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Some anti-Castro elements in the US jumped on a State Department claim that television programming to Iran was being jammed in Cuba to add that claim to a long list of alleged Cuban outrages. Two Cuban dissidents caused confusion and disagreement within the exile community. A new book accuses Elizardo Sanchez, leader of a human rights organization in Cuba, of working as an agent of the government while posing as a dissident. Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, leader of a moderate exile group in Miami, returned to live permanently in Cuba hoping to convince President Fidel Castro to negotiate peaceful change.

Cuba ends jamming from Iranian Embassy

An incident involving jamming of satellite signals to Iran from "the vicinity of Cuba" was quickly resolved by routine diplomatic exchanges between Cuba and the US. However, a number of newspapers and political groups misrepresented the facts in an apparent effort to portray the Cuban government as the culprit.

The jamming prevented satellite television signals from reaching Iran from private broadcasters in Los Angeles. The broadcasts were intended to support recent protests in Iran against the government.

The US State Department said US and Cuban officials met in Washington and Havana to discuss the jamming. The US officials said only that the jamming appeared to come from Cuba but made no accusations. In his daily press briefing, State Department spokesman Philip Reeker said the department did not know who was behind the jamming and had asked Cuba to look into it....

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