Glenn Beck and Data Republican are drawing attention to relationships between American activist organizations and Cuban institutions, focusing on the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, or ICAP, and its work with the National Network on Cuba.

Beck framed the issue as the next step in examining connections among U.S.-based organizations that he and Data Republican had previously discussed.

"So far, we've looked at the American side, DSA and NOC, Hatuy, People's Forum. But what happens when organizations in this American network interact with institutions inside Cuba? Who are those institutions? Who runs those? And what can we actually document about those relationships? Because one Cuban institution has, well, let's just call it an interesting relationship with this insane network. It's ICAP, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples."

Beck pointed to NNOC’s own description of its relationship with ICAP.

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"From NNOC's own website, they state, "quote Each year, the NNOC works with ICAP, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples. Why is this interesting? Maybe due to this. In June, the United States Treasury Department did something significant. It put ICAP on its sanctions program. The president of ICAP is somebody named Fernando Gonzalez Lort, who is he?""

The presentation’s narrator described ICAP as a Cuban state-linked entity and highlighted the background of its president.

"ICAP is the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, a Cuban state-linked organization that works with foreign solidarity groups, and Fernando Gonzalez-Lort has a history with Cuban intelligence."

Data Republican expanded on that history and argued that ICAP provides a point of contact between Cuban institutions and U.S.-based organizations.

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"The Fernando you speak of is a member of the Cuban Wasp Network, which is a network of what we can call Cuban-aligned people, five of them allegedly participating in espionage activities. He was convicted, but later became the president of Cuban state organization ICAP."

Data Republican continued by describing NNOC as the American side of the relationship.

"ICAP is where the Cuba side of this network begins to connect with American organizations because it's essentially the Cuban government interfaced with national network on Cuba. The national network on Cuba, the one that's linked to DSA, the Hat to Way Project, and more, is the American side you need to remember here."

Data Republican argued that trips involving far-left organizations and ICAP should be viewed in light of those state connections.

"What this proves is, you know, there's a lot of state connections when all those far-left organizations make trips to Cuba and are facilitated by this ICAP, and it's not benign."

Beck then pointed to U.S. court records regarding the Cuban Five and the WASP network.

"He's one of the Cuban Five, the defendants associated with Cuba's WASP network. What is that? U.S. Department court records describe the members of that network as operatives of Cuba's Directorate of Intelligence. What is that? That is the Cuban version of the Soviet Union's KGB. It's Cuba's main foreign intelligence service."

Beck characterized the relationships in stark terms.

"American organizations in this coalition are in bed with the Cuban KGB. I don't know. That's kind of crazy."

He also cited a State Department report that he said identified a range of American organizations connected to the broader network.

"Try this. Back in July, the State Department released a report on Cuba, calling the failed communist state "quote the capital of 21st-century communism. In this report, the State Department listed multiple groups. Many of them you've heard about tonight. They are National Lawyers Guild, the People's Forum, Tricontinental, Code Pink, IFCO, Pastors for Peace, Global Exchange, DSA."

According to Beck, several of those groups also appear on NNOC’s membership roster, leading him to question the flow of nonprofit funding behind organizations operating in the same network.

The narrator summarized the structure laid out in the presentation.

"Let's recap. Here's the picture: ICAP is the Cuban state-linked organization on one side, NNOC is the U.S. coalition it works with on the other. Several American groups called out by the State Department are members of NNOC, and those groups have traceable U.S. nonprofit funding behind them. And remember, some of that nonprofit funding is thanks to those fiscal sponsorships we already explained."

Data Republican estimated the amount of money flowing into organizations she said were involved in some way with foreign governments.

"18 million, I believe, is the money flowing into organizations that are involved in some way with foreign governments, hostile foreign governments with Cuba and Venezuela and the like."

She argued that even that amount could support significant activity.

"18 million sounds small, but if you think about it, that's a lot of people who are involved in taking trips to hostile nations, and taking those trips to do things like revolutionary training, and in some cases terrorist training, and bringing that information back to America."

Beck closed by emphasizing an important distinction about the nearly $19 million figure. He said it should not be interpreted as money directly delivered to Cuba.

"Nearly 19 million dollars spread out between all of them in U.S. nonprofit money. This is not money delivered to Cuba. This is merely some of the dollars that are floating around within this entire monstrous network, and the DSA operates, as we've explored tonight, within this network."

A convicted former operative of the Cuban version of the KGB is running a state agency coordinating directly with DSA-linked American political organizations. Yeah, nothing to see here, right?

The DSA is a member of the National Network on Cuba. Every year, that group works hand-in-hand with a Cuban state entity called ICAP (the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples), which is sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department. The president of ICAP is a convicted member of Cuba’s Wasp Network, identified in U.S. court records as operatives of the Directorate of Intelligence of Cuba, their main foreign intelligence service (basically, the Cuban KGB). This is the global communist network the DSA is connected to. — Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) October 15, 2026

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