Eduardo Delgado Rodríguez was a

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n brigadier general and chief of the

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in Cuba. Its office had the code name MX.

Career

Intelligence Directorate activities

Involved in a number of foreign intelligence activities, Rodríguez was the alleged overseer of a 1996 incident where four

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pilots were killed after being shot down by Cuban

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planes. The involvement of the Intelligence Directorate was revealed by Stuart Hoyt Jr., a retired FBI agent, during the trial of five individuals accused of spying for Cuba. Rodríguez was also the chief investigator in the trial and eventual execution of

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for treason and drug trafficking in 1989. Rodríguez was quoted as saying in a news conference in 1991 that he and intelligence agents had stopped a "U.S.-backed attempt to create an opposition group on the island" started by exiles and dissidents in Spain and Cuba, respectively.

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