Cuban intelligence

Congressional report omits Cuba in drug trafficking

August 17, 2011

The U.S. Congressional Research Service’s 41-page report, “Latin America and the Caribbean: Illicit Drug Trafficking and U.S. Counterdrug Programs,” was released in mid-May of this year. Glaringly omitted from this report is the Cuban government’s complicity in drug trafficking. Cuban intelligence assists traffickers with drug routes. Per the report: Drug trafficking is viewed as a primary threat [...]

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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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Double agent relates experiences in a new book (Updated)

July 20, 2010

The man behind the operation that broke up the most important organization involved in falsified documents in the United States was a double-agent who worked for Cuba and the United States. His codename was Lázaro. In statements to EFE, Lázaro (whose real name is Robert Kelly) described the principal goal of “Tag Operation,” which was [...]

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Cuban intelligence nexus with Mexican narcos

June 5, 2010

The detention of Gregorio “Greg” Sánchez Martínez (a leftist candidate for the Quintana Roo state governorship in Mexico) for money laundering and trafficking in illegal immigrants has exposed the nexus between Cuban intelligence and Mexican narcotraffickers, reports SIPSE. El Financiero cites José Antonio Pérez Stuart, a columnist and expert on intelligence matters, who believes that the objective [...]

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Cuba’s designs on Latin America

May 24, 2010

Jerry Bremer, C.E.O. of Criminal Justice International Associates (a global risk mitigation firm headquartered in Miami, Florida) asks in his piece, “Cuba’s Agenda in Latin America Remains Clearly Nebulous,” via Mexidata.info,  whether Cuba is a conventional military threat to anyone, which perhaps they are not, however. In the intelligence sphere, especially in Latin America, they [...]

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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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