Key West

Deepwater drilling project in Cuban waters

July 2, 2010

Spanish oil company Repsol YPF SA, said it plans to drill off Cuba, about 60 miles south of Key West, Florida, early next year. If successful, this would likely kick off a spate of exploration. Only one deepwater well has been drilled in Cuban waters, by Repsol in 2004. The effort found oil but not [...]

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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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