Cuban intelligence operatives

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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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 spy-hunter clarifies errors

September 17, 2009

Babalu Blog has posted the following letter written by Cuban spy-hunter, Lt. Col. Chris Simmons (U.S. Army Reserve, Counterintelligence), to the Miami Herald clarifying factual errors in an article about Alberto Coll, whom Simmons has called an agent of influence for the Cuban government.  (See CPD’s prior posts here and here for background.) Too Little, [...]

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Former spook appointed vice-president (Updated)

October 15, 2008

According to a brief note in Granma, Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, Cuba’s Minister Without Portfolio, has been appointed Vice-President of the Council of Ministers and will oversee International Commerce, Foreign Investments, and Economic Collaboration ministries as well as other entities within the Central Administration of State. Cabrisas Ruiz (a septuagenarian) was part of the General Intelligence [...]

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Smear campaign?

August 2, 2008

The Cuba Triangle counters the accusations of agents of influence for Cuba made by Lt. Col. Chris Simmons during his July 31st TV interview on A Mano Limpia.

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Cuban intelligence warns of possible plot against Chavez

June 27, 2008

Spanish daily Diario Exterior reports: The June 17 encounter between Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, Castro advised Chavez to take care of himself from the Ecuadorean government, which is seeking an alliance with the United States. El Universal, a Venezuelan daily, assures that Fidel Castro handed Chavez a report from Cuban Intelligence (G2) alerting to [...]

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