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E. Germans drew blueprint for Cuban spying (2007)
A once-jailed Cuban exile's research reveals how East Germany exported its repressive Stasi security system to Cuba, where it lives on
E. Germans drew blueprint for Cuban spying (2007)
A once-jailed Cuban exile's research reveals how East Germany exported its repressive Stasi security system to Cuba, where it lives on
BY MICHAEL LEVITIN
Special to The Miami Herald
BERLIN
Cuban spies received secret messages by old-time short-wave
By Juan O. Tamayo
Every week, one short wave radio station in Cuba broadcasts 97 messages coded in fax-like tones. A computer program easily available to the public changes the tones into numbers, and the Cuban spies then decode the numbers into words.
A second Cuban spy station transmits 16 messages per week in the dots and dashes of the 175-year-old Morse code – secret messages to Havana spies who may be older or less technologically savvy.
A second Cuban spy station transmits 16 messages per week in the dots and dashes of the 175-year-old Morse code – secret messages to Havana spies who may be older or less technologically savvy.
Cuba’s most famous numbers station, known as “Atención” because of the opening line of the deadpan female voice in Spanish that started its transmissions, went off the air just late last year, Smolinski.
The lack of any accent in the voice of the Atención station was explained in December by Jorge García Vázquez, a Cuban in Berlin who has been researching the links between Havana and the STASI, the former East Germany’ intelligence service. A Jan. 10 1977 letter in the STASI archives shows Cuban intelligence Maj. Eddy Herrera had requested the equipment for a numbers station, preloaded with the Spanish words for one through zero, Attention, Goodbye and Final, Garcia Vázquez reported.
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, 33 ..."
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