Good news! Now we can close down the NSA and just subcontract the whole thing to Russia

Putin Restores Cuban Beachhead; Mega-Base Built At Peak Of Cold War To Be Resurrected – To Spy On America | Fortuna's Corner

"Earlier this month, (July 16, 2014), the British newspaper The Independent, reported that Moscow and Havana have reportedly reached an agreement on reopening the SIGINT facility in Lourdes, Cuba – once Russia’s largest foreign base of this kind – which was shut down in 2001 due to financial problems, as well as U.S. pressure.…

"‘From the base’, according to The Independent, ‘Russia could intercept communications in most part of the US including — the classified exchanges between space facilities in Florida, and American spacecraft in orbit’."