LA RED TELEFÓNICA DEL MININT Y EL APOYO TECNOLÓGICO DE LA STASI ANATOMÍA DE LA REPRESIÓN Y EL ESPIONAJE CASTRISTA JORGE L. GARCÍA VAZQUEZ Foto: antiguo Ministerio de la Seguridad del Estado, Berlín https://www.stasimuseum.de/index.htm Dieter Volkel, oficial y especialista en comunicaciones de la Stasi , llegó a Cuba con la mis...
By Jorge L. García Vázquez ESPIONAGE E. Germans drew blueprint for Cuban spying (2007) A once-jailed Cuban exile's research reveals how East Germany exported its repressive Stasi security system to Cuba, where it lives on BY MICHAEL LEVITIN Special to The Miami Herald BERLIN https://havana-berlin-connection.blogspot.com/2011/05/east-germans-drew-blueprint-for-cuban.html Cuban spies received secret messages by old-time short-wave By Juan O. Tamayo Every week, one short wave radio station in Cuba broadcasts 97 messages coded in fax-like tones. A computer program easily available to the public changes the tones into numbers, and the Cuban spies then decode the numbers into words. A second Cuban spy station transmits 16 messages per week in the dots and dashes of the 175-year-old Morse code – secret messages to Havana spies who may be older or less technologically savvy. Cuba’s most famous numbers station, known as “Atención” because of the opening line of the deadpan fem...