• Submitted by: manso
• Politics and Government
• 02 / 28 / 2011

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Counterintelligence is ever alert, one agent says. Cuban counterintelligence "outed" two of its undercover agents on Friday, during a televised exposé of dissident groups that tracked the links between them and their "masters" in the United States.

The program, titled Pawns of the Empire, was broadcast on Cubavisión and can be seen in the official website Cubadebate.

The two "burned' agents were identified as Moisés Rodríguez ( "Agent Vladimir,") and Carlos Serpa Maceira ("Agent Emilio"). Interviewed on camera, Rodríguez said he had infiltrated the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, an illegal but tolerated organization directed by Elizardo Sánchez Santacruz.

Serpa said he had infiltrated Ladies in White, pretending to be an independent journalist and serving as one of the group's contacts with the U.S. media. Much of the program was devoted to his activities, and the newspaper Juventud Rebelde on Saturday published an interview with him

Presumably, both men had extensive access to the inner workings of the two groups, knowledge that could be useful in a possible crackdown by the Castro government. Both described how money and supplies from supporters in the U.S. reach the dissidents through the U.S. Interests Section in Havana.

The comings and goings of dissident leaders and their followers were captured in surveillance film. Several of the photographs were made inside the U.S. mission.

"There are those who continue to underestimate us, but one thing is very clear," Serpa says in the newspaper interview. "The organs of Cuban [State] Security have been, are, and will be present at the right place and time. The enemies of the Revolution have just not learned the lesson."

Source: //miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/2011/02/