FBI Indictment details of Cuba's spy Marta Rita Velazquez

Along the Malecón/ Tracey Eaton

The U.S. government's case against Marta Rita Velázquez is a tale of intrigue and clandestine travel, false passports and secret meetings.
Prosecutors say Velázquez introduced Ana Belén Montes to Cuban agents in 1984 and later helped Montes land a job with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.
Montes went on to become one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history, authorities say. She was arrested in 2001, convicted in 2002 and sent to prison.
In 2003, a grand jury charged Velázquez with one count of conspiracy to commit espionage. The indictment was filed on Feb. 5, 2004, but remained under court seal until Thursday. It's unclear why U.S. authorities unsealed it now, more than nine years after the indictment.
Velázquez is thought to be living in Stockholm, Sweden. I called what I believe to be her mobile phone number. I heard a message in a language I do not understand, and left a message.
A Swedish reporter also called Velázquez's number and said that a woman answered, irritated, and said, "What? Who is it? Oh, OK," and then hung up.
The Swedish TT news agency reported that Velázquez is now a Swedish citizen.
The Washington Post reported that U.S. authorities in December 2011 told Velázquez "she was under suspicion."
The U.S. extradition treaty with Sweden does not include espionage in crimes requiring extradition. See treaty. (H/T Phil Peters).

Sweden's Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Local, an English-language newspaper in Sweden, reported Friday that Velázquez's husband was an official in Sweden's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The paper did not name the husband, but said:

The acts of espionage were carried out while the two were married.
Sweden's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Charlotta Ozaki Macías confirmed that the ministry had been aware of the case for years.
"The Foreign Ministry official with a connection to the case is not guilty of criminal activity," she told the TT news agency.
The Swedish man remains in service at the ministry.
Sweden has not received any requests to extradite the woman to the US, according to Per Claréus, press secretary to Justice Minister Beatrice Ask.
He told TT that if the US was to send an extradition request, it would be refused.

The indictment (H/T Capitol Hill Cubans) alleges that Velázquez carried out the following overt acts:

• September 1983: Traveled secretly to Mexico City, intending to meet Cuban agents, but they evidently did not show up.
• Spring of 1984: Took Montes to dinner and told her she "had friends who could help Montes in Montes' expressed wish to assist the people of Nicaragua."
• July 31, 1984: Wrote Montes a letter stating, "It has been a great satisfaction for me to have had you as a friend and comrade (compañera) during this time we've spent as students. I hope our relationship continues outside the academic sphere."
• Fall of 1984: Invited Montes to travel with her from Washington, D.C., to New York "ostensibly to meet a friend who could provide Montes with an opportunity to assist the Nicaraguan people."
• Dec. 16, 1984: Went with Montes by train to New York and met with a Cuban intelligence official who worked at the Cuban Mission to the United Nations and was identified in the indictment only as "M." Velázquez later told Montes that "M" told Velázquez that Montes "would be one of the best."
• Early 1985: Gave Montes and typewriter and instructed her to write a detailed biography, including a description of the Justice Department job she had at the time. The two again traveled to New York to meet with "M."
• March 1985: Traveled with Montes to Spain on a purported vacation. Met with a Cuban man who supplied false passports. Traveled clandestinely from Madrid to Prague using the false passports. Met with two Cuban men, including an agent referred to only as "F." Picked up clothes at an apartment, then traveled with Montes and "F" to Cuba.



U.S.: Velázquez wanted to practice taking a lie detector test.

• April 1985: Met with a Cuban agent referred to only as "A." The agent explained that no one met her in Mexico City in 1983 because Mexican authorities on Sept. 1, 1983, had arrested, detained and interrogated two Cuban officials who had been trying to meet with Cuban exiles from Miami. Velázquez and Montes "received Cuban Intelligence Service training, including instruction in receiving encrypted High Frequency radio broadcast messages of the Cuban Intelligence Service." Velázquez asked Cuban agents to give them "practice" polygraph exams "so that they would be able to pass polygraphs they might have to take in connection with future United States government employment." Cuban agents gave Velázquez a code name: Barbara. Velázquez and Montes traveled back to Spain, via Prague, posing for a photo in Madrid so they'd have evidence of their "vacation."
• 1988: "Provoked a dispute with Montes and publicly broke off their relationship."
• June 15, 1992: "Traveled to Panama to clandestinely meet with Cuban Intelligence Service officers and/or agents."
• Mid-1996: "Received encryption/decryption software from the Cuban Intelligence Service, and used it for her clandestine communications with the Cuban Intelligence Service."
• June 2002: Velázquez quit from her U.S. government job after Montes pled guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage and agreed to cooperate with law enforcement. Since then, Velázquez has lived continuously outside the U.S.

Federal Medical Center, Carswell

FBI agents arrested Montes on Sept. 21, 2001.  (See FBI affidavit explaining case against her). She pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage and is now serving a prison term at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, a Texas facility that provides specialized medical and mental health services to female inmates. Her scheduled release date is July 1, 2023.
Velázquez, like Montes, is from Puerto Rico. She was born in the town of Ponce and grew up in the United States. Her degrees include:

• A bachelor's degree in political science and Latin American studies from Princeton University.
• A law degree from Georgetown University.
• A master's degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, or SAIS.

The Daily Princetonian reported that Velázquez helped organize the Third World Center Cultural Festival at the school. The Dec. 13, 1976, issue of the Princetonian quoted her as saying:

We are all part of oppressed nationalities throughout the world. Here at the university, which is very conservative and white-male-oriented, if we can put together a performance as successful as this one was, it's almost unbelievable.

Velázquez: "We are all...oppressed..."

While at SAIS from 1982 to 1983, Velázquez was a legal intern at the U.S. Agency for International Development. The indictment says she:

• Worked for the Department of Transportation from 1984 to March 1989, and had a SECRET security clearance. Unauthorized release of SECRET information could reasonably be expected to cause "serious" damage.
• Became an attorney adviser for USAID in March 1989, and had a TOP SECRET security clearance. Unauthorized release of TOP SECRET information could reasonably be expected to cause "grave" damage. Her responsibilities at USAID included Central America.
• Was posted at the U.S. Embassy in Managua from June 1990 to September 1994.
• Worked for USAID in Washington from September 1994 to May 1998.
• Was on leave without pay from May 1998 to June 2000 and lived with her husband in Sweden.
• Returned to USAID in June 2000 and worked at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City. She was director of the agency's Regional Office of Trade and Economic Analysis.
• Left USAID in June 2002, but continued to live in Guatemala.

