DIA

Future real-property system in Cuba

November 9, 2010

Geoffrey Demarest, an analyst at the U.S. Army’s Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO)1, wrote the book Property & Peace: Insurgency, Strategy and the Statute of Frauds, which argues the quality of foreign real-property systems be made a priority issue in US diplomatic, military and intelligence thinking and strategy. Demarest states, “The United States and other Western countries [...]

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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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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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CIA director and Cuban soap operas

July 27, 2009

Last September, Gen. Michael Hayden (Director, Central Intelligence Agency) addressed the ODNI Open Source Conference in Washington, D.C. about the importance of open source intelligence collection. General Hayden made an interesting anecdote (as follows) about his visit to a Key West open source facility wherein he watched a Cuban program and observed what analysts were [...]

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Cuban Intel: Old Guard

December 29, 2007

Chris Simmons, a career counterintelligence officer for the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and expert in Cuban intelligence, wrote and op-ed published in the Miami Herald on the head of Cuba’s Interests Section (photo above), who was a former intelligence officer that might still be active. Recent media accounts have heralded Havana’s selection of Jorge [...]

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