to moscow with the attention of flying onto havana, which had promised him safe passage, that the nikahen fly to the northern part of latin america where he would request asylum. it was only because on the flight from hong kong to moscow when it u.s. government with no due process unilaterally revoked his passport, declared invalid, and then bullied and threatened the cubans out of rescinding offer a safe passage, today force them to remain in russia. he stayed there for five weeks. as he said, if i were a russian spy, do you think i would have been given that welcome of being forced to stay in the russian airport for five weeks? during this time, the u.s. government showed how radical it would be. there was a plane they thought that he was on that was actually the bolivian president evo morales. despite no evidence was on the plane, they forced it down by preventing overflight rights. to land ined austria. the fact they were going to force down the plane of a president of a sovereign country based on a whim showed they were physically going to force him to stay in russia, not let him