CuIS

Chávez’s health keeps Castro brothers awake

August 6, 2011

“Chávez’s cancer has been terrible news for Fidel Castro. Now, Havana tries to control a Venezuela, where Chávez could die. Such a scenario keeps them awake. The primary task of Cuban services, which are very clever for that matter, and their best strategists, in the event of Chávez passing away, is preventing that endless source [...]

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Intro to Cuban Intel

July 19, 2011

The Virginia-based Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies (CI CENTRE) is offering a one-day introductory counterintelligence course on “one of the most effective and least known of the Communist intelligence organizations: the Cuban Directorate of Intelligence (DI) of the Ministry of Interior.” The course covers the “qualifications, selection process, and training of Cuban intelligence officers and [...]

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Cuban intelligence freely operates in Venezuela

November 30, 2010

The deployment of the Cuban Intelligence Services (CuIS) in Venezuela is so deep that they enjoy “direct access” to President Hugo Chávez and often provide information not shared with the local intelligence services, as indicated by cables sent from the U.S. Embassy in Caracas to the State Department, reports El País, in its review of Sunday’s Wikileaks [...]

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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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