Leaked documents discuss Cuban spies, US concerns

[Bacchus39]

CARACAS, Venezuela – Cuban intelligence agents have deep involvement in Venezuela and enjoy direct access to President Hugo Chavez, the U.S. Embassy said in a 2006 diplomatic cable.

The report from then U.S. Ambassador William Brownfield was posted online Tuesday by the newspaper El Pais of Spain as a growing list of sensitive U.S. government messages were released by WikiLeaks.

The Jan. 30, 2006, cable says that "Cuban intelligence officers have direct access to Chavez and frequently provide him with intelligence reporting unvetted by Venezuelan officers."

Similar claims have been made by Chavez's political opponents, but U.S. officials have not publicly aired such concerns.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101130/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_wikileaks

[dipsydoodle]

1. Is that an issue for either Venezuela or Cuba ?

I would imagine the same applies in the UK between the CIA and our government. :shrug:

[Bacchus39]

2. more info here in Spanish

I don't have time to translate it at the moment, but here is a snip regarding alleged Cuban activities in Venezuela

Los agentes cubanos, siempre según los documentos filtrados a WikiLeaks, también tendrían acceso a las oficinas migratorias que se ocupan de documentar y nacionalizar a extranjeros y controlar su ubicación y movimientos.

Así, un despacho de la embajada en Bogotá (231613) relata la reunión del entonces canciller colombiano Mauricio Acero con un funcionario consular, al que advierte sobre la fraudulenta obtención de la nacionalidad colombiana por cientos de extranjeros. "Acero aventuró que algunos cubanos (tratarían de conseguirla) para escapar del régimen y otros podrían estar utilizando la nacionalidad colombiana para ejecutar operaciones de inteligencia encubiertas".

http://eluniversal.com/2010/11/30/int_ava_espias-cubanos-actua_30A4796135.shtml

[Bacchus39]

3. article updated. must read!!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_venezuela_wikileaks

A secret memo dated Jan. 28, 2010, discussed a biannual counterintelligence meeting "to review current threat levels and countermeasures." It says that the embassy faced a high espionage threat and that officials discussed the need for strict security policies, including in the use of BlackBerry phones.

The memo said U.S. officials believed tht Venezuelan intelligence agencies "are controlled by the Cuban Intelligence Service" and that they "have the capability, means and desire to monitor and target Embassy staff."

In other released documents, U.S. diplomats said they believed there are leftist rebels in Cuba belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. And they said that in one private conversation in November 2009, Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim "all but acknowledged presence of the FARC in Venezuela."

According to an earlier memo from the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia in February 2008, Jobim told then U.S. Ambassador Clifford Sobel "that the Brazilian government shared the Ambassador's concern about the possibility of Venezuela exporting instability."

[Peace Patriot]

4. And how did Brownfield get this information? By spying!!!

:rofl:

William Brownfield is the tool that the Bush Junta then sent to Colombia, and who arranged for extradition of death squad witnesses to the U.S., on mere drug charges, and 'burial' of these witnesses in the U.S. federal prison system--out of the reach of Colombian prosecutors and over their objections--by complete sealing of their cases in U.S. federal court in Washington DC. And if that wasn't enough sabotage of the Colombian justice system, he also secretly negotiated a U.S./Colombian military agreement, getting Colombia's spying-connected, death squad-connected, drug trafficking-connected mafioso president Alvaro Uribe's signature on it, granting "total diplomatic immunity" to all U.S. military personnel and all U.S. military 'contractors' in Colombia. The Colombian supreme court recently declared this agreement unconstitutional.

I figure the second item might have something to do with the U.S. State Department's recent "fining" of Blackwater for "unauthorized" "trainings" of "foreign persons" IN COLOMBIA "for use in Iraq and Afghanistan." (I don't believe the word "unauthorized.") And both items might be connected to the U.S. government coddling and protection of Uribe because of what he may know about the Bush Junta's war crimes in Colombia.

Oh, and the chief witness against Uribe in the spying scandal--spying on judges, prosecutors, political opponents, human rights groups, trade unionists, literally everybody--was just whisked out of Colombia and given weirdly fast asylum in Panama, another U.S. client state--and six more spying witnesses against Uribe are said to be on the way. That's likely the work of Daddy Bush's pal, CIA Director Leon Panetta (member of his Iraq Study Group, if you will recall) one of whose jobs I suspect is cleaning Junior's trail. In addition to everything else, was the Bush Junta helping Uribe spy on everybody in Colombia?

Brownfield was the Bush tool in Venezuela during the 2002 coup attempt, and then buddied up with Uribe for one of the bloodiest periods in Colombian history--with the Colombian military and its deaths murdering thousands of the above spied upon people, plus many peasant farmers, and driving 5 MILLION peasant farmers from their land--THE worst human displacement crisis on earth--using state terror methods, and with about a half a million of them fleeing over the borders into Venezuela and Ecuador for refuge.

Bloody jerk this guy--no doubt involved in shoveling multimillions of our tax dollars to fascist groups in Venezuela and Colombia and in many dirty deeds. With him, to Colombia, came $7 BILLION in U.S./Bushwhack military aid, and untold amounts in USAID, CIA and other funds.

I was hoping that the cables might shed some light upon why Obama/Clinton left him in place in Colombia until recently. Was it because Jim DeMint (SC-Diebold) was blackmailing them on Honduras, by holding up all their Latin American appointments? Or because they wanted the Colombian justice system to "look forward not backward" on Uribe's many crimes, and needed the Bushwhack "fixer" to get it done? They've honored Uribe with a prestigious appointment to an international legal committee and likely approved his academic sinecures at Harvard and Georgetown. Uribe must know a lot.