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FBI: Cuban Intelligence Aggressively Recruiting Leftist American Academics as Spies, Influence Agents
Sexual entrapment a common tactic

Cuba’s communist-led intelligence services are aggressively recruiting leftist American academics and university professors as spies and influence agents, according to an internal FBI report published this week.

Cuban intelligence services “have perfected the work of placing agents, that includes aggressively targeting U.S. universities under the assumption that a percentage of students will eventually move on to positions within the U.S. government that can provide access to information of use to the [Cuban intelligence service],” the five-page unclassified FBI report says. It notes that the Cubans “devote a significant amount of resources to targeting and exploiting U.S. academia.”

“Academia has been and remains a key target of foreign intelligence services, including the [Cuban intelligence service],” the report concludes.

cont... FBI: Cuban Intelligence Aggressively Recruiting Leftist American Academics as Spies, Influence Agents | Washington Free Beacon


The left knows where its people are-Academia, the media, and hollywood. I would not be surprised to find other leftist groups have infiltrated the same demo. Im reminded of Reagan's run in with leftists at Cal Berkley years ago.


A Recruitment Example
Provided by a self-admitted Cuban intelligence officer, the following is a possible scenario of how the CuIS
might recruit an individual at a US university.
The Cuban intelligence officers located at the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in New York, New York,
or the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, DC, obtain a published work by a specific professor or student
(hereinafter referred to as the “targeted individual”) from a university the CuIS are monitoring. The
material is studied and processed by an intelligence officer in Havana, who is in charge of directing the
effort. This officer makes contact with a Cuban agent within Cuba, possibly a co-opted Cuban academic.
The pair will analyze the published work and design a plan of action that may include a personal letter to the
targeted individual in the United States. The letter will suggest a “genuine” interest in starting a friendship
or contact regarding the topic of the article. The personal letter becomes a pretext for the Cuban intelligence
officer stationed in the United States to use for initial contact with the targeted individual.
The targeted individual now has contact with a Cuban “diplomat” who is interested in his/her work. The
Cuban intelligence officer has a starting point from which to build a relationship and assess the targeted
individual in terms of motivations, weaknesses, and current and future access to information. Through
meetings, meals, and even invitations to visit Cuba, the CuIS will take months or years to assess the targeted
individual. Other Cuban agents in contact with the targeted individual, possibly due to their location at the
university, can support this assessment effort. http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Cuban-Intelligence-Targeting-of-Academia.pdf
Nothing new under the sun...
 
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The left knows where its people are-Academia, the media, and hollywood. I would not be surprised to find other leftist groups have infiltrated the same demo. Im reminded of Reagan's run in with leftists at Cal Berkley years ago.

You did a terrible job of reading the report your article cites.

Academics and researchers have always been a great target for any nation-state. While academia has more Left wing sentiment and even pseudo-revolutionary jargon (though, usually of the rhetorical and even linguistic sort, than supporting direct violence or upheaval), it is also a valuable resource for capitalist and right-wing regimes. Your academics are often interested in it because of research purposes. As the document in question also states:

By its nature, the academic world encourages free thinking and informational exchanges in an open environment. Arguably, such networks are required for research institutes and academicians to accomplish many of their objectives. Within academia, there are clear incentives to build institutional networks to thoroughly explore a wide range of ideas. For instance, it
behooves a researcher to develop direct access to primary sources or populations that will assist in actual research. Unfortunately, such an atmosphere is exploitable by an intelligence service, which can use this open environment to identify and target individuals of interest.

The academic world offers a rich array of targets attractive to foreign intelligence services. US government (USG) institutions draw on academia for personnel, both for entry level staffing and for consultation from established experts. A segment of the population, both students and faculty, is bound for work within the USG. Another segment is likely to have contact with USG information and policies through many other venues, including work with research institutes and numerous forms of contract work.
 
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You did a terrible job of reading the report your article cites.

Academics and researchers have always been a great target for any nation-state. While academia has more Left wing sentiment and even pseudo-revolutionary jargon (though, usually of the rhetorical and even linguistic sort, than supporting direct violence or upheaval), it is also a valuable resource for capitalist and right-wing regimes. Your academics are often interested in it because of research purposes. As the document in question also states:

I read both links. What exactly do you think I missed? That its not used by the govt as a source of "talent"?
 
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FBI: Cuban Intelligence Aggressively Recruiting Leftist American Academics as Spies, Influence Agents
Sexual entrapment a common tactic

Cuba’s communist-led intelligence services are aggressively recruiting leftist American academics and university professors as spies and influence agents, according to an internal FBI report published this week.

