Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their own interests without reference to Washington suggests that Reagan's friends have begun to see him as a lame duck. That perception comes on top of long-standing nervousness about the U.S. commitment to its allies, a fear fueled by the American example set in recent decades in Cuba, Viet Nam and Lebanon. "The U.S. has no long-term policies anywhere," says a contra official. "If the problem can't be solved quickly and easily, Americans lose interest and move on to something else...
...minimizing of entry red tape reveals that you are expected and welcome to this land of gorgeous adventure and the limber elbow," notes the 1938 Blue Guide to Cuba in summoning Americans to the nearby island. Nowadays, of course, the situation is different. For more than two decades, Cuba has been virtually off limits to U.S. citizens. Recently, however, TIME Contributor Pico Iyer was able to spend roughly three weeks as a tourist on Fidel Castro's island on two separate trips. His impressions...
...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 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...