China denies new report linked to four bases in Cuba that think tank claims allow the Chinese Communist Party to spy on the United States
The Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a report last week detailing facilities in Cuba that it alleges China may be using to collect signals intelligence (SIGINT) about the United States. published a book.
Chinese Foreign Minister Mao Ning told reporters on Wednesday that “China-Cuba cooperation is transcendent and does not target any third party, and malicious slander from third parties will not be tolerated.” Ta.
Carlos de Cossio, Cuba's foreign minister, said reports about Chinese spy sites in Cuba come from the United States' “enemies of Cuba” and are “a means to justify a criminal policy of economic aggression. That is completely false.”
CSIS analyzed more than a dozen “points of interest” in Cuba and said four of them were most likely to support China and its espionage efforts.
“These facilities have undergone visible renovations in recent years, even as Cuba faces increasingly dire economic prospects due to its proximity to China.” of the report the authors said.
Each of the four sites had “observable SIGINT instruments,” clear physical security infrastructure, and other indicators of intelligence gathering.
One such base, Bejucal, located on a hill overlooking Havana, has long been suspected of ties to Chinese intelligence. The complex gained notoriety for storing Soviet missiles during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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During the 2016 presidential debate, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio called on Cuba:[kick] Take it out from this Chinese listening station in Bejukal. ”
According to CSIS findings, satellite imagery shows the site was active as of March 2024 and has been active for some time. The base has at least five entrances to underground facilities, but satellite images did not show what was inside. Antennas dot the ground, including satellite dishes used to intercept satellite communications.
Because Havana is located just 160 miles off the coast of Florida, the location is used to collect data on U.S. rocket launches from Florida's Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. There is a possibility that
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(CSIS/Hidden Reach/Maxar 2024)
The United States and China are engaged in a space race, and a rocket launch by the United States to deliver a satellite into space is likely to attract a lot of interest within the Chinese Communist Party.
Elsewhere on the other side of the island, east of the city of Santiago de Cuba, a large-scale radio signal discovery technology project is under construction that can detect signals from 3,000 to 8,000 nautical miles away.
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Cuba has a history of allowing adversaries of the United States to use its soil to intercept American communications. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union operated a SIGINT facility at the Lourdes Signals Intelligence Complex near Havana. The site monitored U.S. satellites and intercepted classified military and commercial communications.
In recent decades, the China-Cuba alliance has grown, with China providing the island nation with about $7.8 billion in development loans.
