While early accounts indicated Gross' work involved the island's Jewish community, Adela Dworin, vice president of Patronato Hebreo Cubano, Cuba's largest Jewish organization, said she does not know Gross. News that he was working with a Jewish group "was a surprise and very worrying for us," she said. Dworin wouldn't be alive if Cuba had not accepted her parents as refugees after they escaped the Holocaust, she explained. "We are grateful to this country," she said, going on to clarify that the Patronato Hebrero Cubano is not a political group "We feel very Cuban. We have always tried to stay outside politics."
She continued, "We are interested in Jewish culture. What interest would we have in espionage or improving our access to the Internet? Why? I don't think any Jewish organization in the country is mixed up in that." Dworin, based in Havana, reported that the Island's Jewish community is small, about 1,500. It's likely Gross entered Cuba as a tourist, she claimed, and while it's possible she met him, she doesn't remember it. "From October to May, we get hundreds and hundreds of Jewish religious visitors. If you put him here in front of me, I may know who he is."
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