According to the affidavit, during this time frame, the CuIS often communicated with its clandestine agents in the United States by broadcasting encrypted radio messages from Cuba on shortwave radio frequencies.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Cuban Intelligence Operations in the US

Clandestine agents in the United States monitoring the frequency on shortwave radio could decode the messages using a decryption program provided by the CuIS. Such methods were employed by defendants previously convicted of espionage on behalf of Cuba.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Cuban Intelligence Operations in the US

"I do fear we're not really appreciating the absolute horror of what someone's going through there, " he told the Radio Times, describing the conversion of Lewis's character into a clandestine al Queda operative as "almost like titillation".

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