PUBLICADO PARA HOY 6 DE MARZO
BY: CAPITOL HILL CUBANS
- An excerpt from Tracey Eaton's Along the Malecon:
William Miller, the Jewish computer tech who admitted meeting with Alan Gross, helped set up a computer laboratory in Santiago de Cuba in December 2009 with the help of ORT, an international charity organization.
Miller's computer skills and contacts in the Jewish community would make him a valuable contact for Alan Gross, now on trial in Cuba for importing illegal satellite communication gear. Miller is the grandson of Jose Miller, who headed the Patronato, the largest synagogue in Cuba, before his death in 2006.
I don't know if Gross's work in Cuba had anything to do with the Santiago de Cuba computer lab. Moving a bunch of old computers to Santiago sure doesn't seem like subversive activity. I haven't seen any evidence that Gross had contact with Cuban dissidents or opposition figures, so where's the threat to the Cuban state?
ORT's website said the computer laboratory in Santiago would be used for IT training and English-language education. The computers were to be available to: 60 Jews in Santiago, 80 in Guantanamo province and 32 in Granma province.
- As for Adel Dworin, leader of Havana's Jewish community, who "suddenly" denied knowing Alan Gross last year:
Dworin added that it's possible she met Gross, but she didn't remember him.
"From October to May, we get hundreds and hundreds of Jewish religious visitors," she said.
A Cuban source who spoke on condition of anonymity questioned Dworin's version of events today and said Dworin knew Gross.
"Adela Dworin herself knew Gross. Perfectly," the source said.
- Welcome to Castro's Cuba, where anyone can become a victim anytime -- at the regime's whim.
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