Intelligence

Cold War Shortwave

January 12, 2012
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First Cuban-born female officer

November 13, 2011

Lt. Colonel Mercedes O. Cubria was the first Cuban-born female officer in the U.S. Army. According to the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Museum at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona: Lt. Col. Cubria was born in Guantanamo, Cuba, in 1903. Emigrating to the U.S. at the age of 13, she joined the Women’s Army Corps in 1943, soon earning [...]

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Cuba’s military high command

November 10, 2011

Army General Raul Castro Ruz (Commander-in-Chief) Army Corps General Leopoldo Cintra Frias (Defense Minister) Army Corps General Alvaro Lopez Miera (Deputy Defense Minister & Chief, General Staff) Army Corps General Joaquin Quinta Sola (Assistant Deputy Defense Minister) Army Corps General Ramon Espinosa Martin (Assistant Deputy Defense Minister) Division General Lucio Juan Morales Abad (Chief, Western [...]

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Mysterious Russian numbers station

October 5, 2011

This month’s Wired magazine has a great article on the strange Russian numbers station, UVB-76: From a lonely rusted tower in a forest north of Moscow, a mysterious shortwave radio station transmitted day and night. For at least the decade leading up to 1992, it broadcast almost nothing but beeps; after that, it switched to [...]

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Two million Chinese spies

September 23, 2011

The Diplomat has a fairly extensive article on the expansive threat of China’s intelligence apparatus: the communist-controlled People’s Republic of China operates the single largest intelligence-gathering apparatus in the world—and its growing appetite for secrets has apparently become insatiable…From economic and military espionage to keeping tabs on exiled dissidents, China’s global spying operations are rapidly [...]

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Havana & Caracas: Symbiotic Relationship

September 14, 2011

Via the Financial Times: Carlos Romero, an expert on Cuba-Venezuela relations at the Centraniversity of Venezuela, calculates that accumulated aid from Caracas to Havana between 1999 and 2009 amounts to $19.4bn, about 70 per cent of Venezuela’s total foreign aid during that period. That includes $14.2bn in payment for professional services such as doctors and [...]

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