Cuba exporting doctors trained as spies

The Cuban government is using the dispatch of Cuban doctors and medical personal around the world as cover for intelligence-gather activities, according to an opposition Cuban web site.

PayoLibre.com reported Nov. 11 that Cuban government doctors are trained by the intelligence agency’s counterintelligence corps.

“The goal of some of these doctors who carry out internationalist missions is to monitor the governments in the countries where they are sent,” the report said.

The report said it was common practice for Havana to insert intelligence personnel among doctors that are dispatched to various countries to provide so-called humanitarian medical services.

The agents conduct intelligence collection on public sentiment in the countries about Cuba’s communist regime and to seek to dissuade anti-Cuban sentiment in the states where the doctors are sent.

“The propaganda in favor of the Cuban Government is used at all times, from the moment that the doctors set foot on foreign soil,” a source told the website. “The agents gather detailed information that is later sent to Cuba. These secret missions are carried out in all the countries where the Havana regime offers humanitarian aid in the health sector.”

The source was a former Cuban agent who was recalled to Cuba for failing to carry out orders after two years in Venezuela. The source stated that Cuba spies on the leftist regime of Hugo Chavez because of doubts about Chavez’ loyalty to the Cuban communist cause.

The practice of infiltrating intelligence agents NGOs and even under the aegis of the U. N. is neither new, unique or exclusively Cuban. Castro sees great opportunity with a White House.that is much more sympathetic and indecisive.