Cuban spies have a particular talent for getting people to spill secrets. That's a problem for Washington
Cuba lies more than 100 kilometres from the nearest slice of the continental United States, but it has managed to keep a close eye on what Uncle Sam is up to for a very long time.
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![Cubans queue to enter the US embassy in Havana on January 9, 2024. The US Customs and Border Protection agency said on January 27, 2024, that it had registered some 153,600 irregular entries from Cuba in 2023. Another 67,000 entered legally under a family reunification program introduced a year ago by the administration of Joe Biden. And there are yet more, undetected, who arrive on rafts and manage to enter the United States under the radar. Together with the 313,506 who left in 2022, this recent mass movement represented "the largest number of Cuban migrants recorded in two years since the beginning of the post-revolutionary Cuban exodus in 1959," said Jorge Duany, Director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University. Cubans line up to enter the U.S. embassy in Havana on Jan. 9, 2024.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7124448.1708728713!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/cubans-line-up-outside-the-u-s-embassy-in-havana.jpg)
Cuba lies more than 100 kilometres from the nearest slice of the continental United States, but it has managed to keep a close eye on what Uncle Sam is up to for a very long time.