IRA's Gerry Adams Visits Cuba. (Insider Report).

Gerry Adams, the president of the Irish Republican Army's political arm, Sinn Fein, made a three-day visit to Communist Cuba in December. One of his purposes in making the trip was to unveil a memorial to the IRA "martyrs," 10 terrorists who starved themselves to death in a hunger strike at Belfast's Maze Prison in 1981. "When the 10 hunger strikers died, there was strong support from Cuba, and especially from President Fidel Castro," Adams told reporters on his arrival at Havana airport on December 16th. CNN reported on December 17th that "Adams said there was much for Irish republicans to learn from the Cubans, and commended their work to overcome illiteracy and improve their health services."

The CNN report also noted: "Three suspected IRA members are currently jailed in Colombia suspected of training left-wing FARC rebels there. One of those arrested was Niall Connolly -- Sinn Fein's representative in Cuba. Adams initially denied that Connolly was a Sinn Fein official, then said he had been appointed to the post without his knowledge." As we reported earlier in these pages, Connolly was arrested in August, along with IRA leaders Martin John McCauley and James Monaghan, in Bogota, Colombia. All three men had false passports and, according to Colombian authorities, forensic tests showed that all three had been handling explosives and drugs. It is believed that the trio, all of whom are IRA explosives specialists, were training the Cuban-backed FARC for a new wave of terror in Colombia and other Latin American countries.