'Cuban Twitter' _overtly political, poking Castros
WASHINGTON (AP) ― 草案 messages produced for a Twitter-like 網状組織 that the U.S. 政府 内密に built in Cuba were overtly political and poked fun at the Castro brothers, 文書s 得るd by The Associated 圧力（をかける） show. The messages 衝突 with （人命などを）奪う，主張するs by the Obama 行政 that the program had no U.S.-生成するd political content and was never ーするつもりであるd to 動かす 不安 on the island.
公表，暴露 of the messages, as 述べるd in 内部の 文書s, （機の）カム as the 長，率いる of the U.S. 機関 for International 開発 told 議会 in いつかs- confrontational 証言 Tuesday that his 機関's program was "絶対 not" covert and was 簡単に meant to 増加する the flow of （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状）.
An AP 調査 last week 設立する that the program, known as ZunZuneo, 避けるd Cuba's Internet 制限s by creating a text-messaging service that could be used to 組織する political demonstrations. It drew tens of thousands of 加入者s who were unaware it was 支援するd by the U.S. 政府.
上院 小委員会 on 明言する／公表する, Foreign 操作／手術s and 関係のある Programs Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT., 権利, 会談 with US 機関 for International 開発 (USAID) 行政官／管理者 Dr. Rajiv Shah on （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2014, に引き続いて the 委員会's 審理，公聴会 of the USAID's 会計の 2015 予算. Leahy 需要・要求するd to know who （機の）カム up with the idea to 開始する，打ち上げる a secret "Cuba Twitter" social 網状組織 system. Speaking at the 小委員会 審理，公聴会, Leahy called the 事業／計画（する） "cockamamie." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
At an oversight 審理，公聴会 Tuesday, Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont told USAID 行政官／管理者 Rajiv Shah that the program was "cockamamie" and not adequately 述べるd to 議会.
USAID, known 世界的な for its 人道的な work, has 繰り返して 持続するd it did not send out political messages under the 事業／計画（する）. Leahy asked Shah whether the 事業／計画（する）'s goal was to "影響（力） political 条件s abroad by 集会 （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） about Cuban cellphone 使用者s" or "to encourage popular 対立 to the Cuban 政府."
"No, that is not 訂正する," Shah said. "The 目的 of the program was to support 接近 to （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状） and to 許す people to communicate with each other," he said. "It was not for the 目的 you just articulated."
But some messages sent to Cuban cellphones were sharp political satire. One 早期に message sent on Aug. 7, 2009, took 目的（とする） at the former Cuban 遠隔通信s 大臣, Ramiro Valdes, who had once 警告するd tha t the Internet was a "wild colt" that "should be tamed."
"最新の: Cuban dies of 電気の shock from laptop. 'I told you so,' 宣言するs a 満足させるd Ramiro. 'Those machines are 武器s of the enemy!'"
Others were 示すd in 文書s as 草案s, and it was not すぐに （疑いを）晴らす if they were 最終的に transmitted by the service, which the 政府 said 中止するd in 2012 because of a 欠如（する） of 基金ing.
Said one 草案 message: "THE BACKWARDS WORLD: 54% of Americans think Michael Jackson is alive and 86% of Cubans think Fidel Castro is dead." Another called Castro the "The 昏睡-andante," a 言及／関連 to Fidel's age.
"No," wrote 組織者s, 明らかに 拒む，否認するing that text. "Too political."
A USAID 広報担当者 did not すぐに reply to a request 捜し出すing comment Tuesday.
Last Thursday, 明言する／公表する Department 副 spokeswoman Marie Harf said that "no political content was ever 供給（する）d by anyone working on this 事業／計画（する） or running it. It was the people ― the Cuban people on the ground who were doing so."
However, Alen Lauzan Falcon, a Havana-born satirical artist based in Chile, said Tuesday that he was 雇うd to 令状 the political texts, though he was never told about ZunZuneo's U.S. origins.
"I don't do cultural humor," he said. "I do political humor. Everything I do is politics even if it is humor about politics."
"明白に it has to be covert, there is no way you can do something like this in Cuba without someone 支払う／賃金ing a price," he said.
Some 国会議員s in Washington have 表明するd support for ZunZuneo since the AP's 初めの 公表，暴露. The 最新の （機の）カム at a second 審理，公聴会 on Tuesday, this one be fore a House 小委員会. Two Florida 国会議員s ― 民主党員 Debbie Wasserman Schultz and 共和国の／共和党の Mario Diaz-Balart ― said the Cuba 事業／計画（する） was successful.
Sen. （頭が）ひょいと動く Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the 上院 Foreign Relations 委員会, and Rep. Albio Sires, D-N.J., the 最高の，を越す 民主党員 on the House Foreign 事件／事情／状勢s Western 半球 小委員会, said USAID should be 拍手喝采する for giving people in Cuba a いっそう少なく-controlled 壇・綱領・公約 to talk to each other.
But Leahy and other 国会議員s questioned how 完全に 議会 was 知らせるd of the 事業／計画（する）. They've said it's been 述べるd only in 幅の広い 条件 and they were given no 指示，表示する物s of the program's 危険s, its political nature or the 広範囲にわたる 成果／努力s to 隠す Washington's 関与.
Shah said that 議会 has been 通知するd about this program every year since 2008 in 文書s 輪郭（を描く）ing USAID's 予算. "The fact that we are discussing it in this 会議, and that it is an unclassified program, illustrates that this is not a covert 成果／努力," he said.
