For the 65th anniversary of the Cuban revolution on January 1st, six of the most important dissenting officers in the regime’s history issue a historic warning on the global threat it poses and call on their 
former comrades to end "the corrupt tyranny subjugating and impoverishing the Cuban people."
The signatories of the remarkable open letter are a former member of the Central Committee of Cuba’s Communist Party and Chief of Staff for ten years of Raul Castro's office, a Brigadier General and Deputy Chief for Air Defense, three high-ranking officers of the Intelligence Directorate, and a Lieutenant Colonel who called for Fidel Castro's resignation. All live outside Cuba having broken their ties with the dictatorship; some are sentenced to death for alleged "treason."
The former regime insiders warn that Cuba has recruited a large number of spies and agents of influence in many countries and that, in the United States, the indictment last December of former ambassador Manuel Rocha and prior prison sentences of high-ranking officials are the tip of the iceberg. These are not isolated cases –they write– but the result of decades of work whose exponential returns are “hard to imagine.”
Cuba’s intelligence services, they forewarn, direct the narrative seeking to minimize the regime's international influence and the damage caused by its agents. The latter’s motivations they note, are exalted despite their defense of a totalitarian military regime that has destroyed the nation.
The renowned defectors urge democratic governments to allocate adequate counterintelligence resources to neutralize Cuba’s intelligence services, control the accreditation of Cuban diplomats, optimize security clearance reviews, adequately prepare government officials, and issue widespread alerts on Cuba’s methodology of surveillance, blackmail, and recruitment. They also urge the U.S. government to "carefully assess the impact caused by Rocha in his long career as an agent of Cuba."
Finally, the one-time Cuban officials call on their former peers to break their chains —as they did— to end the dictatorship and to reject “fraudulent mutations” to create a democracy that will allow the sovereign people to "build the prosperous society they deserve."
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