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 Journalsaid
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. Latell
toldThe Wall Street Journal
that the Dirección de Inteligencia bears the imprint of Fidel Castro
himself, who took a personal interest in running the service during his
reign.
Among the strengths of the Cuban
intelligence service is its ability to recruit Americans who are
motivated by ideological reasons, rather than by financial gain. The
Cubans have historically approached Americans at a young age, usually at
universities in the United States or other countries in the Americas.
They cultivate those relationships by employing strategic patience that
pays off many years —even decades— later. By recruiting ideological
sympathizers, the Cubans rarely need to pay their agents large amounts
of money, as the cases of Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Ana Belén Montes and State Department diplomat Manuel Rocha
suggest. Many Cuban agents enter military service in the United States,
which means they acquire Secret or Top-Secret clearances. Others are
instructed to penetrate anti-communist groups of Cuban-Americans in
southern Florida, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The U.S. counterintelligence strategy
prioritizes Russia and China, which means that Cuban intelligence
operations are treated as “an afterthought,” claims the paper. The
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), America’s primary
counterintelligence agency, dedicates relatively few resources to
investigating Cuban intelligence. Its efforts are chronically
“understaffed and outmatched” by Havana, according to former
counterintelligence officers who spoke to The Wall Street Journal.
The paper notes that the FBI is often aware of several dozen cases of
“actual or potential” Cuban agents operating in the U.S. However, it
routinely lacks the requisite resources to investigate them.
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