Cuban intelligence services “have perfected the work of placing agents, that includes aggressively targeting U.S. universities under the assumption that a percentage of students will eventually move on to positions within the U.S. government that can provide access to information of use to the [Cuban intelligence service],” the five-page unclassified FBI report says. It notes that the Cubans “devote a significant amount of resources to targeting and exploiting U.S. academia.”

“Academia has been and remains a key target of foreign intelligence services, including the [Cuban intelligence service],” the report concludes.

cont... FBI: Cuban Intelligence Aggressively Recruiting Leftist American Academics as Spies, Influence Agents | Washington Free Beacon


The left knows where its people are-Academia, the media, and hollywood. I would not be surprised to find other leftist groups have infiltrated the same demo. Im reminded of Reagan's run in with leftists at Cal Berkley years ago.


Nothing new under the sun...

Certainly not in this post, anyway.
Is it your point that Cuba recruits spies, that it recruits them from among left-leaning people or that it recruits intelligent, educated people? I'd say those three should all be assumed and we didn't really need the FBI to tells us so. I mean, it'd be news if Cuba was trying to recruit spies at a NRA meeting in Mud Lake, Idaho but there's no news here.
 
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I read both links. What exactly do you think I missed? That its not used by the govt as a source of "talent"?

That anyone would use researchers in a given country. That's what we do when we want spies. There's far more to it than ideology. You have to promise tangible benefits, if not actually deliver them. A researcher may or may not share their revolutionary zeal. They just need to be convinced it will be a beneficial venture for them to take that risk (or it may not even seem like a risk to begin with).
 
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Certainly not in this post, anyway.
Is it your point that Cuba recruits spies, that it recruits them from among left-leaning people or that it recruits intelligent, educated people? I'd say those three should all be assumed and we didn't really need the FBI to tells us so. I mean, it'd be news if Cuba was trying to recruit spies at a NRA meeting in Mud Lake, Idaho but there's no news here.

My point was the left knows where to find its people (academia), and that this type of cold war throwback is still going on. Sorry if you dont like that. Not really.
 
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That anyone would use researchers in a given country. That's what we do when we want spies. There's far more to it than ideology. You have to promise tangible benefits, if not actually deliver them. A researcher may or may not share their revolutionary zeal. They just need to be convinced it will be a beneficial venture for them to take that risk (or it may not even seem like a risk to begin with).

I understand that. Im not saying the US doesn't do the same. Im saying its still going on with the left. :cool:
 
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I understand that. Im not saying the US doesn't do the same. Im saying its still going on with the left. :cool:

Except it doesn't require a shared ideology or contention with a policy of a particular government. There are multiple avenues for researchers or research institutions to be targeted, either outright or through unwittingly participating. Ideology was but one method of securing a relationship.
 
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My point was the left knows where to find its people (academia), and that this type of cold war throwback is still going on. Sorry if you dont like that. Not really.

Well, I think a better point is that the Cuban agency knows where the people it wants can best be found. If you want to find intelligent people of any stripe your search should probably begin among academics, no? Not to say that uneducated people can't be intelligent, but you'd expect there to be a higher concentration of higher IQ's in a university than anywhere else. And the fact that the Cuban agency would look for left-leaning people is a no-brainer. In fact, they're probably looking for people who are beyond just being leftist- they're probably looking for communists.
And no, it doesn't bother me that there's still spying going on. Doesn't surprise me, either. In fact, I'd suspect I was being lied to by anyone who told me that Cuba and the US don't spy on each other.
 
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I see that this story is picking up steam on conservative media outlets. Lord knows why, when much of this was already published many years ago with publicly available sources. From 2011, with additional examples.

FBI — Higher Education and National Security
 
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Well, I think a better point is that the Cuban agency knows where the people it wants can best be found. If you want to find intelligent people of any stripe your search should probably begin among academics, no? Not to say that uneducated people can't be intelligent, but you'd expect there to be a higher concentration of higher IQ's in a university than anywhere else. And the fact that the Cuban agency would look for left-leaning people is a no-brainer. In fact, they're probably looking for people who are beyond just being leftist- they're probably looking for communists.
And no, it doesn't bother me that there's still spying going on. Doesn't surprise me, either. In fact, I'd suspect I was being lied to by anyone who told me that Cuba and the US don't spy on each other.

The left (in this case, cubans) does not seek people based on intelligence or IQ, they are looking for ideologues with very little real world experience, the left has an affinity for this. Hence our left leaning academia-especially in humanities.
 
Re: FBI: Cuban Intelligence Aggressively Recruiting Leftist American Academics as Spi

I see that this story is picking up steam on conservative media outlets. Lord knows why, when much of this was already published many years ago with publicly available sources. From 2011, with additional examples.

