Cuban News Agency

---

An article posted on the Progresso Weekly website, the director of Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up tells details about the encounter with Gerardo, who was  charged of conspiring to commit murder because “he allegedly – the government offered no evidence – passed the flight information to Cuban authorities knowing they would shoot the planes
down,” reads the article.

After reporting to the guards, Gerardo hugged the visitor who had been waiting at the visiting room. Immediately afterwards, he started talking about ideas to force the National Security Agency to release its vectored map of the Feb 24, 1996, shoot down of two Brothers to he Rescue planes by Cuban MIGs.

Landau recalled that the NSA refused defense attorney’s subpoenas to deliver their vectored maps during the trial and appeal ignored under the excuse of being a “National Security” matter.

The US scholar asked Gerardo about what had motivated the FBI to arrest him and his four colleagues, to which the Cuban replied: “Hector Pesquera,” and added that Pesquera had been named Agent in Charge of the Miami Bureau and immediately focused his attention away from the terrorists and onto the anti-terrorists.

Landau said that after the jury handed down the guilty verdict on the Cuban Five, Pesquera proudly boasted to a Miami radio station that “he was the one who switched his agents’ focus from spying on the spies to filing charges against them.”

At the end of his article, Landau wrote: “We hugged goodbye. Gerardo raised a triumphant fist before returning to his cell. I walked into the dry desert wind, to the car and the road, down 5,000 feet and 40 miles to the Ontario, California airport with a chance to think about justice and injustice, again,”