A snippet from an article about her. Would take it with many grains of salt but still interesting..

The far-left "brigade" of pro-Communist Cuba activists which Karen Bass was a key member of years ago is currently embedded in the Chinese Communist Party-linked financial network that is behind the Los Angeles protests — some of which have turned violent — in the city where she is now mayor.

Decades ago, Bass was a member of — and was repeatedly identified as a leader in — the Venceremos Brigade (VB), a far-left activist group sympathetic to the Communist revolution in Cuba and which U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies as well as Cuban defectors have identified as being co-opted by Cuban intelligence services. The VB was also linked to violent groups such as the Weather Underground.

Nowadays, the VB is fiscally sponsored by a Manhattan-based Communist organization known as The People’s Forum, which is part of wealthy Marxist businessman Neville Singham’s broad financial network. The VB is also tied to other Singham-linked endeavors such as the far-left BreakThrough News as well as the radical revolutionary Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL).

The Marxist PSL has also been a key organizer of the protests in Los Angeles and elsewhere, which have sought to oppose the efforts by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) to crack down on illegal immigration.

The VB’s website says that it “is an entirely volunteer-run grassroots organization and we need the support of our friends, comrades, and supporters to continue this critical anti-imperialist work” and that “the People’s Forum (‘TPF’), a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is the Venceremos Brigade’s fiscal sponsor.”

The brigade’s website touts that “in the last 50 years, approximately 10,000 people from the US have traveled to Cuba with the VB, including elected officials, labor leaders, artists and entertainers, academics, activists, and social movement leaders.” In the 1970s, Bass — the activist turned congresswoman turned mayor — was one of them.

David Atlee Phillips, the chief of the Latin America Division of the CIA until 1975, penned an article in 1982 where he assessed that Communist Cuba’s Intelligence Directorate — Dirección General de Inteligencia or DGI — had a strong level of control over the VB.

Seeking positions of power in U.S. government

“Psychological warfare experts consider the DGI-sponsored Venceremos ("We Will Win") Brigades one of the most successful covert political operations in modern history,” the retired CIA official wrote. “Some 2,500 Americans, in 10 contingents, visited Cuba between 1969 and 1977. The ostensible purpose was to cut Cuban sugar cane. In fact, the Americans were encouraged to destroy their own society.”

And decades ago, The New York Times obtained a 400-page FBI report from 1976 which described Cuban intelligence’s sway over the VB, and said Cuba’s goal with the VB was to place its assets and allies into positions of power inside the U.S. government.

The FBI assessed that the DGI’s goal “is the recruitment of individuals who are politically oriented and who someday may obtain a position, elective or appointive, somewhere in the U.S. Government, which would provide the Cuban Government with access to political, economic, and military intelligence.”

Bass, who was reportedly considered to be President Joe Biden’s running mate ahead of the 2020 election, eulogized Communist Cuban dictator Fidel Castro when he died in 2016, referring to the revolutionary strongman as “Comandante en Jefe” or Commander-in-Chief.

“As Cuba begins nine days of mourning, I wish to express my condolences to the Cuban people and the family of Fidel Castro,” Bass wrote. “The passing of the Comandante en Jefe is a great loss to the people of Cuba. I hope together, our two nations will continue on the new path of support and collaboration with one another, and continue in the new direction of diplomacy.”

Trump has activated elements of the California National Guard while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton are being deployed “to restore order” in Bass's city as well.

“If I didn’t ‘SEND IN THE TROOPS’ to Los Angeles the last three nights, that once beautiful and great City would be burning to the ground right now,” Trump said on his Truth Social account on Tuesday.

The Los Angeles mayor told PBS this week that "the federalization of the National Guard was completely unwarranted" and claimed it would "provoke the population even further."

Bass did not respond to a request for comment sent to her office by Just the News. The VB and the People’s Forum also did not respond to requests for comment. Singham did not respond to a request for comment sent to him through his ThoughtWorks company