FBI — Higher Education and National Security

Still newsworthy. :2wave:
 
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The left (in this case, cubans) does not seek people based on intelligence or IQ, they are looking for ideologues with very little real world experience, the left has an affinity for this. Hence our left leaning academia-especially in humanities.

You didn't get that from what you reported and linked to. “Cuba heavily targets the schools that train the best candidates for U.S. government jobs, like Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, and George Washington University.” doesn't describe ideologues with very little real world experience. You're just reaching here, trying to stretch the reports to find support for your own ideology.
 
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Liberals are more likely to sell out their own country than conservatives.

How many nationalist socialist (formerly known as progressives) or liberal democrats who identify themselves as being nationalist ?
 
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The left (in this case, cubans) does not seek people based on intelligence or IQ, they are looking for ideologues with very little real world experience, the left has an affinity for this. Hence our left leaning academia-especially in humanities.

They also look for academics to innocuously give them research information by, for instance, pretending to be doing complimentary research and wanting to see if that person would take a look at it and see what they are doing right or wrong. They may also give the targeted researcher access to research materials they want. They may prop an academic up by saying they should present their research at a conference that is a front (that way the academic is preyed on by delivering research results to a room he thought was filled with otherwise innocent academics or professional bodies). They may give them free travel and then get the data they want (either outright asking for it or by snatching it when they aren't around).

This is far more than ideology. I'm not entirely surprised that the conservative media is idiotically ignoring that.
 
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They also look for academics to innocuously give them research information by, for instance, pretending to be doing complimentary research and wanting to see if that person would take a look at it and see what they are doing right or wrong. They may also give the targeted researcher access to research materials they want. They may prop an academic up by saying they should present their research at a conference that is a front (that way the academic is preyed on by delivering research results to a room he thought was filled with otherwise innocent academics or professional bodies). They may give them free travel and then get the data they want (either outright asking for it or by snatching it when they aren't around).

This is far more than ideology. I'm not entirely surprised that the conservative media is idiotically ignoring that.

Im not saying there isn't more than ideology (practicality for example), im saying the left knows where to get its bread buttered.
 
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Liberals are more likely to sell out their own country than conservatives.

How many nationalist socialist (formerly known as progressives) or liberal democrats who identify themselves as being nationalist ?

:lamo :lamo
Yup no right wingers conspiracy nut cases ever "sold out their own country"
And I love somehow Nazis and "progressives" get thrown together.
As always your petty super partisan rhetoric is ****.
 
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:lamo :lamo
Yup no right wingers conspiracy nut cases ever "sold out their own country"
And I love somehow Nazis and "progressives" get thrown together.
As always your petty super partisan rhetoric is ****.

Historically the left has sold out this nation like its cool. They will tell you all day how much they hate this country.
 
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:lamo :lamo
Yup no right wingers conspiracy nut cases ever "sold out their own country"
And I love somehow Nazis and "progressives" get thrown together.
As always your petty super partisan rhetoric is ****.

You just comprehended it that way. It's true in the beginning Germany's NAZIS were nationalist socialist. But every time you read any of my post always read my signature. >"Inside Every Liberal Is A Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out"<

Nothing wrong being a patriot aka nationalist, it's the socialist part that's dangerous.
 
Re: FBI: Cuban Intelligence Aggressively Recruiting Leftist American Academics as Spi

Liberals are more likely to sell out their own country than conservatives.

How many nationalist socialist (formerly known as progressives) or liberal democrats who identify themselves as being nationalist ?

So now progressive = Nazi.

You are almost stunningly dishonest.
 
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You didn't get that from what you reported and linked to. “Cuba heavily targets the schools that train the best candidates for U.S. government jobs, like Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, and George Washington University.” doesn't describe ideologues with very little real world experience. You're just reaching here, trying to stretch the reports to find support for your own ideology.

It's not even to support his own ideology. It's simply to bash "the left," since that is all U.S. Conservative ever does.
 
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Historically the left has sold out this nation like its cool. They will tell you all day how much they hate this country.

Wanting to change something does not mean hatred. Welcome to democracy 101
 
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You just comprehended it that way. It's true in the beginning Germany's NAZIS were nationalist socialist. But every time you read any of my post always read my signature. >"Inside Every Liberal Is A Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out"<

Nothing wrong being a patriot aka nationalist, it's the socialist part that's dangerous.

Yayyyyy!!! Progressives are Nazis! More petty rhetoric ****!
 
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So now progressive = Nazi.

You are almost stunningly dishonest.

Do some research, the American progressives during the progressive era in America were mostly nationalist socialist. Progressives like Woodward Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, Dillingham, etc.

Todays progressives aren't progressives, they are something else hiding behind the progressive label.
 
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