[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25442]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      DENOUNCING THE CUBAN REGIME

  (Mr. SIRES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. SIRES. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to denounce the deplorable and 
dangerous actions of the Cuban regime.
  On Monday, The Miami Herald reported that in the 6 months after the 
attacks of September 11, dozens of Cuban spies walked into our 
embassies all over the world and sent our officials on wild goose 
chases disguised as terrorist threats. These intelligence agents 
fabricated threats to deliberately pull our officials away from their 
work of identifying and preventing more attacks.
  I cannot stress the underhanded and malicious nature of the regime in 
Cuba. These actions directly undermined our national security. These 
agents repeatedly, before and after 9/11, visited embassies. They posed 
as defectors to get our intelligence to waste time and resources. These 
visits to embassies increased dramatically after 9/11, and Cuban agents 
specifically used our sensitivity to terrorist threats to mislead our 
officials.
  The Cuban regime deceived us when we were most vulnerable, in the 
months after the deadliest attacks on American soil.
  Mr. Speaker, I am outraged by this news, and I hope my colleagues 
are, also.

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