Falling Short in Understanding Cuban Intelligence by Chris Simmons

August 2, 2012

Falling Short in Understanding Cuban Intelligence: Part I in a Series ¹

Tags: Brian Latell, Directorate General of Intelligence (DGI), Directorate of Counterintelligence (DCI), Directorate of Intelligence (DI), Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (CIM), Directorate of Military Intelligence (DIM), Florentino Aspillaga, General Directorate of Counterintelligence (DGCI), Juan Antonio Rodriguez Menier, Wasp Network

In “Cuba’s Intelligence Machine,” the newly released assessment by The University of Miami’s Cuba Transition Project, Dr. Brian Latell provides a breezy and very readable summary of Cuban Intelligence with two notable exceptions:

1. The primary mission and target of Cuban Intelligence is incorrect.
2. The number of Cuban operations known to have been destroyed/degraded by US Counterintelligence is grossly understated.

Today, I will address the first issue.   In “Cuba’s Intelligence Machine,” Latell claims the United States is “the raison d’être” of Cuban intelligence, according to still another experienced defector I interviewed.”

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