Cuban spooks intensify activities

Via AFP:

Cuba’s vast international spy network, considered among the best in the world, will remain intact under the leadership of the new president Raul Castro, intelligence experts say.

Havana will probably even ramp up its information gathering in the months leading up to the November elections seeking to win a firm handle on the policies of the next US president, said Chris Simmons, a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) counterintelligence Cuba analyst.

“Havana has an insatiable appetite for information about US military operations as well as US intelligence operations,” Simmons said.

That need has become even more pressing since Raul Castro took on the reins of power from his ailing brother, Fidel, in the first change of leadership in almost half a century on the communist-ruled island.

[H/T: La Nueva Cuba]

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