later appointed U.S. Ambassador

to

Finland. IPS leader Morton Halperin, a supporter of the notorious KGB

agent and CIA turncoat Philip Agee, is now a leading official in the

State Department. Anthony Lake, Clinton's one-time National Security

Advisor, was once an IPS instructor.

Given these appointments, President Clinton's clemency for Puerto

Rican Communist revolutionaries shouldn't surprise anyone. According to

a recent article by J. Michael Waller in Insight magazine, the White

House has been secretly pushing to get a U.S. entry visa for Castro's

terrorism chief, Fernando Garcia Bielsa. Waller explains that Bielsa, a

high ranking Cuban official, is charged with overseeing the terrorist

activities of the FALN and the Macheteros.

According to provisions of the 1996 Anti-Terrorism Act, entry into

the United States is to be denied to any person who is a representative

or member of a designated terrorist organization. Cuba has long been

classified by the U.S. State Department as a sponsor of international

terrorism. Intelligence sources also indicate that Mr. Bielsa personally

oversaw funding and support for the Macheteros. Logically, he cannot be

allowed into the United States. Nevertheless, the White House wants

Fernando Garcia Bielsa to come to Washington. Once established at the

Cuban mission in Washington, Bielsa would be in an excellent position to

direct the terrorist groups he is charged by Castro with supervising.

Given the release by Clinton of 16 members of his terrorist following

from U.S. prison, Bielsa's striking power has increased. Ominously, the

stage may soon be set for a new Communist-sponsored terrorist campaign.

It should be noted that Communist Cuba was given a very special role

by the Soviet General Staff in the event of World War III. That mission

involved Cuba's biological and chemical warfare capability. According to

intelligence sources, Cuba has two main biological and chemical

facilities --

which are ideal for supplying terrorists. One is at Jardin de Orquilles,

close to the town of Soroa; and the other is located at Kimonor, in the

province of Matanzas. Kimonor is also home to a special army school

staffed by Russian instructors. According to the Russians, if toxic

weapons were used at strategic locations along the Mississippi River, a

third of the United States could be contaminated.

Some observers have suggested that Clinton's clemency of the Puerto

Rican terrorists was timed to help Hillary Clinton win Puerto Rican

votes in New York. But that is unlikely, because Puerto Ricans are not

pro-Communist or pro-terrorist by nature. As a matter of fact, the

"oppressed people of Puerto Rico" love their commonwealth status within

the U.S. As it happens, Puerto Rican residents do not pay federal taxes.

They enjoy all the rights of American citizenship except that of voting

in national elections. The local government of Puerto Rico is, in fact,

democratically elected. In elections the Puerto Rican Independence Party

rarely draws more than four percent of the vote. The New Progressive

Party, which wants to make Puerto Rico the 51st U.S. state, draws about

48 percent and the Commonwealth Popular Democratic Party -- which favors

continued Commonwealth status -- also draws about 48 percent.

While the U.S. media was happy to describe the released terrorists as

Puerto Rican nationalists, the truth is very different. Rather than

serving the cause of the Puerto Rican people, these terrorists are

agents of a hostile foreign power. True to form, the Clinton White House

continues to give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States.