Officials said the facility is one of dozens that Beijing has established, or sought to establish, as it seeks to expand its intelligence activities worldwide.
The spy station in Cuba dates back to at least 2019, when it underwent unspecified upgrades, a Biden administration official said, citing newly declassified intelligence. This official, who like others
called the report inaccurate without elaborating, but on Saturday, citing the newly declassified information, the National Security Council clarified that the spy facility was in fact “well-documented in the intelligence record.” The United States maintains an extensive system of eavesdropping facilities hosted by partners around the world, including stations in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Australia. These sites, dating back to the Cold War, are aimed at collecting, in particular, electronic communications from China and North Korea.
Despite campaign promises to restore openings to Cuba, President Biden has left much of Trump’s restrictive Cuba policy in place.“This is an issue that this administration inherited,” the White House said in an emailed statement. Republican lawmakers chided the administration for appearing to downplay the development’s significance.
Biden’s strategy called for engaging governments considering China’s overtures, the statement said, and “we have been executing on that approach quietly, carefully, but with results ever since.” That includes seeking to dissuade countries that might be considering hosting a Chinese eavesdropping facility, the administration official said.
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