Open Source Center

Spooks’ world news database

March 7, 2011

The Wall Street Journal reports on an invaluable research database, World News Connection (WNC), which delivers the news online from 1,750 newspapers, broadcasts and blogs in 130 countries. WNC is an online offering from the CIA’s Open Source Center (OSC) (formerly the Foreign Broadcast Information Service – FBIS).

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Cuban media coverage of the military

March 19, 2010

The Federation of American Scientists has obtained a copy of an Open Source Center six-page report from late February 2010 on Cuban media coverage of the military, which has been positive. OSC assesses: President Raul Castro was atypically visible and engaged during a Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) exercise in late 2009, but more commonly he presents [...]

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Journalist appointed new ambassador to Venezuela

August 13, 2009

Via Universal (Venezuela): The Cuban government appointed journalist Rogelio Polanco as the new ambassador to Venezuela, announced in an official statement. The position was occupied during 15 years by sociologist Germán Sánchez. Polanco, the editor of newspaper Juventud Rebelde, one of the two state-run nationwide newspapers, “has accomplished important missions linked to Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution” [...]

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