counterintelligence

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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Secret police informants still unidentified

August 8, 2011

Fifty years after the construction of the Berlin Wall, thousands of West German spies for the former East German Stasi secret police have yet to be identified, an official was quoted as saying Saturday. Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives Roland Jahn told the German daily Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung that some 12,000 people in the former West Germany operated as informants for the [...]

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Intro to Cuban Intel

July 19, 2011

The Virginia-based Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies (CI CENTRE) is offering a one-day introductory counterintelligence course on “one of the most effective and least known of the Communist intelligence organizations: the Cuban Directorate of Intelligence (DI) of the Ministry of Interior.” The course covers the “qualifications, selection process, and training of Cuban intelligence officers and [...]

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Cuban intelligence freely operates in Venezuela

November 30, 2010

The deployment of the Cuban Intelligence Services (CuIS) in Venezuela is so deep that they enjoy “direct access” to President Hugo Chávez and often provide information not shared with the local intelligence services, as indicated by cables sent from the U.S. Embassy in Caracas to the State Department, reports El País, in its review of Sunday’s Wikileaks [...]

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Nothing more than a paid traitor

November 10, 2010

Robert Baer, author of See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA’s War on Terrorism and a retired case officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, has an excellent and telling piece in Foreign Policy on CIA turncoat Philip Agee, Havana’s man in Havana: The simple truth is that Agee was [...]

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NYU gets Agee’s private papers

November 6, 2010

via Washington Post: The private papers of Philip Agee, the disaffected CIA operative whose unauthorized publication of agency secrets 35 years ago was arguably more damaging than anything WikiLeaks has produced, have been obtained by New York University, which plans to make them public next spring. Agee, who worked undercover in Latin America from 1960 to [...]

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