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)

Saturday, May 23, 2026

The shoot-down was a conspiracy. The indictment accuses Raúl Castro and several Cuban military officers of participating in a conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals by targeting Brothers to the Rescue aircraft in February 1996.
The operation was ordered at the highest levels of the Cuban government. According to prosecutors, all orders flowed through the Cuban military chain of command with Raul and Fidel Castro “as the final decision makers.”
By Antonio María Delgado/ Miami Herald
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https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/cuba/2026-05-19/cuba-declassified-records-brothers-rescue-shootdown?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=d794cf42-039a-4428-9001-59f971d1dfce

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