The Chinese and Cuban governments have signed an agreement whereby China will install a large secret spy center on the Caribbean island that will allow intercept communications of all kinds in USA, according to the newspaper ‘The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)’ on Thursday.
The newspaper, which quotes “US officials aware of classified information”, considers that the agreement is only in principle for the moment, and would have as a counterpart the payment of billions of dollars by beijing to the Government of Havana.
There is no indication of where the base would be or what its size would be or the number of personnel it would need; nor is it clear -says the WSJ- what the Joe Biden government to hinder an agreement of these characteristics.
The newspaper assumes that an espionage base in Cuba, less than 150 kilometers from Florida, it would be useful for know the detail of maritime traffic in a region with a large number of military bases, as well as monitoring all electronic communications in the southeast of USA.
The newspaper looked for the version of the Chinese Embassy in Washington and the Cuban one, in both cases without success.
The only identified source that the newspaper cites is John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council, who clarifies that he cannot speak about this specific report, but then adds: «We are very aware of China’s efforts to invest in infrastructure around the world for military purposes, including this continent. We are following them very closely and taking countermeasures.”
