"It
is well known and documented that Soviet and East European communist
intelligence services played key roles in training guerrilla cadres of
all types, including those engaged in insurgent intelligence and CI
work.These complex, multifaceted support efforts—carried out
clandestinely in insurgent host countries and in the USSR, Eastern
Europe, and third country camps and facilities as well—trained several
generations of insurgents and terrorists in pertinent skills including
those of intelligence and counterintelligence. This history is too
extensive to be addressed here but needs to be considered as a backdrop
in more focused assessments of current approaches. One example is worth
noting, however, since it contributed so much to guerrilla approaches
in a region of the world. The example is the role of the East German
Ministry for State Security(Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit—MfR),
more commonly known as the Stasi. Stasi training and support efforts
covered a number of areas of the world. Its influence, however, was
particularly strong in Cuba, where the Cuban Ministry of the Interior
(MINIT) was charged with a broad spectrum of internal and external
security functions and became in many respects a close Stasi analog.
The nature of the close relationship had been asserted and partially
documented for years in Western assessments. The training of Cuban
intelligence and counterintelligence officers in the techniques of the
East German “counterintelligence state” was evident in many ways.
The demise of the German Democratic Republic in 1990 and consequent
access to Stasi files confirmed and expanded the understanding of the
relationship. Regarding guerrilla CI, this relationship is important
because Cuban trainers played substantial roles in passing on their
knowledge to Latin American and other insurgent groups. Cuban
researcher Jorge Luís Vázquez,
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