Cuban detained with more than 1,000 weapons confesses to being a member of the Alpha 66 terrorist group

by Jean-Guy Allard
CUBAN Robert Ferro, arrested with an arsenal of more than 1,000 weapons in a house in Upland, California, claims to be a member of Alpha 66, a U.S.-based terrorist group with offices in Miami, with a long history of criminal actions against Cuba.

However, authorities have not yet pressed charges invoking anti-terrorism laws. Ferro is being charged only with arms trafficking. Neither have the leaders of Alpha 66 been questioned in relation to this spectacular capture.

Ferro, a retired member of the U.S. Army Special Forces, was accused in the early 90’s of running a paramilitary camp on a chicken farm in Pomona, California. He then bragged about being dedicated to “overthrowing” the Cuban Revolution. On that occasion, the authorities found five pounds of C-4, a potent military explosive.

The Alpha 66 member was then convicted, in 1992, for “possession of illegal explosives” and sentenced to two years in prison.

Now, at 61 years old, he was arrested after authorities raided his house and found hundreds of rifles, machine guns and pistols. It was then when Ferro told federal investigators that he belongs to the commando group Alpha 66, according to a judicial statement presented before a federal court by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms.