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...thriller: intelligence sources let on that the group outside the apartment had included Florentino Aspillaga, a Cuban intelligence agent who defected to the U.S. last year. In London a Cuban embassy spokesman charged that the CIA and Britain's MI5 were pressuring Medina Perez to defect and that he had opened fire to keep from being kidnaped. MI5 sources said Medina Perez was a Cuban intelligence agent who had convinced the British he was ready to defect. Had he been lying so he could set up Aspillaga for assassination? Or had he panicked? Calling Le Carre...
...American high technology. Every month, they say, tens of millions of dollars worth of restricted U.S. technology goes to Panama, far beyond that nation's modest needs. Customs Commissioner William von Raab says he believes Noriega "is a beneficiary of the activities of these ((front)) companies." Major Florentino Aspillaga, a senior Cuban intelligence officer who defected to the West this summer, has charged that Noriega received about $3 million for allowing Cuba and the Soviet Union to acquire U.S. technology...
...most damaging revelations concern the extent and nature of Cuba's intelligence and military operations. According to Aspillaga, Cuba's intelligence service, with a total of 2,086 employees, grew substantially more active after the U.S. invasion of Grenada. He said Cuba has steadily acquired U.S. technology, in violation of the American trade ban, through Panamanian Strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega, who reaped millions from the transactions. Noriega, he said, helped Cuba send arms to Nicaragua and to rebel groups in El Salvador, Honduras and Colombia...
Most important, Aspillaga said he will give U.S. officials the names of 350 Cuban agents who have penetrated foreign governments -- after sufficient time has passed for these compaeros to return safely to Cuba. Intelligence analysts expect that the list will cripple Cuba's covert intelligence-gathering capability for several years...
Cuba's government-controlled newspapers made no mention of Aspillaga's defection, though the broadcasts were the talk of Havana. For the past six weeks, Cuban television has been airing a documentary about CIA activities in Havana in which Cuban double agents step forward to expose alleged U.S. spies. Aspillaga's revelations finally made clear why Castro was willing to unmask so many of his own secret agents for the sake of this broadcast: with Aspillaga talking to the CIA, their cover was already blown...