The indictment says Velázquez began spying for Cuba as early as 1983. It states:

From at least in or about 1983 and continuing until the present, within the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the defendant, Marta Rita Velázquez, also known as Marta Rita Kviele, also known as "Barbara", unlawfully combined, conspired, confederated, and agreed together with persons known and unknown to the Grand Jury, to communicate, deliver and transmit, directly and indirectly, to the government of the Republic of Cuba and to representatives, officers, agents and employees thereof, documents, writings, and information relating to the national defense, with the intent and reason to believe that they would be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of the Republic of Cuba, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 794(a).

Montes, right, at a party in Madrid. Photo: Washington Post

The indictment also gives background information about the Cuban Intelligence Service and explains the accusations against Montes. It states:

The Cuban Intelligence Service has long had an aggressive program aimed at spotting and assessing persons within the United States academic community who may be suitable for recruitment to serve a variety of roles on behalf of Cuba's interests. The most important role is that of agent - that is, a person who is not an employee of a hostile intelligence service (such as the Cuban Intelligence Service) but who is aware that he or she is working for that service and who is willing to engage in clandestine operational activity, including intelligence gathering, for that service.

An agent-in-place is a recruited agent who occupies a position in which he or she has authorize access to current intelligence information, and who acts under the direction of a hostile intelligence service so as to obtain such information for that intelligence service. In order to protect recruited agents, and maintain operational security, intelligence services often limit discernible contact between agents; this practice is called compartmentalization.

The Cuban Mission to the United Nations in New York City, and the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, D.C., are the principal establishments to which Cuban government officials having diplomatic immunity - including Cuban Intelligence Service officers - are assigned in the United States.

FBI: Belén used this "cheat sheet" to help her encrypt and decrypt messages.

The Cuban Intelligence Service often communicates clandestinely with its officers and agents operating outside Cuba by broadcasting encrypted radio messages at certain high frequencies; such clandestine communications were used by Ana Belén Montes and by some of the defendants convicted in June 2001 in the Southern District of Florida, in the case of United States v. Gerardo Hernandez, et al., 98-721-CR-Lenard, of committing espionage on behalf of Cuba and acting as unregistered agents of Cuba.

Ana Belén Montes is a United States citizen who was employed by the United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DAI) in Washington, D.C., as an intelligence analyst from September 1985 until September 2001; beginning in 1992, she specialized in Cuban matters. Between 1982 and 1984, Montes had been a part-time graduate student at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., together with defendant Velázquez. On September 21, 2001, Montes was arrested in the District of Columbia on charges of committing espionage against the United States on behalf of Cuba, in United States v. Ana Belén Montes, Criminal No. 02-131 (RMU). In a public proceeding on March 19, 2002, she pled guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage and she stated that she agreed to cooperate with the United States government in its continuing investigation into Cuban espionage activities against the United States.

Ana Belén Montes receives an award. Photo: DIA

On April 18, the Washington Post published a fascinating story about Montes. Jim Popkin, a former NBC News reporter and senior investigative producer, wrote the piece. It was entitled, "Ana Montes did much harm spying for Cuba. Chances are, you haven’t heard of her." The story said:

Like Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen before her, Ana Montes blindsided the intelligence community with brazen acts of treason. By day, she was a buttoned-down GS-14 in a Defense Intelligence Agency cubicle. By night, she was on the clock for Fidel Castro, listening to coded messages over shortwave radio, passing encrypted files to handlers in crowded restaurants and slipping undetected into Cuba wearing a wig and clutching a phony passport.
Montes spied for 17 years, patiently, methodically. She passed along so many secrets about her colleagues — and the advanced eavesdropping platforms that American spooks had covertly installed in Cuba — that intelligence experts consider her among the most harmful spies in recent memory.

[Photos] Cuba's spy Marta Rita Velazquez at home in Stockholm?

Along the Malecón/ Tracey Eaton

Possible residence of Marta Rita Velazquez, 55, accused Thursday of conspiracy to commit espionage. See FBI press release.

Denuncian que espías cubanos se infiltran en grupo académico en EEUU

ElNuevoHerald.com

Juan O. Tamayo

La negativa de visas por parte de Estados Unidos a tres cubanos invitados a un congreso académico ha destapado una protesta sorprendente, tanto en contra de Washington como de los tres académicos estadounidenses pro-Castro que supuestamente controlan la agenda sobre Cuba de la conferencia y los espías de La Habana que asisten a la misma.
La influencia de Cuba sobre la Asociación de Estudios Latino Americanos (LASA) se ha rumorado por largo tiempo entre los académicos estadounidenses. Pocos se han quejado públicamente, por miedo a que La Habana les prohíba la entrada o les niegue acceso a materiales de investigación.
Pero ahora las quejas se han hecho públicas.
“La sección de Cuba de LASA ha caído en manos de partidarios de la revolución, y ha sido completamente politizada”, dijo Ted Henken, profesor de Estudios Latinoamericanos de Baruch College en Nueva York.
“Los que hemos estado en LASA también sabemos que dentro de la ‘delegación’ cubana hay siempre tantos ‘policías’ como en Coppelia un sábado en la noche”, dijo el sociólogo cubano Haroldo Dilla, aludiendo a la famosa heladería de La Habana.
Evelyne Huber, presidenta de LASA, dijo que la sección de Cuba “está abierta a todos los miembros de LASA, y la misma LASA está abierta a todos los estudiosos y otros profesionales interesados en América Latina. No se excluye a nadie de la membresía en base a sus opiniones políticas”.
Las reuniones de la asociación están asimismo abiertas a todos los que se registren, añadió Huber, directora del departamento de Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad de Carolina del Norte. El website de LASA dice que la misma cuenta con más de 7,000 miembros en todo el mundo.
Los comentarios de Henken y Dilla fueron provocados por reportes de que el Departamento de Estado de EEUU ha negado visa, al menos por el momento, a tres cubanos invitados a asistir al congreso anual de LASA, del 29 de mayo al 1 de junio, en Washington.
Ellos han sido identificados como Elaine Díaz Rodríguez, reportera del periódico Granma y profesora de la Universidad de La Habana, y los jóvenes blogueros Isbel Díaz Torres y Dimitri Prieto Samsónov.
Se debería permitir la participación del trío en la conferencia de LASA ya que “se han caracterizado por sus posiciones críticas frente a aspectos específicos de la realidad cubana”, escribió Dilla en una columna publicada el 15 de abril en el website Diario de Cuba.
Henken, miembro de LASA que dirige además la Asociación para el Estudio de la Economía Cubana (ASCE), alegó que las negativas de visa son “una oportunidad perdida para que EEUU escuche voces críticas y auténticas desde dentro de Cuba”.
Pero, aunque la libertad académica y los intercambios siempre son deseables, alegaron ambos hombres, las relaciones académicas EEUU-Cuba están empañadas por una falta de reciprocidad, o por cosas peores.
Henken señaló que a Omar Everleny Pérez, un joven economista cubano que ha criticado algunas de las reformas económicas del gobernante Raúl Castro y a quienes había invitado a participar en un panel de LASA, su propia universidad no le permitirá viajar a Washington.
Y, aunque Baruch College envió a nueve estudiantes en enero a Cuba, La Habana nunca respondió la solicitud que hizo Henken para acompañarlos, agregó. “Nunca me dijeron que no, pero nunca me dijeron nada”, escribió Henken en un correo electrónico a El Nuevo Herald.
Dilla, quien ahora da clases en la República Dominicana, señaló que Cuba no permite a algunos académicos exiliados como él mismo que regresen a la isla a asistir a conferencias, publicar su trabajo en las revistas de la isla o enseñar en sus universidades.
Intervención
Una investigadora estadounidense que presentó un trabajo en la conferencia de ASCE en Miami el año pasado, admitió que la versión impresa de su trabajo no era tan crítica de La Habana como sus afirmaciones verbales porque ella temía que no la dejaran entrar más a Cuba.
“La sección de Cuba de LASA ha sido básicamente intervenida por los cubanos, el gobierno… y nosotros guardamos silencio para conseguir o seguir teniendo acceso a Cuba”, dijo la investigadora, quien pidió conservar el anonimato por las mismas razones.
Henken señaló que cuando LASA estaba a punto de quejarse públicamente de la negativa de visas de EEUU a invitados al congreso del año pasado, él consiguió que se incluyera una queja de que La Habana también había negado permiso a dos críticos para que asistieran: la bloguera Yoani Sánchez y el economista Oscar Espinosa Chepe.
“Los días de guardar silencio están contados”, añadió, porque una reforma de inmigración adoptada por Cuba en enero está facilitando a los cubanos salir de la isla. “Ahora la caja de Pandora ya está abierta. Los resultados son imposibles de controlar”.
Henken visitaba a menudo a Cuba con motivo de investigaciones académicas, pero después de que él entrevistó a varios blogueros en el 2011, incluyendo algunos que critican al gobierno, funcionarios de Seguridad del Estado lo pararon cuando regresaba a su casa y le dijeron: “Esta va a ser tu última vez”.
Aunque el proceso de Estados Unidos de entrega de visas para académicos “tiene sus problemas de politización, burocracia y arbitrariedad”, señaló, “la burla sistemática de la libertad académica y la libertad de movimiento” del gobierno cubano “es mucho más condenable”.
No ha habido indicios del tamaño de la delegación cubana al congreso de LASA el mes próximo. Pero en el 2003 la administración de Bush negó la visa a toda la misión cubana, que se alega constaba de 75 personas.
Dilla, quien asistió a dos conferencias de LASA antes de abandonar Cuba en el 2000, escribió que la asociación debería presionar al Departamento de Estado para que concediera visas, pero agregó que él quería “destacar un par de detalles”.
Agentes
Aunque académicos cubanos altamente respetados asisten a las conferencias de la LASA, señaló, las delegaciones cubanas siempre incluyen a oficiales de inteligencia y colaboradores.
“Algunos están en la nómina de Línea y A”, añadió, refiriéndose a la dirección de la sede de la Dirección de Inteligencia del Ministerio del Interior. “Otros son guardianes de los servicios ideológicos, unos en activo y otros retirados… Pero todos, y por encima de todo, son personas que desempeñan roles que tienen muy poco que ver con el libre debate académico”.
“Se les puede notar en cada congreso, chupando el presupuesto de LASA, coaccionando a los verdaderos académicos y convirtiendo al Task Force de Cuba en una enmarañada y opaca extensión del Departamento Ideológico del Partido Comunista de Cuba”, agregó.
Los cubanos que asisten a las conferencias de la LASA también se reúnen antes de viajar para casi dos semanas recibiendo instrucciones del Departamento Ideológico sobre temas tales como la economía o los derechos humanos, dijo Dilla a El Nuevo Herald en una entrevista telefónica el jueves.
El ex oficial de la inteligencia cubana Orlando Brito Pestana, quien desertó en el 2002 y vive ahora en el sur de la Florida, ha dicho que él asistió a una conferencia de LASA en Canadá alrededor de 1991 con acreditación del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Cuba.
Su trabajo, añadió, era detectar a los académicos pro-Castro que asistían a la conferencia y vigilar a los académicos cubanos que podrían estar planeando una deserción.

Read more here: http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2013/04/26/v-fullstory/1462836/espias-cubanos-se-infiltran-en.html#storylink=cpy

Acusan a exfuncionaria de EEUU de espiar para el gobierno cubano

martinoticias

Una exfuncionaria del gobierno estadounidense, la puertorriqueña Marta Rita Velázquez, fue acusada de haber espiado para el gobierno de Cuba, reveló este jueves el Departamento de Justicia, en un parte de prensa que aparece en su sitio digital y en el del Buro Federal de Investigaciones, FBI.

Velázquez, conocida también como "Marta Rita Kviele" y "Barbara", es acusada de haber pasado información de defensa estadounidense a La Habana y de haber reclutado a otros espías, según la acusación, que había permanecido en secreto por varios años hasta que fue hecha pública este jueves.

Las autoridades estadounidenses difundieron el jueves cargos criminales de asociación ilícita para espiar que habían formulado en 2004 contra una puertorriqueña acusada de ayudar a la inteligencia cubana a reclutar a una prominente espía actualmente en prisión.

La acusación contra Marta Rita Velásquez, de 55 años, conllevaría una cadena perpetua de ser hallada culpable. El Departamento de Justicia señaló en un comunicado que Velásquez, reside fuera de Estados Unidos desde 2002 y actualmente está radicada en Estocolmo, Suecia.

El subprocurador interino para la seguridad nacional John Carlin acusó a Velásquez de facilitar a la inteligencia cubana el reclutamiento de Ana Belén Montes, quien cumple 25 años de cárcel tras declararse culpable en 2002 de espiar durante los 16 años que trabajó para la oficina de inteligencia militar (DIA, por sus siglas en inglés).

Durante sus años en la DIA, Ana Belén Montes reveló las identidades de cuatro agentes encubiertos a autoridades cubanas y usaba una radio de onda corta para recibir órdenes.

