AP says it obtained more than 1,000 pages of documents from contractors about the development of ZunZuneo. One memo read there will be absolutely no mention of U.S. involvement.
Its true that every agency of the U.S. government, including unclassified programs, wants to protect certain details on who theyre working with and all of that, said Fulton Armstrong, who was working for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the time. But this was far beyond. We were told we couldnt even be told in broad terms what was happening because, quote, People will die.
Not a covert operation
USAID ZunZuneo Project Manager Joe McSpedon refused to talk when asked if the project was a covert operation.
White House spokesman Jay Carney also rebuffed such allegations.
USAID is a development agency not an intelligence agency. Suggestions that this was a covert program are wrong, he said. Congress funds democracy programming for Cuba to help empower Cubans to access more information and strengthen civil society. These appropriations are public unlike covert action.
Carney also says that this was discussed in Congress and reviewed by the Government Accountability Office.
GAO [Government Accountability Office] reviewed this program in detail in 2013 and found that it was conducted in accordance to U.S. law and under appropriate oversight controls, he said. In implementing programs in non-permissive environments, of course the government has taken steps to be discreet; thats how you protect practitioners and the public. This is not unique to Cuba.
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