Havana-Berlin Connection

Research Blog by Jorge L. García Vázquez.How East Germany exported its repressive Stasi security system to Cuba. "Havana-Berlin Connection: State Secrets and Notes on the Collaboration between the Stasi and MININT" (East Germany had a major role in building up Cuban counterintelligence as well as its foreign intelligence services, providing training for decades ... right up to the final days of East Germany,” Chris Simmon, U.S. counterintelligence officer and expert on Cuban intelligence)

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Cuban Dissident Says Security Forces are Studying Vladimir Putin’s Rule

by Chris Simmons

By Juan O. Tamayo, jtamayo@ElNuevoHerald.com

Cuban security officers are studying post-communist changes in Russia — and being nicer to dissidents — in preparation for a possible transition away from the island’s totalitarian system, leading opposition activist Guillermo Fariñas said Tuesday.

http://cubaconfidential.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/cuban-dissident-says-security-forces-are-studying-vladimir-putins-rule/