Government USA assured this Saturday that China he already had a spy center on the island from 2019 or even earlier, and blamed it on Beijing’s efforts to expand its intelligence services around the world.

The White house declassified this Saturday the information of its special serviceswhich he sent to EFEand which reveals the extent of China’s alleged espionage activities in Cuba.

According to these intelligence reports, when US President Joe Biden arrived at the White House in January 2021, he received information that China tried to expand its intelligence services around the world with the creation of spy centers in Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa.

These Chinese efforts reportedly included “intelligence collection toolsin Cuba, a term that can include anything from centers with dozens of spies to a simple listening post equipped with an antenna.

This “intelligence gathering facility”, whose appearance the White House did not specify, was supposedly refurbished in 2019according to declassified information.

Based on this information, it becomes clear that Washington has had information about Chinese spying activities in Cuba since 2019 or even earlier.

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This declassification of new information comes after Thursday Wall Street Magazine published that China and Cuba have reached an agreement on build a big spy center on the islandwhich the Cuban executive categorically denied.

At first, the White House called this information “inaccurate.” Wall Street Magazine; but this Saturday he agreed to give the details to the press.

Publication of information Wall Street Magazine made Biden he was criticized by the Republican oppositionespecially representatives of the Congress of Florida, where a significant part of the Cuban exiles live.

This Saturday, the U.S. official who released the intelligence emphasized that Biden “inherited” this problem from his predecessorRepublican Donald Trump (2017-2021).

According to this source, as soon as he arrived at the White House, Biden asked his team to fix the problem and, after months of “low-key” diplomacy, the supposed expansion of China’s intelligence services around the world, including in Cuba, has slowed down.

After the publication of the article Wall Street MagazineCuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio assured the media in a statement that it was “unsubstantiated information”, “slander” and “delusions” to justify US sanctions against Cuba and destabilize the island.

For its part, the Chinese government accused the United States of “spreading rumors and slander.” (EFE)