IT

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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Military leadership counterparts profiled

March 19, 2009

A recent flurry of activities from the Russian Federation, its armed forces and Cuba, i.e. Russian strategic bombers possibly using Cuban airfields and the possible reactivation of the Lourdes SIGINT facility, leads to a further inquiry on the Cuban military leadership

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Shake-up: top ministers replaced (Updated)

March 2, 2009

Via AP: Cuba abruptly replaced some of its most powerful and visible officials on Monday, including Vice President Carlos Lage and Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque. The surprise shakeup, involving about 10 top officials, was announced at the end of the midday newscast by Cuba’s supreme governing body, the Council of State. Among others replaced [...]

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Cuba and Russia to Restore Communications Relations

December 10, 2007

Via Russia IC: Russia and Cuba are to share their experience and knowledge in IT technologies. Today the Russian and Cuban Ministers of Information technologies and Communication have discussed the memorandum of partnership, which is nearly ready to sign. The sides have worked out the issues of trade-economic and scientific cooperation. Russia and Cuba are [...]

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