SITE MAP	Unclassified	16 Aug 02
FBIS/Central Eurasia Program Directory of RF Defense Related Agencies and Personnel
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	ZATOs (Closed Administrative-Territorial Areas) Electronic Intercept and Space Surveillance Station (Lourdes, Cuba)

Electronic Intercept and Space Surveillance Station (Lourdes, Cuba)

• [Possibly subordinate to GRU (Izvestiya 14 Aug 01 ).]
• ["The Russian Federation Defense Ministry radioelectronic center, whose upkeep, according to the Americans' somewhat inflated estimates, costs Russia about $300 million per year, was opened in accordance with a treaty between Cuba and the USSR in 1978.  This base was later modernized and began operating on the basis of the Russian-Cuban agreement of 1993.  According to unofficial reports, this radioelectronic intercept and space surveillance station (the largest in the Western Hemisphere that does not belong to the United States) is capable of monitoring all communications passing through U.S. civilian and military electronic satellite communications networks" (Nezavisimaya Gazeta 15 Aug 01 P 2).]
• ["В Лурдесе сегодня развернута специальная бригада Главного разведывательного управления (ГРУ) Генштаба, которая перехватывает, прослушивает, сортирует и анализирует в год миллионы телефонных и радиосообщений с территории      Северной Америки и от кораблей американского ВМФ в регионе" (Moskovskiye Novosti, 23 Oct 01).]

ZATOs (Closed Administrative-Territorial Areas), Ministry of Defense Department for