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Article: Cuba, Intelligence and Security
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- Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, andSecurity
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Cuba, Intelligence and Security
Cuba has a security and intelligence apparatus that, when considered in light of the nation's size and its weak economy, is on a scale many times larger than that of the United States. Whereas its poverty, lack of exports, and depressed economic conditions would normally make Cuba an irrelevant player on the international scene, its clandestine operations extend its influence throughout the globe.
Chief among Cuban intelligence agencies is the Direcci
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n General de Inteligencia (DGI), or General Intelligence Directorate. Established within the Ministry of the Interior in 1961, DGI initially took an aggressive role in fomenting third-world Communist ...