En junio de 2002 Velázquez renunció a USAID, cuando comenzaron a aparecer reportes de prensa sobre la captura de Ana Belén Montes y su presunta cooperación con investigadores estadounidenses, y salió del país para no volver.

Velázquez puso en contacto a Montes con los servicios de inteligencia cubanos en 1984, cuando la llevó a Nueva York para una reunión con un agente de la isla comunista, que la acusación llama "M", quien se identificó como miembro de la misión de intereses cubanos en Estados Unidos.
   
Luego de que Montes fuera reclutada, Velázquez la acompañó en 1985 en un viaje clandestino a Cuba para que recibiera entrenamiento en espionaje. Para cubrir sus pasos, las dos mujeres usaron pasaportes falsos para ir desde Madrid a Praga, y de ahí a La Habana, reveló la acusación.
   
Velázquez trabajó unos años en el Departamento de Transporte, hasta que en 1989 entró a la agencia de desarrollo internacional (USAID) del Departamento de Estado, donde gozó de una amplia autorización para acceder a documentos clasificados.

Graduada en reconocidas universidades de Estados Unidos, ocupó cargos en las embajadas estadounidenses en Nicaragua y Guatemala. Desde 1979 hasta 1990 vivió en Washington, según la acusación, a la que tuvo acceso la AFP.
   
La espía recibía instrucciones de los servicios de inteligencia cubanos "a través de transmisiones de alta frecuencia encriptadas" y en contactos con otros agentes fuera de Estados Unidos, según el Departamento.

La orden de arresto contra Velazquez revelada el jueves fue emitida hace 9 años. Ella permanece fuera de Estados Unidos desde el 2002 y Washington no ha podido lograr su regreso. El tratado de extradición entre Estados Unidos y Suecia no permite la extradición por razones políticas, una categoría que incluye el espionaje. 

Murió el agente cubano “Nerón” que penetró la CIA por 10 años

Nicolás Sirgado [Archivo]

Cubadebate
Por el Coronel ® Nelson Domínguez Morera (NOEL)

En el día de ayer a la edad de 77 años dejó de existir el Agente de Juegos Operativos de la Seguridad del Estado de Cuba Nicolás Alberto Sirgado Ros quien se mantuvo, bajo el pseudónimo de NERÓN para esos órganos, durante más de 10 años penetrando y burlando a la Agencia Central de Inteligencia de los EE.UU en sus acciones de subversión contra Cuba, quien lo consideraba un hombre de su más entera y absoluta confianza.

A tal extremo fue así, que en el año 1976 la eminencia gris de varios gobiernos norteamericanos Henry Kissinger, desempeñándose en el de Gerald Ford como su Secretario de Estado, le obsequió, (en un tercer país, donde siempre era atendido para salvaguardarlo), como reconocimiento a los servicios prestados y la supuesta lealtad mantenida al imperio, un reloj pulsera autografiado por el reverso que actualmente se conserva en la Sala de la Gloria Combativa del Departamento de Seguridad del Estado en Villa Marista.

Nicolás Sirgado nació en La Habana, el 10 de septiembre del 1935. Se inicio en las tareas revolucionaras ocupando diferentes cargos de responsabilidad en el Ministerio de Obras Publicas (después Ministerio de la Construcción), Ministerio de la Industria Ligera y Cubatabaco desempeñándose en los cargos de Director y Delegado provincial, respectivamente. También trabajó con en el viceministerio de la Enseñanza Tecnológica. Los órganos del DSE aprovecharon una sanción que le fue impuesta en el MICONS, en Pinar del Rio, para crearle una adecuada fachada y línea de conducta tomando en cuenta que aparentemente había sido sancionado de forma injusta en ese Ministerio, por lo que fue orientado a presentarse como un resentido, algunos elementos de su tradición familiar también contribuyeron a ello.

NERÓN fue el único Agente de Juegos Operativos cuya trascendental labor secreta para la Seguridad Cubana, decidió revelar, evidenciándola personalmente y de manera pública el Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro el 15 de Octubre de 1976, durante el luctuoso acto homenaje a las victimas del sabotaje en pleno vuelo frente a las costas de Barbados del avión de Cubana de Aviación por los sicarios del criminal Posada Carriles acontecido días antes, el 6 de ese mismo mes.

El Comandante despachaba periódica y personalmente con la jefatura del Ministerio del Interior en aquél entonces, cada uno de los distintos juegos operativos que se desarrollaban contra la CIA, orientando la estrategia a seguir, por tanto decidió escoger este al que denominábamos en el argot profesional Caso “ZORRO”, el más importante de la época y de los que fueran revelados (aunque en nuestros días, a no dudarlo, quedarán otros). El Caso, iniciado en 1966 cuando el DSE planifico realizar un juego operativo con vistas a penetrar la CIA. A través del mismo, el agente Zafiro para la CIA y Noel (en aquel entonces) para el DSE logro penetrar también el Departamento de Estado de los EEUU, conociendo los planes que se proponían para la eliminación física de nuestros dirigentes y los intereses de información que tenían alrededor de la ayuda internacionalista de nuestro país.

Por la significación y trascendencia del juego operativo ZORRO con el enemigo en que NERÓN se desenvolvía, era atendido y encauzado directamente por altos jefes de la Seguridad del momento como los después Generales Fabián Escalante (Roberto) y Eladio Sánchez o Coroneles como Osmel, Pablito (Coronel Pedro Luis Castillo), Manuel Martínez Guzmán (el gordo Jorge) entre otros. Para garantizar la compartimentación no solo fue ese pseudónimo el que se le asignara, sino que de acuerdo al oficial que lo atendía transitó, antes por el de NOEL para la Seguridad Cubana y el Agente ZAFIRO para la CIA.

Avizoramos entonces la intención de Fidel y raudos acercamos a Nerón, al escenario geográfico donde se produciría la denuncia, con la finalidad de mostrarlo al público en caso de que el Comandante lo decidiera. El lugar escogido fue primeramente el apartamento del sótano del edificio donde residía este escribidor en Paseo número 126 esquina Calzada en el Vedado. Tal fue la premura generada siguiendo la transmisión televisiva, que poco después nos fuimos raudos hacia la Plaza y sin percatarnos, hasta dejamos abierta la puerta del viejo refrigerador que motivó se le quemara su vetusta máquina y solo la emoción vivida posteriormente, permitió que mi entonces esposa, Doris, también oficial de la C.I. mitigara sus recriminaciones al respecto.
Aquélla Plaza de la Revolución José Martí en la Habana en ese 15 de Octubre, vibraba de emoción, odio hacia el enemigo y hasta caudales de lágrimas se vertían, cuando erguido y trascendente, como siempre, el líder de la Revolución expuso:

“El reclutamiento de ciudadanos y el empleo del territorio de otros países para realizar actos de esa naturaleza, son métodos típicos de la CIA”.

