Cuban spies have expanded their scope beyond the U.S. and Latin America to Iran, Turkey, India and Pakistan. So feisty for such a tiny island:

”We’ve seen a change in how they use ambassador-spies,” [Chris] Simmons [a former counterintelligence officer] said, to ensure that their intelligence centers “never again get closed.”

Such top intelligence officers are also being dispatched to places where the United States has active military operations, he said.

”They feel compelled to work against every major U.S. military operation for their own interest and because it is vital to their allies,” he told the lawmakers. He said the information is then shared with U.S. rivals like Russia.

He said Cuba has established four new ”regional intelligence centers” — in Iran, India, Pakistan and Turkey.

Simmons, who worked on Cuba for the DIA for a dozen years, has founded the Cuban Intelligence Research Center, based in Leesburg, Va.

Ties with Iran’s current authorities have always been close, but the cooperation has become tighter, especially after 2006. The two countries work together on jamming TV and radio broadcasts and on dual-use biotechnology.

Fun! The U.S. is like the kid at the front of the class making the most noise that no one likes. And plots elaborate schemes against. Using biotechnology.

Cuba said to broaden its spying against U.S. [Miami Herald]