Intelligence

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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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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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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Smear campaign?

August 2, 2008

The Cuba Triangle counters the accusations of agents of influence for Cuba made by Lt. Col. Chris Simmons during his July 31st TV interview on A Mano Limpia.

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Reactivating Lourdes

July 23, 2008

A loud call is being voiced to reactivating the Lourdes SIGINT station in Cuba. “Cuba is a unique place to gather intelligence on the United States. I believe that the reopening of this station is both possible and necessary amid the threat that the Americans are creating for Russia,” –Alexander Pikayev, head of the disarmament [...]

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