Lt. Col. Chris Simmons

Academic with alleged ties to CuIS in Havana

August 31, 2010

Julia Sweig, the Council on Foreign Relations resident Cuba expert, accompanied Fidel Castro yesterday to the National Aquarium along with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic magazine and Adela Dworin, president of the Jewish Community of Cuba. In October 2008, Cuban spy hunter Lt. Col. Chris Simmons of the Cuban Intelligence Research Center appeared on journalist Oscar Haza‘s [...]

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Cuban spy-hunter clarifies errors

September 17, 2009

Babalu Blog has posted the following letter written by Cuban spy-hunter, Lt. Col. Chris Simmons (U.S. Army Reserve, Counterintelligence), to the Miami Herald clarifying factual errors in an article about Alberto Coll, whom Simmons has called an agent of influence for the Cuban government.  (See CPD’s prior posts here and here for background.) Too Little, [...]

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Suit filed against counterintel officer

December 4, 2008

A defamation suit has been filed against Lt. Col. Chris Simmons (US Army Reserve Counterintelligence Officer) by Silvia Wilhelm (executive director of Puentes Cubanos, Inc. and Cuban American Commission for Family Rights), reports Cuaderno de Cuba. On October 8, Simmons accused Wilhem as being an alleged agent of the Cuban Intelligence Service on A Mano [...]

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Cuban spies revealed…cont.

October 8, 2008

Lt. Col. Chris Simmons appeared on Oscar Haza‘s program A Mano Limpia in Miami tonight. Simmons continued from where he left off in a previous program with Haza to expose individuals allegedly associated with Cuban intelligence and he also discussed the state of Havana’s intelligence operations (a restructured General Directorate of Intelligence – DGI). The [...]

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