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Cold War Shortwave

January 12, 2012
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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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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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Fiber-optic cable linking Cuba to Venezuela and Jamaica

October 9, 2010

A $70 million undersea fiber-optic cable that will link Cuba with Venezuela and Jamaica is due to start operating in July 2011. The main cable will link the northern Venezuelan city of La Guaira with the southeastern Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba – a distance of 1,552 kilometers (965 miles) – and have a [...]

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Former senior US military officers urge Cuba policy change

September 15, 2010

Former senior officers of the United States Armed Forces have sent a letter to President Obama urging him “to repeal the full travel ban on all Americans and engage the Cuban government in dialogue on key bi-lateral security issues,” reports The Havana Note (a blog by the public policy institute and think tank, New America Foundation.) General James T. [...]

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