He said "parts of it were done 慎重に" to 保護する the people 伴う／関わるd. He 特記する／引用するd a 熟考する／考慮する by the 政府 Accountability Office into 僕主主義 昇進／宣伝 programs run by USAID and the 明言する／公表する Department ― 含むing the Cuban Twitter 事業／計画（する） ― that 設立する the programs to be 一貫した with the 法律.
But the author of the GAO 熟考する／考慮する, David Gootnick, told the AP this week that 捜査官／調査官s did not 診察する the question of whether the programs were covert. Gootnick said the GAO's 報告（する）／憶測 was 焦点（を合わせる）d on 診察するing the extent that USAID knew what its 請負業者s were doing. It 設立する that the 機関 was adequately 監視するing the work, but "we did not ask, nor did we 報告（する）／憶測, on the 知恵 of 行為／行うing such activities."
Shah 持続するd his 機関's position Tuesday that the AP's 報告（する）／憶測 had a number of 批判的な inaccuracies. He said the 機関 operates transparently and 公式文書，認めるd that he was discussing the Cuba program in Tuesday's open congressional 審理，公聴会.
Shah said USAID did not 始める，決める up a Spanish company to help run ZunZuneo. But 戦略 文書s and expense 報告（する）／憶測s 得るd by the AP show the 事業／計画（する） not only planned to 設立する the Spanish company but also 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d an end-of-month expense of $12,500 for the 合併／会社設立 costs. USAID has not 論争d that 請負業者s 始める，決める up a 爆撃する company in the Cayman islands called MovilChat that was used to hide the program's money 追跡する.
In a blog 地位，任命するd Monday, USAID said 言及／関連s to the use of "smart 暴徒s" in 文書s "had nothing to do with Cuba nor ZunZuneo," though the two are 明確に 言及／関連d.
The 機関 also said several CEO 候補者s for the 網状組織's company were told explicitly that the U.S. 政府 was 伴う／関わるd. 文書s show the creators of ZunZuneo 手配中の，お尋ね者 to keep the origins of the service secret from CEO 候補者s. The AP 接触するd two of the 候補者s, both of whom said they'd interviewed for the 職業 with no idea of U.S. 関与.
The program's 影響s could be far-reaching. Leahy said USAID 従業員s have been 接触するing the oversight 委員会 to complain that such 隠しだてする programs put them at 危険 because they 運動 perceptions that the 機関 is engaged in 知能-like activities.
"We're already getting emails from USAID 従業員s all over the world 説, 'How could they do this and put us in danger?'" Leahy said.
Leahy, whose 発言する／表明する at times grew angry, 需要・要求するd to know whose idea it was "to 請け負う this program in this manner." Shah said ZunZuneo was designed in 2007 and 2008, although it 開始する，打ち上げるd 公然と in Cuba in 2010 ― すぐに after Shah was 確認するd as USAID's 長，指導者.
The 開始する，打ち上げる （機の）カム months after American 請負業者 Alan 甚だしい／１２ダース was 逮捕（する）d in Cuba. He was 拘留するd after traveling 繰り返して on a separate, 内密の USAID 使節団 to 拡大する Cuban Internet 接近 using 極度の慎重さを要する 科学（工学）技術 that only 政府s use.
早期に Tuesday, 甚だしい／１２ダース' lawyer 解放（する）d a 声明 that his （弁護士の）依頼人 was going on a hunger strike. The ZunZuneo story was "one of the factors" 甚だしい／１２ダース took into account in 関係 with his hunger strike, the 弁護士／代理人／検事 said.
"Once Alan was 逮捕（する）d, it is shocking that USAID would imperil his safety even その上の by running a covert 操作／手術 in Cuba," said the lawyer, Scott Gilbert. "USAID has made one absurdly bad 決定／判定勝ち（する） after another."
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Orsi 報告（する）／憶測d from Havana. Associated 圧力（をかける） writer Richard Lardner in Washington and Alberto Arce in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 与える／捧げるd to this 報告（する）／憶測.
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接触する the AP's Washington investigative team at DCinvestigations@ap.org. Follow on Twitter: Butler at http://twitter.com/desmondbutler and Gillum at http://twitter.com/jackgillum.
上院 小委員会 on 明言する／公表する, Foreign 操作／手術s and 関係のある Programs Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT., 最高の，を越す, questions US 機関 for International 開発 (USAID) 行政官／管理者 Dr. Rajiv Shah, 底（に届く）, on （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2014, during the 委員会's 審理，公聴会 of the USAID's 会計の 2015 予算. Leahy 需要・要求するd to know who （機の）カム up with the idea to 開始する，打ち上げる a secret "Cuba Twitter" social 網状組織 system. Speaking at the 小委員会 審理，公聴会, Leahy called the 事業／計画（する） "cockamamie." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
In this April 1, 2014, photo, a 調書をとる／予約する street vendor passes the time on her smart phone as she waits for custo mers in Havana, Cuba. The 行政官／管理者 of the U.S. 機関 for International 開発 on Tuesday begins a 一連の 外見s Tuesday, April 8, 2014, before 国会議員s asking questions about his 機関?s secret ?Cuban Twitter,? a social マスコミ 網状組織 built to 動かす 不安 in the 共産主義者 island. First up in the 尋問 of 行政官／管理者 Rajiv Shah is Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who 公然と called the social マスコミ program ?dumb, dumb, dumb.? (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
