Cuban intelligence service

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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Cuban intelligence poses serious threat

October 27, 2010

I came across this keen quote, while researching for a paper proposal, from Stéphane Lefebvre in his journal article “Cuban Intelligence Activities Directed at the United States, 1959-2007,” published in the Fall 2009 issue of International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. “The threat posed by Cuban intelligence agencies is to be taken seriously…Until there is [...]

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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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Academic with alleged ties to CuIS in Havana

August 31, 2010

Julia Sweig, the Council on Foreign Relations resident Cuba expert, accompanied Fidel Castro yesterday to the National Aquarium along with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic magazine and Adela Dworin, president of the Jewish Community of Cuba. In October 2008, Cuban spy hunter Lt. Col. Chris Simmons of the Cuban Intelligence Research Center appeared on journalist Oscar Haza‘s [...]

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Criminal activity funding operations

June 25, 2010

Stratfor analytical article on insurgent/terrorist groups using criminal activity to fund its operations.  A reference is made within the piece to the Cuban Intelligence Service (CuIS): For the militant group, the addition of a state sponsor can provide an array of modern weaponry and a great deal of useful training. For example, the FIM-92 Stinger missiles [...]

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Cuban intelligence’s flawed communication methods

June 1, 2010

Dirk Rijmenants of the Cipher Machines and Cryptology website authored a paper on the flaws attributed to communication methods used by the Cuban Intelligence Service (CuIS) with its agents (e.g. Ana Belen Montes, Carlos and Elsa Alvarez, and Walter Kendall Myers) in operations against the United States as evidenced in FBI and U.S. District Courts’ documents: One common link [...]

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