Castro government has been allowing China to eavesdrop on the United States.

The Heritage Foundation in a study about China found that the Castro government has been allowing China to eavesdrop on the United States. The study also found that China is expanding militarily throughout Latin America as well. The study said in part, “On the military front, China has expanded ties through exchanges. It reportedly has direct military-to-military relations with Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay.

The PRC [People’s Republic of China] began collaborating with Brazil on spy satellite technology in 1999, providing rocket launch expertise in exchange for digital optical technology that would permit high resolution, real-time imaging. Moreover, access to Brazil’s space tracking facilities could give China the ability to attack U.S. satellites with a variety of tech­nologies currently under development.”“Perhaps,” the Heritage study continued, “the most fruitful collaboration has been with Dictator Fidel Castro. In 1999, China was reportedly intercepting satellite signals from facili­ties in eastern Cuba. In 2000, it obtained access to a base outside of Havana to intercept U.S. telephony. In 2001, Russia announced that it would abandon its extensive electronic espionage center at Lourdes.

PRC personnel reportedly now occupy it. A February 2004 agreement cloaks such operations under the pretext of technical communica­tions cooperation. In fact, Radio China International signals originate from Cuba, as does interference with U.S. East Coast radio communications and air traffic control, according to Federal Com­munications Commission complaints.”