Cuban intelligence agents

3,000 Cuban intelligence experts in Venezuela

July 20, 2011

Today’s The Wall Street Journal explores the consequences of Cuba’s deep penetration in Venezuela’s internal politics: During his tenure, Mr. Chávez has tried to indoctrinate the Venezuelan military, bringing on thousands of advisers to replicate Cuban military doctrine, and to deal with security and intelligence issues. Cuban officers are deeply involved in intelligence and security matters in Venezuela, from [...]

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Detained US contractor’s wife visits him

September 24, 2010

Judy Gross, the wife of American contractor Alan Gross detained in communist Cuba on suspicion of espionage, was allowed to visit her husband last month in the first movement in a case that is complicating U.S.-Cuba relations. There has been speculation, denied by Washington, that the two governments might consider swapping Gross for five Cuban intelligence [...]

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Quotable

August 21, 2010

“Cuban intelligence agents also are spying on U.S. operations and intentions around the world, and the Cuban spies are working with “a number of U.S. adversaries and competitors.” —Retired Admiral Dennis C. Blair (former U.S. Director of National Intelligence) during his annual threat briefing before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in February, 2010.

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Memories of a Cuban Soldier

March 30, 2010

A senior National Clandestine Service officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) using the nome de plume of Juan wrote a review (published last September in the CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence periodical Studies in Intelligence) of the book Memorias de un Soldado Cubano: Vida y Muerte de la Revolución [Memories of a Cuban [...]

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Cuban intelligence involved in Chavez’s purge

February 17, 2010

Via New York Times: The purge has revealed a power struggle at the highest levels of government, leading to the fall of some of Mr. Chávez’s military comrades and reports of secret dossiers on businessmen compiled here by intelligence agents from Cuba, Venezuela’s top ally. At a time when Mr. Chávez struggles with public ire [...]

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