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)
Cuban officials closed ranks around Mr. Castro, their embattled former president, who was indicted on murder charges in the downing of two civilian planes 30 years ago.
Former Cuban President Raúl Castro, center, at May Day celebrations in Havana earlier this month.Credit…Yamil Lage/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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