“Al principio teníamos dudas si la CIA había organizado directamente el sabotaje o lo elaboró cuidadosamente a través de sus organizaciones de cobertura integradas por contrarrevolucionarios cubanos; ahora nos inclinamos decididamente por la primera tesis. La CIA tuvo una participación directa en la destrucción del avión de Cubana en Barbados”.

“Tenemos la sospecha de que el Gobierno de Estados Unidos no ha renunciado a tales prácticas. El 9 de octubre, solo tres días después del criminal sabotaje de Barbados, fue interceptado un mensaje enviado por la CIA a un agente suyo en La Habana. Dicho mensaje, trasmitido desde el centro principal de la CIA en Langley, Virginia, dice textualmente, entre otras cosas: “Favor informar primera oportunidad cualquier dato respecto asistencia Fidel ceremonia primer aniversario independencia de Angola día 11 de noviembre. Caso afirmativo, tratar de averiguar itinerario completo visita Fidel otros países mismo viaje”.

“Otra instrucción de fecha anterior dice así:”

“¿Cuál es la reacción oficial y particular sobre ataques de bombas contra oficinas cubanas en el extranjero? ¿Qué van a hacer para evitarlas y prevenirlas? ¿De quién se sospecha como responsables? ¿Habrá represalias?”

“Esperamos que el Gobierno de Estados Unidos no se atreva a negar la veracidad de estas instrucciones de la oficina central de la CIA y otras muchas que en flagrantes actos de espionaje ha cursado a la misma persona. Poseemos la clave, las cifras y todas las pruebas de la autenticidad de estas comunicaciones”.

“En este caso concreto, el supuesto agente reclutado por la CIA, desde el primer instante y durante 10 años ha mantenido al Gobierno de Cuba detalladamente informado de todos sus contactos con la misma, los equipos y las instrucciones recibidas. La CIA suponía que el agente había logrado colocar un microtrasmisor electrónico moderno, que le fuera entregado por esta, nada menos que en el despacho del compañero Osmany Cienfuegos, Secretario del Comité Ejecutivo del Consejo de Ministros. De ahí la seguridad con que presumía recibir, con la debida antelación, la información pertinente sobre cualquier viaje del Primer Ministro de Cuba( entonces era FIDEL) al extranjero”.

“En este caso concreto, el supuesto agente de la CIA, desde el primer momento y durante diez años ha mantenido al Gobierno de Cuba detalladamente informado de todos sus contactos con la misma, los equipos y las instrucciones recibidas…”

“Dada la importancia de este hecho y su valor esclarecedor sobre la conducta y las actividades de la CIA, hemos considerado la conveniencia de hacerlo público aunque ello implica el sacrificio de una fuente valiosa de información…”

Esto constituyó un resarcimiento, no solo para los familiares conmocionados por la irreparable pérdida sino para toda la inmensa multitud congregada en la Plaza que rugió de emoción y aplausos ante la vigorosa respuesta acaecida al enemigo imperialista con aquella imperecedera y presagiosa frase de Fidel también en aquel día: … “Cuando un pueblo enérgico y viril llora,..la injusticia tiembla”

Y efectivamente, la injusticia tembló y se hizo realidad, el imperialismo se estremeció hasta sus cimientos, la omnipoderosa CIA fue brutalmente burlada y vilipendiada por vez primera de manera pública y tan trascendental, aunque sin escarmiento, porque casi diez años después en Junio de 1989 otra vez quedaría en entredicho mundial con una nueva denuncia de nuestro país al evidenciar el trabajo de penetración de 27 Agentes dobles cubanos que también la penetraron hasta sus raíces, burlándose de su supuesta profesionalidad, eficiencia e inefabilidad, la que quedó registrada para la historia en el serial televisivo LA CIA CONTRA CUBA.

El trabajo anónimo y secreto que hombres como NERON (después ascendido al grado de Tte. Coronel como se muestra en los créditos de la serie televisiva de hoy, TRAS LA HUELLA) y los 27, presagiaron, que se ha mantenido continuidad histórica hasta nuestros días con las más recientes resultantes del enfrentamiento contra grupusculeros y otros aliados asalariados del enemigo, que han sido revelados y divulgados, lo que nos puede llevar a la conclusión de que muchos otros se mantienen y mantendrán, para garantía del proceso revolucionario de Cuba y otras partes del mundo, en estas importantes e incógnitas misiones.

Nota de Cubadebate: La trayectoria de Nicolás Sirgado como agente infiltrado sirvió para nutrir el argumento de la serie En silencio ha tenido que ser, transmitida por la televisión cubana en los años 80.

Shortwave Radio Broadcast to Deployed Cuban Spy – Recorded Late March 2013

cubaconfidential

Recomendaciones a los discursos de Maduro con tufo castrista

runrun.es

La Inteligencia cubana conoció primero a Maduro que a Chávez/ Exanalista de la DGI

Universo Increible

“Retired” Cuban Spy Pontificates on Cuban Support to Terrorism

cubaconfidential

By Chris Simmons

Cuba and the List of Countries That Promote Terrorism

By Jesús Arboleya Cervera [photo], appearing in Progreso Semanal/Weekly

HAVANA – Every year, the U.S. Department of State publishes a list of “countries that promote terrorism” that serves as a basis for Washington’s policy toward them. The list includes a set of sanctions established by Congress. Many are the questions that arise from this practice. In the first place, the very concept of “terrorism” has yet to be defined by the international organizations of justice and the United Nations, due to the political manipulation to which it is subjected.

In other words, the U.S. government describes as “terrorist” whoever it sees fit and omits others who might deserve the description but whose inclusion is inconvenient. For example, Afghanistan was invaded in 2002 at the start of the “world war against terrorism,” yet it doesn’t appear on the list. Many believe that the United States itself could be on the list, if the list were made up with rigor and fairness. In sum, more than a moral condemnation, the list of countries that promote terrorism is a boast of unilateral power, whose true importance is to announce where the shots are coming from.

