Support for agent Kent from the country of Dracula

by Jean Guy Allard
CIA collaborator Robert Kent, inventor of the miniscule Friends of Cuban Libraries group dedicated to spreading disinformation on Cuba to library organizations, has been assigned a new assistant. Pursuing the plan to join forces with East Europeans in order to attack Cuban socialism, the obsessive New Yorker has carried out his latest operation against the American Library Association in cooperation with a U.S. poet of Romanian origin, Andrei Codrescu.

This individual is the third pseudo-European recruited by Kent in line with his plan to create a parallel between Eastern Europe and Cuba at all costs, a maneuver that doubtless corresponds to the strategy of the anti-Cuba think tank located in the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

Codrescu abandoned his country in 1965 at the age of 19.

Codrescu turned up in the United States in 1966, where he began his immersion in New York by hanging around Allen Ginsberg and his troupe then in fashion in the East Village. It was then that he first used a fictitious name to publish poems that were regarded as mediocre. He signed them as Maria Pardfenie and he continued using women’s names until his recent transformation. In fact it was not his literary prose that made this Romanian known in the United States, but a National Public Radio (NPR) program titled "All Things Considered," in which he became somewhat famous. Andrei Codrescu always used his status as an "immigrant from a communist country" to secure an audience in a country where McCarthyism apparently has indestructible roots. He obtained his U.S. citizenship in 1981.

Without any doubt it was his virulent anti-communist stance that afforded him opportunities such as his current position as a professor at the University of New Orleans despite that fact that he never graduated from an institution at this level. It also explains his presence at the side of a character like Robert Kent, itinerant agent of the "Friends of Cuban Libraries".

Two very particular missions have illustrated Codrescu’s political development. December 1989, the poet-commentator was assigned the task of observing the changes occurring in Romania from within. The book that resulted from this peregrination, The Hole in the Flag, received a barrage of criticism, especially for the many chronological and geographical errors it contained.

In 1998, he repeated this offense after a visit to Havana with Ay, Cuba: a Socio-Erotic Journey, a repugnant work that highlights his fascination with adolescents. Codrescu, who doesn’t speak three words of Spanish, visited the island for two days in order to write a text full of disdain and, once again, full of nonsense.

MILLIONS TO THE DIRTY WAR

The United States spends hundreds of millions of tax dollars per annum to attack Cuba. The administration that abandoned the predominantly African-American community of New Orleans is the same one that maintains an expensive propagandistic apparatus based in Southern Florida to damage the island’s image. For carrying out these campaigns, Kent is trying to harness the mysterious "support" of Eastern Europe. At the last World Congress of Librarians in Oslo, it was revealed that the "Czech connection" which Kent tried to utilize was put together by a U.S. military intelligence official of Czech origin. "Stanley" or "Stan" Kalkus emigrated from Czechoslovakia to Austria in 1948 and later to the United States in 1951, where he settled in Chicago. According to communications with his friends, a mere 12 months after his arrival in the United States he was recruited by its military intelligence. Kalkus then joined the U.S. armed forces and spent many years "working" for the intelligence branch in various parts of the world.

The "Czech librarian" Stanislav "Stan" Kalkus still lives – at least six months of the year – at his real residence in Newport, Rhode Island.