Directorate of Intelligence (DI)

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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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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Piecing together the Dark Legacy

January 24, 2008

Wired Magazine has published an article that addresses the painstakingly process of reconstructing torn surveillance files by hand of the Stasi (East Germany’s State Security Service), which had an influence over its tropical version–Cuba’s Ministry of Interior (MININT). Will the MININT follow suit in tearing up files once the Castro regime is no longer in [...]

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Iran-Cuba Nexus

November 5, 2007

Chris Simmons, a career counterintelligence officer and an expert on Cuban intelligence has written the following article on the Iran-Cuba nexus published in the Miami Herald: Scott Carmichael, a senior counterintelligence officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency, recently confirmed continued intelligence sharing between Iran and Cuba. Additionally, Israeli sources report that during last year’s meeting [...]

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