Pentagon: Media Reports on China Spy Station in Cuba Are 'Not Accurate'

[Judi Lynn]

2. Cuban, US Governments Deny Secret Chinese Spy Base in Cuba

2023/06/09
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World

The Cuban and U.S. governments have both denied a Wall Street Journal report saying Havana and Beijing agreed to establish a Chinese electronic eavesdropping facility in Cuba, some 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Florida.

If true, a spy base with such proximity to several U.S. military bases in the southeastern region of the country would allow Beijing to collect electronic communications and monitor ship traffic, the newspaper said.

The agreement was reached in principle, The Wall Street Journal said, in exchange for “several billion dollars” for the cash-strapped Latin American country.

Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez De Cossio said the report was a U.S. fabrication, describing it as “totally mendacious and unfounded.”

He stressed his country rejects all foreign military presence in Latin America, including the bases maintained in the region by the United States.

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