Name: Cuban Regime Spent Decades Building Influence in US Leading to Espionage Operations: Retired CIA Operations Officer
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Description: Rick de la Torre, a retired operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), discussed with NTD's Steve Lance how the Cuban regime's intelligence agents penetrated the top ranks of the State Department, the National Security Council, and the Department of Defense, and how Havana has worked to influence and destabilize American politics over the years.

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<span class="production-element" data-production-element-type="instruction">Rick de la Torre, a retired operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), discussed with NTD's Steve Lance how the Cuban regime's intelligence agents penetrated the top ranks of the State Department, the National Security Council, and the Department of Defense, and how Havana has worked to influence and destabilize American politics over the years. </span>

<span class="production-element" data-production-element-type="instruction">De la Torre also discussed the many mixed signals from the Iranian regime about a diplomatic solution, its indications of fracture in the Iranian regime, and how Chinese intelligence helped Iranian missiles to penetrate U.S. air defenses in the Gulf. He also discussed China's intelligence gathering against the United States in Cuba, and how the Cuban regime has enabled China to survey U.S. military facilities.</span>

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