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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.
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...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