Cuba has been included since 1982 because of its support for the revolutionary movements in Central America. It is revealing that it was precisely the administration of Ronald Reagan that took the initiative, while at the same time he was promoting a “low-intensity” war in the region that led to his condemnation in the International Court of Justice. Later, he was rebuked by Congress itself, due to the Iran-Contra scandal. Anyhow, even after those conflicts were over, Cuba remained on the grim list. Other excuses were used then, such as saying that Cuba sheltered fugitives of U.S. justice in the 1970s, gave refuge to members of the Basque group ETA, and “offered medical aid and political assistance” to combatants in the Colombian FARC.

Various international analysts, legal institutions and American politicians have for years refuted the legal pertinence of those arguments, so I’ll simply quote recent statements by Congressman Jim McGovern, in which he made clear that the abovementioned fugitives never committed terrorist acts and that the ETA members are in Cuba at the request of the Spanish government itself. As if that weren’t enough, Havana at present is the site for the peace talks between the Colombian guerrillas and the Colombian government, as it has been previously, throughout the years. {emphasis added]

The Congressman also said that, due to the state of relations between the two countries, there are no extradition accords that justify that complaint. I should add that, if negotiations to that effect were to begin (as the Cuban government once proposed), the list submitted by Cuba would include hundreds of people who have actually committed terrorist acts against Cuba, among them the notorious Luis Posada Carriles.

In truth, the inclusion of Cuba on the list of countries that promote terrorism cannot withstand any serious scrutiny. Years ago, due to the weight of reality, Cuba abandoned the practice of supporting armed revolutionary movements, whose denomination as “terrorists,” from a historic perspective, is as questionable as the American list.
But that’s not what the problem is about. Cuba’s inclusion on the list is an excuse to keep up the belligerence promoted by the American far right, especially the Cuban-American groups that serve as activists in Congress and various public opinion media in that country. Even if Raúl Castro became Mahatma Gandhi, those people would consider him a terrorist anyway.

The current debate has to do with the U.S. policy toward Cuba in the current circumstances. On one side are those who advocate maintaining the economic blockade and as many punitive measures as possible; on the other, those who posit that this policy is counterproductive for U.S. interests. It should be said that, except for some exceptions, the argument is the same: the efficacy of the method to achieve a “regime change” on the island. It has nothing to do with the truth.

For those who promote change, Cuba’s elimination from the list constitutes one of the most favorable targets. It is not based on reality; its arbitrariness affects the credibility of Washington’s policy against terrorism. Also, the decision, in whatever direction, rests entirely on the government, including the State Department, without involving the President directly. This does not mean that it will be a simple task. There will be a big hubbub from the conservatives; more than one functionary will be subjected to third-degree interrogations in Congress; some laws and appointments will be used as exchange currency to revert the decision. We shall then see if Obama’s administration is willing to face the storm in order to proceed with the change it proposes.

As a result, for more than its practical importance, inasmuch as the sanctions against the island exceed what’s established in the provisions, Cuba’s elimination from the list of countries that promote terrorism would serve as an indicator of this willingness, placing us on a stage that’s qualitatively different, where the adoption of more transcendental measures could be possible.

Some in Cuba believe – with reason – that what’s proposed is a bear hug. I think a hug is preferable to a bite. Besides, wishes don’t necessarily come true, and the simple fact of recognizing that Washington’s current policy toward Cuba is not viable shows us how times have changed and proves that our resistance was worthwhile, as phrased by Manuel Calviño, a famous Cuban psychologist on his television program.

Editor’s Note: Colonel Jesus Arboleya Cervera was identified by DGI Captain Jesus Perez Mendez after his defection in 1983. Arboleya, who served as a Second Secretary at the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in New York City before transferring to the Washington-based Cuban Interests Section, was also identified by convicted spy Carlos Alvarez. During his tour, Arboleya was the architect of the 1970’s US-Cuba normalization drive, which almost succeeded in 1977 following the formation of a group of prominent Cuban-Americans who called themselves the Committee of 75. Although headed by respectable Cuban-Americans, including two clerics and several businessmen, the Committee was DGI-inspired. According to Senate testimony of March 12, 1982, at the time, Arboleya may have been the longest serving DGI officer in the United States.

Since Colonel Arboleya promoted the subject of Havana’s role in peace talks (see “emphasis added” above), be sure to read about the following posts discussing the exploitation of peace talks by Cuba’s spies:

Cuba Dupes UPI; Uses Peace Talks to Hide Decades of Support to FARC Terrorists, December 14, 2012, http://cubaconfidential.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/cuba-dupes-upi-uses-peace-talks-to-hide-decades-of-support-to-farc-terrorists/

Cuba’s Terrorist Allies Open Peace Talks With Enraged Rhetoric, October 19, 2012, http://cubaconfidential.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/cubas-terrorist-allies-open-peace-talks-with-enraged-rhetoric/
Colombia Nears Possible FARC Peace Talks, August 28, 2012, http://cubaconfidential.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/colombia-nears-possible-farc-peace-talks/

(Vídeo) Castristas asaltan rueda de prensa de Berta Soler en Madrid

buena respuesta que debiera ocurrir donde quiera que asomen el ass.
-------------------------
Desde el sitio de joanantoniguerrero

Today in History: The Death of a Cuban Intelligence Legend

By Chris Simmons

www.theamericaspostes.com

March 11, 1998: Manuel Pineiro Losada died in a car accident. An early member of Cuban Intelligence and long-time chief of the America Department (DA), he resigned as DA head in February 1992. He was replaced by Jose Antonio Arbesu Fraga, one of the DA’s Vice Directors.

Pineiro remains the personification of Cuban intelligence. No other individual had such a defining role in defining, organizing, and providing strategic vision to Castro’s espionage institutions. Born in 1933 to an influential and affluent family, Pineiro the youngest of the siblings. Of average build, he stood 5’ 8’’ and weighed 190 pounds. Brown-eyed and sporting red hair, thick red eyebrows, freckles and a red beard, he received the nickname “Barbaroja” (Redbeard).

jrisquet.blogspot.com

In Havana, Pineiro attended the Hermanos Maristas Elementary School and then the Matanzas Institute. He attended college in the United States, enrolling in Columbia University in 1953. There he studied Business Administration. In New York, he met a doctor’s daughter named Lorna Nell Burdsall. She was a professional ballerina and member of the Communist Party. The two fell in love and married on June 10, 1955. Pineiro and his wife left the US and settled in Cuba.

www.barrigaverde.net

Pineiro joined the July 26 Movement at the end of 1956. He initially served in the underground, supporting efforts in Matanzas and then Havana. In July 1957, he was transferred to the Oriente and served under Efigenio Amejeiras. He subsequently served in the “Frank Pais” column of Raul Castro’s Second Eastern Front beginning in March 1958. There, in the Sierra Cristal, Raul Castro promoted him to Captain and made him chief of the Territorial Personnel and Inspection Directorate, the Intelligence Service, and the Rebel Police for the Second Front. In January 1959, Pineiro was promoted to Commander (Major equivalent) and assigned as Chief of the First Military District (Oriente Province). By the year’s end, he was Raul Castro’s representative to the headquarters of Rebel Army Intelligence.

