Cuba's Relations With Iran and Syria

An excerpt from The University of Miami's new report, "Cuba's Growing Relations With Iran and Syria":

More worrisome to the United States are reports that "have uncovered covert cooperation between the two countries in the development and testing of electromagnetic weapons that have the capacity to disrupt telecommunication networks, cut power supplies and damage sophisticated computers." Furthermore, Cuba can easily provide Iran with valuable information from its sophisticated espionage apparatus. Iran is also able to obtain information on biotechnology from Cuba. In the late 1990s, Cuba began "transferring (licensing) both its medical biotechnologies and, along with the technical know-how, implicit capabilities to develop and manufacture industrial quantities of biological weapons," creating a significant security threat for the United States and Israel.