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...
United States consistently underestimates Cuban intelligence, sources say Posted by Ian Allen AGENTS OF THE CUBAN government have “penetrated virtually every segment of the United States national security structure,” enabling Havana to share actionable intelligence with Russia and China, according to a new report. Citing former United States and Cuban intelligence officers, The Wall Street Journal said on Saturday that Washington’s counter- intelligence efforts are no match for Cuba and its intelligence service, the Dirección de Inteligencia (DI). The DI is “the best damn intelligence service in the world” for cultivating agents, according to Brian Latell, a retired CIA analyst who served as the U.S. Intelligence Community’s National Intelligence Officer for Latin America. INTELNEWS.ORG