SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- Spy Islanda series by journalist Juan Manuel Cao, has revealed recordings and information about operations by Cuban agents in the United States.
The journalistic investigative work, which is transmitted after the recent capture of former diplomat Víctor Manuel Rocha, convicted of spying for Cuba for four decades, exhibits unpublished material on the actions of Cuban intelligence agents and demonstrates that the regime has come to militarily attack itself. to build a victimist stance.
The material rescues the case of a Cuban intelligence officer in New York who exchanged secret information with his agent in Miami.
Cao and the investigation team that managed to capture the spy’s conversations obtained the testimony of the then Cuban ambassador to the UN, currently exiled in the United States.
More than 30 years after having followed agent “Raúl” with the cameras, the name by which Carlos Manuel Collazo Usallán identified himself, Cao’s program exhibited the methods used for espionage by the third secretary of the delegation. Cuban at the UN.
Agent “Raúl”
The incident dates back to before the case of Ana Belén Montes and that of Red Avispa but did not receive much attention in the media.
Spy Island shows the diplomat Collazo followed by the cameras of journalist Juan Manuel Cao in the middle of espionage work.
The agent, considered “clumsy” by the then diplomat Alcibiades Hidalgo – who appeared on Cao’s program – had even admitted that he had orders to kill and was willing to do so.
Dissimilar conversations and videos showed the way of working “Raul.” He captured the messages received through Radio Havana Cuba and deciphered them and was filmed on multiple occasions when he met with another agent.
The Havana regime should have publicly stated that the delegate had been removed from office but never acknowledged the reasons why he was forced to leave the United States.
“Panchito” and the regime’s self-attacks
The investigations shown by Cao also revealed the regime’s actions to attack itself and accuse the US of it.
In this regard, the case of Franciso Ávila, “Panchito”, military chief of Alfa 66 but double agent was addressed: on the one hand, an agent of Castro’s intelligence, on the other, of the FBI.
Francisco Ávila Azcuy arrived in Miami on November 11, 1979. He had been imprisoned in Cuba since 1987, after being captured while trying to infiltrate the island.
A slab installer in Miami, he was contacted in Miami by Cuban intelligence and, as he himself has revealed, he began passing information to the FBI. He became a double agent, while at the same time occupying the military leadership of Alpha 66.
In that role he kept the FBI informed of the instructions he received from Cuba, as well as the activities planned by Alfa 66.
Based on the investigations and Ávila’s own statements, it is revealed that the regime used $12,000 to buy a boat used by the Alfa 66 organization to make a military raid on Cuba.
The then double spy had several fake IDs to use in case he had to escape the country. The documents had been issued by US authorities, which could indicate that Cuban intelligence can also penetrate these institutions, Cao said.
Cuban espionage
The investigation, which airs between June 17 and 21, also presents clandestine documents that reveal the techniques used by Cuban espionage.
From encrypted messages, open radio messages, maps with escape routes, contact points in the US, Mexico or in border areas of Cuba, licenses and social security cards with false names and instructions of different types given by the regime from Havana to its agents.
The US Department of Justice confirmed in December that Víctor Manuel Rocha, 73, a former ambassador to Bolivia and Argentina and a member of the National Security Council, had been accused of spying for the Cuban regime for 40 years.
Rocha was arrested in Miami as part of a counterintelligence investigation carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The former official was accused of secretly serving as an agent of the Cuban dictatorship.
In recent decades there have been many agents and officials who have carried out espionage for the Havana regime. Surely, the best-known cases are those of the Wasp Network, a cell deactivated by the FBI in the late 1990s, and of Ana Belén Montes, a high-ranking intelligence analyst for the US Department of Defense, who was accused in October 2001 to deliver classified information on Defense to the Castro regime. Nevertheless, they are not the only ones.
Another case was that of the married couple Carlos Álvarez, a psychology professor at Florida International University (FIU), and Elsa Álvarez, a school social worker.
Both were accused in January 2006 of working as agents for 30 years and feeding the Havana regime with information about US agents and anti-Castro exile groups. The couple tearfully apologized to a court and were convicted of lesser crimes.
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2024-06-19 23:45:05
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