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Article: Fidel makes offer to Chinese government. (news alert!).(Fidel Castro, Cuba)(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- June 24, 2002
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Cuban leader Fidel Castro has offered the Soviet-built electronic intelligence-gathering base near Lourdes to the Chinese government for operations against the United States, the Russian newspaper Izvestia reports.
Last October, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he would shut down the 26-square-mile facility, the largest outside the former Soviet Union. But Castro, citing Moscow's unpaid debts to his regime, reportedly seized some of the eavesdropping technology the Russians were readying to ship home. Only about two-dozen Russian intelligence officers and technicians remain at the base, where they are serving as caretakers until the two sides can ...