Fidel Castro allegedly selected Pineiro to serve on the Revolutionary Tribunals, formed to try 43 Batista’s pilots and airmen with genocide. Over the years, he developed a reputation as being fiercely loyal to Fidel Castro. A close advisor and confidant of Castro, Pineiro was respected as audacious and intelligent. He attended formal intelligence training in the Soviet Union and served as a member of Havana’s Exterior Relations Commission.

In 1961, he helped found the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), which he served with until 1975. For almost ten years, he led the MININT’s Technical Vice Ministry as Director of the DGI before subsequently heading the National Liberation Directorate (DLN). A 400-man element, previously assigned to the DGI, this entity oversaw support to foreign revolutionary movements. Over time, the DLN evolved into the Cuban Communist Party’s America Department, which Pineiro led for over 15 years.

In addition to his intelligence duties, Pineiro was a member of the 148-member Central Committee of Cuba’s Communist Party since its establishment on October 3, 1965.

Fallece el agente castrista Aruca a los 72 años

ElNuevoHerald.com

Juan O.Tamayo

Francisco González Aruca, fundador de la agencia de viajes a Cuba Marazul y comentador de la radio en Miami, murió la semana pasada a los 72 años, según dijo su hijo Daniel.
Una nota publicada el lunes en la página de Progreso Weekly, una publicación digital lanzada por Aruca, informó que murió de un ataque al corazón el miércoles 6 de marzo en Denver, Colorado, donde había estado viviendo por varios años.
La nota agregó que su hijo Daniel, en un correo electrónico al editor de Progreso Weekly, Alvaro Fernández, recordó unas palabras de su padre: "Si me muero hoy, sé que he vivido una vida muy llena y que viví mucho más tiempo de lo que cualquier pudiera haber esperado".

Read more here: http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2013/03/11/1428292/72muere-francisco-gonzalez-aruca.html#storylink=cpy

Today in History: Terrorist-Supporting Spy Lectured at Loyola University Law School

cubaconfidential

By Chris Simmons

March 2, 2001: America Area officer Fernando Miguel Garcia Bielsa, a First Secretary at the Cuban Interests Section, guest lectured at Loyola University Law School. Invited by the Los Angeles Coalition in Solidarity with Cuba, Garcia spoke on the Cuban economy and the domestic situation on the island. In 2002, he was publicly thanked– along with five other Intelligence Officers -- by Council on Foreign Relations staffer Julia E. Sweig in her book, Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground. Thrown out of the US during the massive May 2003 expulsions, Fernando Garcia Bielsa had worked closely with the two major Puerto Rican terrorist groups of the 1970s. He subsequently served as a First Secretary at the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in the 1980s.

Editor’s Note: The America Area of the International Department of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC/ID/AA) was previously known as the America Department (DA). This service remains the intelligence wing of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party. As the "DA," the spy service was heavily involved in supporting revolutionaries and terrorists. It has since become more focused on political intelligence operations.

Today in History: Cuba Restored Diplomatic Relations With Uruguay

cubaconfidential

By Chris Simmons

March 2, 2005: The Cuban Embassy in Montevideo re-opened on after newly elected leftist president Tabare Vazquez directed the re-establishment of diplomatic relations. Diplomatic ties had been reduced to the consular level following outgoing President Batlle’s condemnation of Cuban human rights three years earlier. By late 2007, hidden among Havana’s modest six-member diplomatic staff was Cuban intelligence officer Alberto Silvio Cabrera Barrio, who served under the cover of Political Counselor. Given Carbera’s intelligence career, he may well be the senior officer at the Embassy. By default, this would make him the Centro Chief and a DI officer. Additionally, Cuba avoids assigning a lone intelligence officer to a diplomatic facility, so the presence of a second intelligence officer is highly likely (although a DI code clerk could suffice). Cabrera remained in Uruguay through early 2013.

Classmates.com! (Multi-Convicted Castroite spy Gerardo Hernandez and Arturo Lopez-Callejas)

babalublog
By Humberto Fontova

He (Gerardito Hernandez on left) rose to the rank of major in Castro's KGB-tutored Intelligence agency! Whereas his classmate at the Castro-regime's top KGB-tutored spy school (Arturito Lopez-Callejas, on left)...well...?

According to the FBI's affidavit, DGI major Gerardo Hernandez and his cohorts were engaged in, among other acts:

• Intelligence gathering against the Boca Chica Air Naval Station in Key West, the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa and the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command in Homestead Florida.

• Compiling the names, home addresses and medical files of the U.S. Southern Command's top officers along with those of hundreds of officers stationed at Boca Chica.

• Infiltrating the headquarters of the U.S. Southern command.

• Spying on MacDill Air Force base, the U.S. armed forces' worldwide headquarters for fighting "low-intensity" conflicts.

• Locating entry points into Florida for smuggling explosive material.

So who pleads for Hernandez' release? Well, among the most voiciferous we find his classmate from
Stalinist Cuba's top spy training center, Arturo (Artie Levy to you!) Lopez-Callejas,

Granted, in the rigorous KGB-mentored curriculum, Arturito fell well behind his classmate Hernandez. "A little slow upstairs," his KGB-tutored instructors always nodded sadly about Arturito, who was never quite up to the intellectual rigors of this demanding profession..But hey, Arturito--whatever else you can say about his "late-development upstairs"--is still a gung-ho team-player--and by golly!-- he surely TRIES hard!

(Arturito SURE seems touchy about his classmate's exposure and fate--and spares no effort to lobby for his classmate's release.

But like his counterpart of the Corleone family this Fredo of the Castro family also gets to dress rakishly and hob-knob with the Babes!

La sociedad civil cubana para Canada [Ministro de Exteriores se reune con agentes]

La Embajada de Canada en Cuba publica una breve nota de la reunion sostenida por el ministro de relaciones exteriores de ese pais con la "sociedad civil" cubana. no  relacionan los nombres de los que el honorable ministro considera representantes de la sociedad civil en cuba, pero no es dificil identificar en las fotos a rafael hernandez, agente de la contrainteligencia cubana desde los tiempos del cea [centro de estudios america del comite central del partido] y director de la revista temas; y a omar everleny perez villanueva del centro de estudios de la economia cubana [universidad de la habana], explicador "akademico" oficial de la actualizacion del modelo economico neocastrista en cuanta universidad norteamericana tenga la oportunidad y por ello -al menos-, agente de influencias en el exterior. 

no leen la prensa en la oficina del honorable -como es obligatorio referirse en canada a estas personalidades- ministro de relaciones exteriores canuck, o cierran los ojos y van a lo que les conviene.

