China-Russia war games confirmed

Beijing has not revealed the exact nature of the exercises, other to say that they would focus on 'signal communication'

HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- Beijing has denied speculation that joint Chinese-Russian wargames set for next month are aimed at a third country.

Russia, China operate signals intelligence facilities in Cuba--targeting a third country

A Russian defector has stated that Castro supplied critical intelligence on U.S. military activities to Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War – information gained through his Soviet-built, Russian-financed signals intelligence facility in Lourdes, capable of eavesdropping on phone calls in Washington, and from spies in the U.S.

Until recently, the Russians paid Castro more than $200 million a year in much-needed hard currency for access to Lourdes. In a surprise move, though, Russian President Vladimir Putin suddenly withdrew his support and 1,500 advisers from Cuba in the wake of the attacks on Washington and New York.

Some analysts speculate that he feared Castro may have been using the Lourdes facility to collect intelligence later funneled to bin Laden, Iraq and other terror groups. Castro enjoyed having the Russian advisers there as a shield against a U.S. attack and was furious at their removal.

Unfortunately, China has now seemingly supplanted the Russians as Castro's primary electronic espionage partner and has built a new sophisticated signals intelligence complex in Bejucal, Cuba, operating under the cover of Radio China.

In addition to being used for espionage, these installations are reportedly part of a robust cyber-warfare capability Castro is developing. The FCC has stated they are capable of interfering with U.S. communications and air traffic control. The Chinese at one point also reportedly sent a message to New York air traffic control replicating U.S. military fight codes and falsely identifying themselves as U.S. military transport planes – a chilling foretaste of things to come.

I agree with the Chief of Mossad when he addressed Nato last month in Brussels. He said WWIII started 09-11-02. Anyway, the timing of this is interesting considering the flood of articles lately about The US soon attack on Iraq. Here's a tid bit. Maybe they are going to test their signal communications using these new toys...

Secret Russian military satellites launched

BY STEPHEN CLARK

SPACEFLIGHT NOW

Posted: July 8, 2002

Russia launched a pair of classified military satellites into Earth orbit Monday aboard a Kosmos-3M rocket.

The Russian booster lifted off at 0636 GMT (2:36 a.m. EDT) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.

The secret cargo consisting of two spacecraft -- dubbed Kosmos 2390 and Kosmos 2391 -- were placed into an orbit of approximately 1465 by 1505 km, inclined 82.5 degrees, according to Western space watchers.

Experts aren't exactly sure what the satellites will be used for since their orbit is different than past military craft launched by Kosmos-3M rockets.

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