Chronicle on Cuba - April 2005

Terrorism

April 26: John Bolton, President Bush's nominee as UN ambassador, battles complaints that he tried to get two US intelligence analysts fired or reassigned because they disagreed with his words on Cuba. John Bolton's confirmation hearings and previous congressional testimonies do not reveal any hard evidence on whether Cuba is or is not working on bioweapons. But they do offer an intriguing vision of how the US intelligence community has handled the semantics of the issue. The dispute arises from a secret National Intelligence Estimate on worldwide bioweapons capabilities, produced by the CIA and other intelligence agencies in 1999. U.S. officials who have seen it say that, for the first time, it expressed strong concern over Cuba. (The Miami Herald, 26/4/05)