National
October 20, 2016 1:00 PM
New trade-regulation debate: Should the U.S. share intelligence with Cuba?
The release of the last three members of the Cuban spy ring known as the Wasp Network as part of the Obama administration’s opening to Cuba touched off demonstrations in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood in December 2014. The three were released in exchange for the Cuban government freeing the American contractor Alan Gross and a Cuban who had spied for the U.S. Lynne Sladky AP
By Franco Ordoñez
WASHINGTON
President Barack Obama’s new 12-page directive on trade and travel to Cuba, widely heralded for its elimination of limits on Americans’ purchases of cigars and rum, contains a largely unnoticed provision that has alarmed Cuban-Americans in South Florida.
It instructs the U.S. director of national intelligence to cooperate with Cuban intelligence services.
Ana Montes spent almost 20 years spying for Cuba while working as a U.S. intelligence analyst. Here, her FBI booking photo on the day of her arrest, Sept. 21, 2001. The "Queen of Cuba" is one of America's most harmful spies, but few have heard of her. HANDOUT Courtesy of FBI
The Obama administration says the one-sentence objective, which calls on the Office of the Director of National Intelligence “to find opportunities for engagement on areas of common interest” with Cuban counterparts, is intended to combat “mutual threats.”
Read more here:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article109404597.html#storylink=cpy
