[iwar] [fc:Russia.bids.farewell.to.Cuba.spy.centre]

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Subject: [iwar] [fc:Russia.bids.farewell.to.Cuba.spy.centre]
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Saturday December 29, 09:07 PM

Russia bids farewell to Cuba spy centre

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has started its farewells to its former
communist ally Cuba as it prepares to close a big spy centre, ending
four decades of Russian military presence on the Caribbean island.

As Russian and Cuban officials held farewell ceremonies near Havana,
Russian military officials were quoted as saying work to dismantle the
Lourdes electronic spying centre in Cuba would start on January 15.

Interfax news agency quoted the unnamed Russian defence ministry
officials as saying three An-124 planes would be used to transport the
centre back to Russia.

President Vladimir Putin's decision to close the costly eavesdropping
centre near Havana, from which Moscow listened in to U.S. secrets
through the Cold War, has met resistance from veteran Cuban leader Fidel
Castro but has won applause from U.S. President George W. Bush.

A final Russian military pullout from Cuba will mark the end of a
40-year chapter in the Cold War in which Moscow sent troops and
equipment across the world in the 1960s to the doorstep of the United
States to shore up its new young communist ally.

The Russian foreign ministry separately announced on Saturday that
official ceremonies had been held in Lourdes to mark the closure of the
base.

It quoted the Russian ambassador to Cuba, A. Dmitriyev, as saying Russia
remained committed to developing re

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