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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/384091.html
“CUBAN INTELLIGENCE
Cuba said to broaden its spying against U.S.”
SNIPPET: “Cuba is extending its intelligence reach to track U.S. military activities, a former U.S. intelligence officer says.”
Posted on Fri, Jan. 18, 2008
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BY PABLO BACHELET
pbachelet@MiamiHerald.com
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON — Cuba has extended its intelligence-gathering capabilities beyond the United States and Latin America to places where vital U.S. interests are at stake — like Iran, Turkey, India and Pakistan — a former top U.S. counterintelligence official told lawmakers Thursday.
Chris Simmons, a former counterintelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, said a series of intelligence setbacks for Cuba between 1995 and 2003 — such as the dismantling of a network of spies in Miami, the closure of an intellingece center in Canada and the arrest of former DIA Cuba analyst Ana Montes in 2001 — forced Cuba to tighten its intelligence operations.
Today Cuba puts trusted top intelligence operatives in charge of key embassy postings and operates more with allies like Iran and Venezuela, Simmons said in a briefing organized by Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
Cuba’s intelligence apparatus, considered one of the world’s most formidable, numbers more than 11,500 agents, he said, of whom about 3,500 are focused on international operations.”
Thank you, Cindy. Not a good development.