US government affirms that China had in 2019 or even before, an espionage center in Cuba

The government of USA He assured this Saturday that China already had an espionage center on the island since 2019, or even before, and framed it in Beijing’s efforts to expand its intelligence services throughout the world.

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The White House declassified this Saturday information from its intelligence services, which it sent to EFE, and which reveals the scope of China’s alleged espionage activities in Cuba.

According to those intelligence reports, when the US president, Joe Bidenarrived at the White House in January 2021, received information that China was trying to expand its intelligence services around the world by creating spy centers in Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

Those efforts of China They allegedly included “intelligence collection facilities” in Cuba, a term that can range from centers with dozens of spies to a simple listening post equipped with an antenna.

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That “intelligence collection facility,” the appearance of which the White House did not specify, was allegedly renovated in 2019, according to the declassified information.

Based on this information, it is clear that Washington had information on the espionage activities of China in Cuba since 2019 or even earlier.

This declassification of new information comes after The Wall Street Journal published on Thursday that China and Cuba had reached an agreement to build a large spy center on the island, something that the Cuban Executive categorically denied.

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At first, the White House He described this information from The Wall Street Journal as “inaccurate”; but this Saturday he agreed to give details to the press.

The publication of the information from The Wall Street Journal caused Biden to be showered with criticism from the Republican opposition, especially from representatives in Congress from Florida, where a large part of the Cuban exile lives.

This Saturday, the US official who released the intelligence information emphasized that Biden “inherited” this problem from his predecessor, the Republican donald trump (2017-2021).

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According to that source, as soon as he arrived at the White House, Biden asked his team to resolve this problem and, after months of “discreet” diplomacy, the alleged expansion of China’s intelligence services around the world has been slowed down. included in Cuba.

After the publication of the article in The Wall Street Journal, the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, assured in a statement to the media that it was “unfounded information”, “slander” and “fallacies” to justify the United States sanctions against Cuba and destabilize the island.

For its part, the Chinese government accused USA of “spreading rumors and slander”.

Source: Elcomercio

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