Eduardo Delgado Rodríguez was a Cuban brigadier general and chief of the Intelligence Directorate in Cuba.[1] He went by the code name MX within the espionage agency's hierarchy, whose ranks go from MI to MX.[2]
Career
editIntelligence Directorate activities
editInvolved in a number of foreign intelligence activities, Rodríguez was the alleged overseer of a 1996 incident where four Brothers to the Rescue pilots were killed after being shot down by Cuban Mikoyan planes. The involvement of the Intelligence Directorate was revealed by Stuart Hoyt Jr., a retired FBI agent, during the trial of five individuals accused of spying for Cuba.[2] Rodríguez was also the chief investigator in the trial and eventual execution of Arnaldo Ochoa for treason and drug trafficking in 1989.[3] Rodríguez was quoted as saying in a news conference in 1991 that he and intelligence agents had stopped a "U.S.-backed attempt to create an opposition group on the island" started by exiles and dissidents in Spain and Cuba, respectively.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Muere general Eduardo Delgado, jefe de la inteligencia cubana durante 20 años" [General Eduardo Delgado, head of Cuban intelligence for 20 years, dies]. El Periódico de Catalunya. 2017-06-29. Retrieved March 31, 2019.
- ^ a b Gail Epstein Nieves (January 12, 2001). "Cuba's spy network revealed". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on January 28, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
- ^ "Accused Leader in Shootdown Ran Cuban Drug Probe". Miami Herald. May 9, 1999. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
- ^ "Tiananmen dissidents in solitary, China says". Toronto Star. September 1, 1991. Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
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