Wikileaks reveal US concerns on Cuba-Venezuela ties

[Turborama]

Source: BBC

Cuban intelligence agents have deep involvement in Venezuela, according to a 2006 US diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks. Then-US Ambassador William Brownfield wrote that Cuban spies had "direct access" to President Hugo Chavez.

Another cable sent in 2010 said Cuban agents controlled spying operations against the US embassy in Caracas.

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The secret diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks were published by the Spanish newspaper, El Pais.

Similar allegations of Cuban intelligence influence in Venezuela have been made by Venezuelan opposition groups, but US officials have not publicly expressed such concerns.

The leaked cable from Ambassador Brownfield says the ties between Cuban and Venezuelan intelligence are so close that the two countries agencies "appear to be competing with each other for the Venezuelan government's attention".

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11883465

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More synopsis at the link.

It appears that El Pais doesn't have an English edition, here's their article for any Spanish speakers: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/espias/cubanos/actuan/libre/Venezuela/despachan/Chavez/elpepuint/20101130elpepuint_13/Tes

The 2010 cable: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Cable/espionaje/cubano/dirige/operaciones/Venezuela/elpepuint/20101130elpepuint_39/Tes

The 2006 cable: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Cable/servicios/inteligencia/cubanos/tienen/acceso/directo/Chavez/elpepuint/20101130elpepuint_36/Tes

[EFerrari]

1. Cuban intelligence is probably why the president is still alive. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

3. Absolutely right, after over 600 assassination attempts, as admitted by the C.I.A.!

You probably remember it was the Cuban intelligence who tipped off the Panamanian police in time to keep Luis Posada Carriles and his fellow violent "exile" idiots from blowing up Fidel Castro and a whole auditorium full of people, in 2000:

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In the year 2000, President Castro attended the Ibero-American Summit meeting in Panama City. Shortly after arriving, he announced that Posada and three other Cuban-Americans were at that very moment preparing to set off a bomb that would kill not only the Cuban president but hundreds of Panamanian people, mostly students, to whom he would be speaking in a university auditorium. Thanks to Cuban intelligence agents, their exact location was given to Panama's police, who arrested them and seized their C-4 explosives, fake passports, etc.

Because Cuban intelligence officials had learned of the plot, more than 2000 people attended Fidel Castro's speech without being killed or wounded. How did Cuba know about the plot and save all those lives? Through Cuban agents who infiltrate terrorist groups. In 1998, a year after Posada's bombing campaign in Havana hotels, Cuban officials received information about terrorism they thought the FBI should know about. They gave that information to the FBI. Did the FBI arrest the terrorists? No, the FBI arrested the Cubans in Miami who had gathered the information and called THEM terrorists. A change of venue was refused.

More:
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~hbf/TerroristNetwork.html

Of course anyone conscious knows the vicious oligarchy, working with the U.S., as they kidnapped President Chavez before at gunpoint, will kill him the next chance they get.

http://www.worldpress.org.nyud.net:8090/images/0902venezuela.jpg

An anti-Chavez protester from several years ago, Caracas.
How long would this piece of filth last in the streets here
against a Republican Prsident? He wouldn't have made it 5
feet away from his car without getting tackled.

[dipsydoodle]

2. Sounds a bit like

the CIA and the UK government.

[Judi Lynn]

4. You've got that right! Our embassy in Bolivia was even recruiting Peace Corps workers

to do double duty by reporting to them on any Cuban or Venezuelan people in Bolivia!

We wouldn't know about it at all, since they had been doing this before one Peace Corps volunteer took moral offence to it, and went public with his outrage that he had ever been asked to also serve as a spy.

We also have heard over the years of spies going into countries under the guise of being missionaries.

[davidinalameda]

5. yet again no surprise