state security

State security minister visits China

August 24, 2010

Army Corps General Abelardo Colomé Ibarra, Cuban Minister of the Interior (State Security), is visiting Beijing after being invited by the Chinese Communist government to celebrate 50 years of Chinese-Cuban diplomatic ties. Colomé Ibarra was in Vietnam last week to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security. His Chinese trip concludes September 2. [PL] [...]

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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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