L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and Cuban Intelligence

“In the mid-1970s, California Congresswoman Karen Bass…was an organizer for the Venceremos Brigade…” reads the biographical record of Bass described in Armin Rosen’s article in Tablet magazine in 2020. An event blurb in an October 1975 issue of the communist Daily World newspaper describes Bass, then 22, as “leader of the Venceremos Brigade in southern California” who, as a “brigadista” and then organizer for the Venceremos Brigades, “visited Cuba every 6 months.” In that heady Age of Aquarius, hundreds of starry-eyed college kids were volunteering to “help build Cuban Socialism” and “fight U.S. Imperialism,” mostly by joyfully cutting Cuban sugar...