Trump ties latest Hunter revelations to Biden inaction on China's Cuba spy base: 'Bigger than Watergate'
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Fox News ^
| 6/24/2023 | Adam Shaw
"Within ten days, the Bidens got $5.1 million from China for absolutely no reason. They
got $5.1 million. In fact, they've taken tens of millions of dollars from China. And that's probably why, maybe he's not complaining about the fact that they're building military bases in Cuba. Maybe that's the reason," he claimed. Trump later went on to describe Biden as a "compromised president" and suggested that Biden’s policies were being influenced by past business dealings. "This is truly 100 times bigger than Watergate. This is a much bigger story than Watergate. That's why Biden doesn't mind that China has...
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Kirby says he was as truthful as possible about Chinese spy station in Cuba
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The Washington Times ^
| June 12, 2023 | Dave Boyer
A top White House official accused of misleading the public on China’s plans to build a spy station in Cuba said Monday that he was constrained by the sensitive nature of a media report on the potential national-security threat to the U.S. “We were as forthcoming as we should have been,” National
Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters at the White House. The Wall Street Journal reported last Thursday that China and Cuba had reached a secret agreement for Beijing to build an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island, allowing Chinese intelligence services to “scoop up electronic communications throughout...
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After initially crying ‘inaccurate,’ Biden admin confirms China has had a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019
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The New York Post ^
| 06/11/2023 | Isabel Keane
China has teamed up with a communist ally to spy on the US just 90 miles south of Florida, White House officials confirmed. The
country has been operating a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019 as part of an effort to ramp up its spying efforts, a Biden administration official said, noting that the issue has been “ongoing” and predates Biden’s presidency. The anonymous White House official said that the US intelligence community has known of China’s spying from Cuba for some time, deeming it an “ongoing” matter” that is “not a new development.” The Biden admin has...
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China to place secret base in Cuba to spy on US: report
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Just the News ^
| June 8, 2023 | Madeleine Hubbard
China reportedly reached an agreement with Cuba to allow them to create an electronic eavesdropping facility on the Caribbean island, which is located about 100 miles south of Florida, as tensions between Beijing and Washington have been rising dramatically over the past several months. The
Cuban facility would allow Chinese intelligence officials to monitor U.S. ship traffic and to listen to electronic communications throughout the southeastern United States, according to U.S. officials with knowledge of highly classified intelligence, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. China reached an agreement in principle to pay several billion dollars to the impoverished Marxist-Leninist nation...
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Cuba to Host Secret Chinese Spy Base Focusing on U.S.
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WSJ ^
| 8 June 2023 | Warren Strobel & Gordon Lubold
Beijing will pay Havana several billion dollars for eavesdropping facilityChina and Cuba have reached a secret agreement for China to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island, in a brash new geopolitical challenge by Beijing to the U.S., according to U.S. officials familiar with highly classified intelligence. An
eavesdropping facility in Cuba, roughly 100 miles from Florida, would allow Chinese intelligence services to scoop up electronic communications throughout the southeastern U.S., where many military bases are located, and monitor U.S. ship traffic. [Snip] “While I cannot speak to this specific report, we are well aware of—and have spoken many...
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'Deadly' double agent Ana Montes who was a US spy for communist Cuba freed from prison after 20 years
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https :// www . yahoo . com / news / deadly - double - agent - ana - montes - 114121345 . html ^
| 1-8-23 | Bethany Dawson
Ana Montes, who is regarded as "one of the most damaging spies," has been released from a prison in Texas. Montes, now 65, worked for the US Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, as the top analyst on Cuba during the Cold War. Washington knew her as the "Queen of Cuba" for her
insights into Fidel Castro's communist regime.
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Russian Spy Ship’s Arrival in Cuba Raises Eyebrows
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ABC News ^
| Jan 21, 2015, 4:28 PM ET | Jim Avila and Serena Marshall
The historic U.S.-Cuba talks are under way and they may have attracted a new addition to the Havana port. The
Russian spy ship Viktor Leonov CCB-175 parked there Tuesday, laden with high-tech software, radar and 30-millimeter cannon and anti-aircraft guns, replacing a cruise ship that had been there the day before. Normally, the surveillance ship travels up and down the American Eastern Seaboard in international waters, with its radars pointed in the direction of the United States. On Tuesday, however, just as the Americans were due to arrive for big talks with Cuban officials—the first such high-level talks held in...
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Russian spy ship docks unannounced in Havana on eve of historic US-Cuba talks
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Daily Mail, UK ^
| January 21, 2015 | By SIMON TOMLINSON
Cold War games? In a throwback to the Cold War, a Russian spy ship caused a stir after unexpectedly docking in Havana on the eve of historic talks between the U.S. and Cuba. There was nothing stealthy about the arrival of the Viktor Leonov CCB-175, which was moored to a pier in
Old Havana where cruise ships often dock.
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Russian spy ship in Havana on eve of US-Cuba talks
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Yahoo News ^
| 1/20/15 | AFP
Havana (AFP) - A Russian intelligence warship docked in Havana on Tuesday, a day before the start of historic US-Cuba talks aimed at normalizing diplomatic relations. There
was nothing stealthy about the arrival of the Viktor Leonov CCB-175, which was moored to a pier in Old Havana where cruise ships often dock. But the visit was not officially announced by Cuban authorities. US officials in Washington played down the presence of the Russian vessel, saying it was perfectly legal and not at all out of the ordinary. "It's not unprecedented. It's not unusual. It's not alarming," a defense official told...
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