Cuba Playbook Targets U.S. Bases

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A new State Department report says a Cuba-linked activist network is preparing protests at U.S. military bases and immigration offices within 24 hours of any American move against the communist regime.

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A “National Rapid Response Plan” maps protests at U.S. bases, immigration sites, and federal buildings if America acts against Cuba.
The plan comes from a U.S. coalition tied to a Cuban government arm that is now under U.S. sanctions.
Federal officials say Cuba has spent decades cultivating far-left groups and even infiltrating parts of the U.S. government.
Justice and Treasury Department investigators are probing whether some nonprofits are acting as foreign influence fronts.

State Department Flags Cuba-Linked Protest Plan on U.S. Soil

The State Department report describes how the National Network on Cuba, a U.S.-based coalition of more than 60 groups, pushed a “National Rapid Response Plan” in June that tells activists to mobilize at U.S. military bases, immigration enforcement sites, and federal buildings within 24 hours of any American military action or threat against Cuba. The plan calls for “coordinated nationwide actions” meant to make any U.S. move against the regime “politically and materially costly.”

An investigation by ADN Cuba and other outlets shows the rapid response strategy is designed to coordinate travel, messaging, and street protests across the country, including at Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices, Pentagon-linked facilities, and major federal buildings. Organizers frame it as anti-war activism, but the targets they pick are the very institutions that defend the border, fight terrorism, and carry out the laws that Congress passed.

Cuban Government Ties, Sanctions, and a Web of U.S. Activist Groups

The National Network on Cuba is not operating in a vacuum. The State Department links the coalition to the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, or ICAP, a Cuban state body that Washington just sanctioned for backing Cuban intelligence operations against the United States. ICAP’s longtime leader, Fernando González Llort, is a convicted member of the Wasp spy network that infiltrated exile groups and scoped out U.S. military sites in Florida during the 1990s.

The new report names ICAP as a central hub in Cuba’s influence machine, saying it works with more than 2,000 “solidarity” groups in over 150 countries to push pro-regime narratives and build activist networks. According to coverage of the report, ICAP and its partners helped cultivate American organizations including Code Pink, the National Lawyers Guild, Communist Party USA, the Democratic Socialists of America, and the National Network on Cuba itself as channels for outreach, training, and long-term ideological work.

Money, Travel, and a Growing Federal Investigation

Financial and travel links add more smoke. The State Department report says roughly one-quarter of Code Pink’s funding since 2017 has come from entities tied to Neville Roy Singham, a billionaire whose network has also funded organizations linked to the Chinese Communist Party and other anti-American regimes. Another figure, Manolo de los Santos of the People’s Forum, has taken repeated trips to Cuba since at least 2009 and appears often in official Cuban media, reflecting a close, long-standing relationship with the regime.

Fox News Digital reports that Justice Department and Treasury Department officials are now investigating about 145 nonprofits and activist groups for allegedly coordinating messaging, lobbying, delegations, and fundraising with Cuban officials as part of a foreign influence campaign. These probes have not yet resulted in public charges, but they show federal concern that some U.S. charities and protest groups may be acting as unregistered foreign agents while presenting themselves as grassroots voices.

Cuba’s Long Game and the Battle Over the Narrative

The Cuba report is part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to treat the communist regime as a serious national security threat, not a relic of the Cold War. President Trump formally declared that Cuba poses an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to U.S. national security and foreign policy, triggering a national emergency authority to target regime-linked actors and choke off their reach inside the United States. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has warned that Havana has spent decades cultivating far-left activists, shaping protests, and even infiltrating parts of the federal government.

Cuba Activists Prep Protest Blitz at US Bases & ICE

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The National Network on Cuba and its allies deny that they are fronts for foreign terrorism, calling the report “untrue” and insisting that Cuba rejects terrorism. Left-leaning media and academics have already tried to cast the findings as partisan or overblown, the same way many once brushed off warnings about Russian, Chinese, and Iranian interference in American politics. But the combination of a public protest blueprint aimed at U.S. bases and immigration sites, formal sanctions on a Cuban government partner, and an active federal investigation raises real concerns for Americans who care about border security, the military, and sovereignty at home.