The United States government assured that China had had an espionage center in Cuba since 2019, if not earlier, as part of Beijing’s efforts to expand intelligence services around the world.
The White House this Saturday released information from its secret services, which it sent to the EFE bureau, revealing the extent of alleged espionage activity by China in Cuba.
According to these reports, when the President of the United States, Joe Biden, when he arrived at the White House in January 2021, received information that China was trying to expand its intelligence services around the world with the establishment of spy centers in Latin America. , Middle East, Asia and Africa.
These Chinese efforts reportedly include “intelligence-gathering facilities” in Cuba, a term that could encompass anything from centers with dozens of spies to a simple listening post equipped with an antenna.
This “information gathering facility,” the appearance of which the White House did not specify, will be renovated in 2019, according to declassified information.
Based on this information, it is clear that Washington had had information about Chinese espionage activities in Cuba since 2019 or even earlier.
The release of new information comes after The Wall Street Journal published on Thursday that China and Cuba had reached an agreement to build a major spy center on the island, something the Cuban executive categorically denied.
Initially, the White House classified the paper’s information as “inaccurate,” but this Saturday it agreed to release details to the press.
The publication of the information in the newspaper placed the president, Joe Biden, under intense criticism from the Republican opposition, especially from representatives in Congress in Florida, where much of the Cuban exile community lives.
This Saturday, the US official who released the information from the secret services emphasized that Biden “inherited” this problem from his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump (2017-2021).
According to the source, as soon as Joe Biden arrived at the White House, he asked his team to solve the problem and, after months of “discreet” diplomacy, the alleged expansion of China’s intelligence services around the world, including in Cuba.
Following the publication of the article, Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío assured in a statement that it was “unfounded information”, “slander” and “sophistry” to justify US sanctions against Cuba and the to destabilize the country. Island.
The Chinese government accused the United States of “spreading rumors and slander”.
Source: DN
