The United States government confirmed today that China has indeed had a spy center in Cuba since 2019, or even earlier, as part of Beijing’s efforts to expand its secret services around the world.
Today the White House has declassified information from its secret services, which it has sent to the EFE Agency, that reveals the extent of alleged espionage activities by China in Cuba.
According to these reports, when the President of the United States, Joe Biden, arrived at the White House in January 2021, he received information that China was trying to expand its intelligence services around the world by establishing espionage centers in Latin America. Middle East, Asia and Africa.
These Chinese efforts allegedly included “intelligence gathering facilities” in Cuba, a term that can include everything from centers housing dozens of spies to a simple listening post with an antenna.
According to the declassified information, the “information-gathering facility”, the appearance of which was not specified by the White House, will have been renovated in 2019.
Based on this information, it is clear that Washington has information on Chinese espionage activities in Cuba since 2019 or even earlier.
The declassification of the new information comes after The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that China and Cuba had reached an agreement to build a major spy center on the island, which the Cuban CEO categorically denied.
Initially, the White House classified the newspaper’s information as “inaccurate,” but today it has agreed to give details to the press.
The publication of the newspaper’s information put the president, Joe Biden, under heavy criticism from the Republican opposition, especially from congressional representatives in Florida, where a large portion of the Cuban community lives in exile.
Today, the US official who published the information from the secret services confirmed that Biden “inherited” this problem from his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump (2017-2021).
According to the source, once in the White House, Joe Biden asked his team to solve the problem and, after months of “secret” diplomacy, the alleged expansion of Chinese information services around the world, including in Cuba.
After the article was published, Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, confirmed in a statement that this is “unfounded information”, “slander” and “inaccuracies” intended to justify US sanctions against Cuba and destabilize the island.
The Chinese government accused the United States of “spreading rumors and slander”.
