Sixteenth edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 20:50:38 GMT)

Intelligence news: China to build new communications spy base in Cuba

Serves your right! It is neither friendly nor sensible to bomb a Chinese embassy on a foreign territory.
Well, the new James Bond is definitely Chinese ;).

The recent meeting between China's Minister of Defense Chi Haotian and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro, has led to a joint military agreement that threatens the United States, the Orlando Sentinel reports. China has agreed to build a new electronic spying facility and modernize Cuba's satellite tracking base at Jaruco, Cuba. The facility neighbors the large Russian-manned signal intelligence complex at Lourdes, which can monitor U.S. civilian and military telecommunications in an area that covers from California to Europe. Under the agreement, the Chinese will also modernize Castro's telecommunications monitoring base in Havana.

<source: China Reform Monitor No. 201, May 11, 1999 American Foreign Policy Council, Washington, DC>