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FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2011 file photo, Felice Gorordo, co-founder of Roots of Hope, is photographed in Lafayette Square near the White House in Washington. Leaders with the largest nonprofit organization for young Cuban-Americans quietly provided strategic support for the federal government’s secret "Cuban Twitter" program, connecting contractors with potential investors and even serving as paid consultants, The Associated Press has learned. Also, in 2011 Creative Associates officer Xavier Utset approached Gorordo, whom he knew through their mutual interest in Cuba, about spinning off the ZunZuneo project. In an interview with the AP, Gorordo confirmed he’d been asked to help identify donors but did not know there was an agenda behind the program. "Personally I thought it had merit. It wasn't political. It had the goal of promoting shared information," Gorordo said. "But it was not viable, because it was a government project, and we do not accept U.S. government funding." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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