Posted on 06/08/2023 4:29:14 AM PDT by NautiNurse
WORLD NEWS:
AUGUST 13, 2015, UPDATED 8 YEARS AGO
Decades of skullduggery on both sides at U.S. embassy in Cuba
By Daniel Trotta
5 MIN READ
HAVANA (Reuters) - The seven-story building on Havana’s famed “Malecon” seafront has for decades been a flashpoint in the Cold War’s most enduring rivalry.
Russia ‘to reopen Lourdes spy base in Cuba’
Published: 16 July 2014!:
During the Cold War it was said to be the biggest Soviet overseas listening post.
Russia has made a deal with Cuba to reopen an electronic listening post on the Caribbean island that was used by the Soviets to spy on the US during the Cold War, Russian officials say.
The Lourdes base near Havana lies 250km (150 miles) from the US coast.
The agreement with Cuba came during a visit to the Communist-run island by Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, the Kommersant newspaper says.
Mr Putin closed the base in 2001, citing concerns over its cost.
A Russian security source quoted by Reuters news agency confirmed the Kommersant report, saying “a framework agreement has been agreed”.
Russia-US relations have plummeted over the Ukraine conflict and Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
During his visit to Cuba last Friday Mr Putin agreed to write off 90% of Cuba’s $32bn (£19bn) Soviet-era debt, Kommersant reported.
The Lourdes base began operations in 1967 and provided intelligence for Soviet state security bodies. It also handled secret communications for the Soviet navy.
In Soviet times some 3,000 specialists worked there, then in the 1990s Russia reduced the staff by about half. Kommersant says staffing on that level would not be required now, because of improvements in technology.
When Russia shut the base in 2001 the annual cost - the rent paid to Cuba - was $200m.
i’ve seen this movie before...
Thanks much for your supplemental details!
Shhhhhhhh, it’s a secret.
The white house denies this, so that means the base has been up and running for years.
Or Brandon sent $$$$ to fund the China spy facility.
I was in and out of Gitmo for a chunk of the 1960’s.
Most of the Cubans still left in Cuba are old fashioned, hard nose commies, who hate us 24/7.
The good Cubans were killed or imprisoned in the 1960’s/70’s, and the survivors came here
It is hard to grasp that with Fidel and his old guard gone that Cuba hasn’t managed to break into capitalism in the 21st century.
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