By John Rice , Associated Press Writer. With admitted irony, Cuba on Thursday endorsed U.S. legislation to aid dissidents on the island, saying it would display U.S. efforts to create subversion in the communist nation.
Dissidents deny such allegations.
The proposal was authored by a group of senators led by Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. He grew more serious when asked what Cuba might do with dissidents who receive such funds. In the total of all countries, to receive money from a foreign power to organize subversive activities inside the country is a crime,'' Perez Roque said. He declined to be specific. We do not renounce any options,'' he said, comparing it to a guerrilla struggle based on surprise.