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August 4, 2008
MEDIA ALERT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA CONTACT:
Concept Creations, Inc.
(305) 431-0300 / (305) 608-9996
CHRIS SIMMONS ON
BABALUBLOG RADIO
WHO:
Christopher S. Simmons, an active-duty Lieutenant Colonel
in the U.S. Army and a career counterintelligence officer
since 1987, is one of America ’s foremost authorities on Cuban
Intelligence. From 1996-2004, Simmons was deeply involved with the
majority of U.S. Counterintelligence successes against Cuba . He was a
central figure in the identification, investigation, and debriefing of
convicted Cuban spy, Ana Belen Montes – the highest-ranking Cuban
spy ever sent to prison in the United States . Simmons was the lead
military official in the May 2003 expulsion of 14 Cuban spies serving
under diplomatic cover; the third largest diplomatic expulsion in U.S.
history and the only one not targeted against Russia/USSR. He has
lectured on Cuban Intelligence throughout the U.S. Intelligence
Community, to Congress, and in several academic or private sector
forums.
WHAT:
LTC Christopher S. Simmons will be interviewed by BabaluBlog
Radio Hour host George Moneo regarding the four Cuban spies that
he named during his Miami visit last week:
Dr. Alberto Coll: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special
Operations/Low Intensity Conflict) from 1990-1993. Subsequently served
as Chairman of the Strategic Research Department at the Naval War
College . In 2005, he admitted lying about a trip to Cuba and accepted a
plea agreement wherein the rest of his confession was sealed.
Dr. Gillian Gunn Clissold: Associate Director, Caribbean Programs
at Trinity College . One of 16 Cuba experts in FIU’s “ Cuba in
Transition” project. Directed Georgetown University ’s “Cuba Project,” a
notorious magnet for Cuban intelligence officers and agents. Has briefed
Cuban issues to Congress, the CIA, DIA, State Department, and the Army &
Air Force War Colleges (among others).
Marifeli Perez-Stable: Vice President for democratic governance
at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington , D.C. ; member of the
editorial board of contributors of The Miami Herald; professor in the
Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Florida International
University ; and a newly elected Board member of the Association for the
Study of the Cuban Economy.
Gilberto Abascal: FBI informant against Osvaldo Mitat, Santiago
Alvarez, and Luis Posada Carriles.
WHERE:
The Babalu Radio Hour
Tune in:
www.blogtalkradio.com/babalu
Call in: (646) 652-4506
WHEN:
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 @ 9:00 p.m. (EST)
INFO:
www.CubanIntelligence.com
* Collaboration: Ana Margarita Martinez
anamargaritam@bellsouth.net
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