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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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Embargo, Cooperation, Agreement

November 6, 2007

Via AP: Cuba pledged to sign nearly $450 million in contracts with hundreds of U.S. and international firms, kicking off the island’s largest annual trade event despite decades of economic sanctions. Less than two weeks after President Bush asked lawmakers to renew a 45-year U.S. economic embargo against the Communist-run island, Cuban officials touted their [...]

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