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Caribbean-Latin America
Cuba exporting doctors trained as spies
2009-11-21
From Geostrategy Direct, subscription.
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 medical services.
That's generally what dictatorships do ...
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.
Posted by:Alaska Paul

#2  Spies AND indentured slave labor!

THIS IS THE FAMOUS 'GREAT AND FREE HEALTHCARE' THAT REGULAR CUBANS RECEIVE

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Letter from a slave doctor in Angola

A relative of a Cuban slave doctor, who was sent by the Castro regime to work in Angola, have sent me copy of a recent e-mail he received where the doctor explains how the Castro brothers exploit those who are forced to abandon their families and go work in foreign countries.

The name of the doctor has been omitted for obvious reasons. Here is a translation of what he said:

"Let me explain how the contract works. The Angolan government pays Cuba US$10,000 monthly for each doctor, but from that total, the Cuban government pays Angola's Ministry of Health US$6,000 per month to guarantee our housing and transportation. We have to pay for our own food. Of the US$4,000 left we only receive US$600, but 30% of the $600 is paid to an account in Cuba. I spend about US$150 buying food that I have to cook myself and if you check the phone bill, it cost around US$40 to call Cuba. As you can see, it is not easy."

Note - According to the relatives, the 30% that is paid in Cuba is in CUC Convertible Cuban Pesos that are worthless outside of Cuba.

Based on this breakdown, Cuba is receiving US$4,000 net after expenses for each doctor. The Cuban government pays US$420 ($600 less 30%) to the doctor and 180 CUC, go to an account in Cuba.

And the difference, approximately US$3,400, goes to the pocket of Castro & Castro Slave Traders Unlimited.

Some exiled doctors that I've talked to believe that the figure that the Cuban government pays for the "housing and transportation" seems high and is probably what the government told the doctor.

If that's the case, the difference that goes to the Castro brothers pockets could be even higher.

Multiply that by the thousands of Cuban doctors who are currently working in foreign countries and you can understand why Forbes lists Fidel Castro as one of the world's richest dictators.

Next time you hear one of those foreign ignorants talking about the "generosity" of Cuba's leaders in "sharing" thousands of Cuban doctors to help the poor and the needy around the world, show them this letter.
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Posted by: anonymous5089   2009-11-21 18:15  

#1  That's all we bloody need! More threats to our automotive carberator and mechanical fuel pump technology.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-11-21 16:28  

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