-------------------

everleny y rafael [1ro y 2do de izq. a der.]

 

baird con everleny

con adela dworin, la presidente del jewish community centre que testifico contra alan gross

la nota de la embajada:

February 15, 2013 - Havana - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird participates in a round-table discussion with members of Cuban civil society. The exchange gave the Minister an opportunity to discuss Cuba’s economic liberalization process and prospects of this leading to greater political freedom on the island, which remains under authoritarian control.

Although there have been some advances with respect to human rights in recent years, much remains to be done.

The Minister conveyed Canada’s view that all Cubans should have a role in building for their country a better, brighter and more prosperous future. This meeting was a chance for the Minister to hear what is being done by civil society groups and to get their assessment of the current human rights situation in Cuba. He pledged Canada’s support for efforts to secure freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law in the only remaining Communist country in the Western hemisphere.

Mitt Romney's Cuban-Russian girlfriend [and spy]!?

Maria Perez Andropov: Cuban mother, Russian father... hum!!!???; usually cuban woman didn't date russian men but the opposite, cuban men date russian woman.

-------------------------------- 

By  Gordon Duff,  Senior Editor

Since 1999, a team of FBI and intelligence agents from Mexico have traced Mitt Romney and his mistress, Maria Perez Andropov, a Cuban/Russian intelligence agent, traveling in and out of Cuba on diplomatic passports.
It started with a photograph.  Mitt Romney in Cuba with a woman named “Maria XXXXX,” (also known as…Maria Perez, Jane Maria Perez, Jane Mary Swift, Maria Andropolun or Maria Anapolov)_ Cuban mother, Russian father.  The year, 1999, a flight to Vera Cruz, then on to Havana. 

The source, a top level FBI official managing counter-narcotics in Mexico, along with L3 Communications, gained access to the Romney file held by Mexican intelligence.

Hacked [???] Over Romney’s Lifting of Cuba Embargo

everything is possible, but there is not a "ministerio de defensa" in cuba but a "ministerio de las fuerzas armadas revolucionarias".
even if the alleged original document estaba dirigido a un a foreigner, el espanol empleado es peor que el que ofrece cualquier traductor automatico. un documento firmado por el cercano a fallecer general julio casas regueiro, dificilmente mencionaria a fidel castro y en todo caso no se refiriria a el y a raul como "mister". tampoco es comun mencionar el 2do nombre de raul escrito por demas en minusculas y mucho menos en un documento de esta naturaleza. mucho celo han puesto los castros en que sus nombres jamas aparezcan involucrados en operaciones encubiertas.

-------------------

Veteranstoday

By Gordon Duff 

Document Below Promises Lifting Sanctions if Elected

Since 1999, a team of FBI and intelligence agents from Mexico have traced Mitt Romney and his mistress, Maria, Perez Andropov, a Cuban/Russian intelligence agent, traveling in and out of Cuba on diplomatic passports.

The memo below, received from official sources, highly classified, outlines the deal made with Raul and Fidel Castro and Mitt Romney.

Accompanying documents reveal too much about the intelligence networks that passed this on.  Their report gives dates and times of travel, intercepts phone calls from Romney while in Cuba and tracks Romney as he travels through Cuba, meets with the Castros and flies back through Canada or Mexico.

Please download and distribute this before it is hacked.  We have been under continual attack since exposing the Romney/Cuba relationship.

Currently we are validating the one photograph of Romney and Maria getting off a plane in Havana, hand in hand, both in stripes, his collarless shirt, her very short dress.

They make a lovely couple. (Surveillance notes below)

The following was included with the photographs, as an excerpt:

Location: La Vaezero Cuba
Date: xxxxxxxxx1999
Subjects: Willard Mitt Romney and Maria Perez (Andropov) Suspected Cuban intelligence operative
Notes: Discussions between the aforementioned persons of interest  taking place on Cuban territory in the city of La Vaezero include but are not limited to drug trafficking, money laundering and currency and human trafficking into the United States of America.
Witnessed was a romantic encounter between the aforementioned persons.
Records: Photographs of the romantic encounter and contemporaneous surveillance team notes. A series of audio recordings were made.

Cuba Remains an Intel Threat

Capitolhillcubans

An excerpt by Chris Simmons in Cuba Confidential:

[I]n July 2008, Dr. Joel F. Brenner, Director of the U.S. Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive (an element of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence) said: “The Russians and the Chinese remain big problems for us. The Cubans are a problem for us and the Iranians are a big problem for us… and the Cubans have a very accomplished set of intel services and they are something we have to watch.”

Last year, the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) told the Senate Armed Services Committee “Cuba remains the predominant foreign intelligence threat to the United States emanating from Latin America.”

Shortly thereafter, former Director of the National Counterintelligence Executive, Michelle Van Cleave, testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that “…measured by its reach, history, objectives and success against us, Cuba is easily within the Top Ten list worldwide.”

Cuba earned its position as “Intelligence Trafficker to the World” by stealing U.S. secrets, not necessarily hacking our computers. Knowing this, it is disingenuous for Washington to split hairs between old-school “economic espionage” and “cyber-espionage directed against economic targets.” Everyone understands that Washington insiders exploit the cyber threat to generate publicity for themselves and funding for their projects. It’s time for the administration to stop minimizing the threat from Havana and revitalize our counterintelligence services so they can better identify and destroy foreign spy services operating in America.

"Operacion Verdad": la ciberguerra de Castro

Yoani Sánchez

Entrevista realizada por Yoani Sanchez al joven Eliecer Avila graduado de la Universidad de Ciencias Informaticas de Cuba (UCI). En la conversación se toca el tema de la Operación Verdad, una estrategia de lucha tecnológica que desarrolla el gobierno cubano en Internet. Desde colapsar sitios, crear falsas matrices de opinón, denigrar y difamar sobre los ciudadanos críticos, hasta hackear portales contrarios a la propaganda oficial.
Este material es de vital importancia para comprender la extensión y virulencia de los soldados de la web, entrenados en instituciones cubanas y la labor de hostigamiento que realizan en el ciberespacio.

El video tiene fallas de origen en el sonido, de manera que pedimos disculpas de antemano!