The Travel Channel’s Useful Idiot

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Front Page Magazine:

On July 12th the Travel Channel ran an episode of Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” where he travels to Cuba highlighting the food, people, sights and sounds, etc. At the end he gushes: “Yes, go to Cuba!” This probably strikes most Travel Channel viewers as perfectly innocent and as professionally appropriate.

Here’s some background information mostly unknown to Travel Channel viewers:

Neck to neck with Hugo Chavez subsidies, Castro’s Stalinist regime lives off of tourism. And Cuba’s intelligence and military sector owns 80 percent of the tourist industry, as documented to Congress by retired Defense Intelligence Agency Cuba analyst, Lt. Col. Chris Simmons. Therefore, yet another Travel Channel infomercial (Zimmern visited in 2009) for Cuba was a godsend to the Stalinist nomenklatura—especially right now with their Venezuelan sugar daddy in perilous health.

Those charming, smiling hosts who escorted Bourdain around Castro’s fiefdom were all regime apparatchiks. Immediately upon applying for his Cuban visa, well before Bourdain even set foot in Cuba, Castro’s intelligence had Bourdain completely investigated and his future escorts completely briefed. The procedure started the day he applied for a Cuban visa, as also explained by Lt. Col. Christopher Simmons. That your official “guides” while visiting a Communist nation are regime apparatchiks was common knowledge even to proto-imbeciles all during the Cold War. Bourdain was born in 1956.


Mr Simmons is a Lieutenant Colonel who specialized in Cuban counterintelligence and spy-catching and recently retired from the Defense Intelligence Agency. In 25 years as a U.S. military counterintelligence officer, Lt. Col. Simmons ended the operations of 80 enemy agents, many of whom are today behind bars. He played a key role in cracking what is considered America’s most “damaging spy scandal since the end of the Cold War.” This spy scandal featured Ana Montes, awarded the “Certificate of Distinction,” and promoted by the Clinton administration to head the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Cuba division. Due partly to Lt. Col. Simmons’ investigative work, on September 20th 2001 (under Bush), Ms. Montes was arrested by the FBI as a Castro spy and accused of the same crime as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. After conviction, only a plea bargain allowed the Clinton administration’s top “Cuba expert” to escape the fate of the Rosenbergs.