CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Cuban officials in Havana on Thursday.
Ratcliffe met with the top officials “to personally deliver President Trump’s message that the United States is prepared to seriously engage on economic and security issues, but only if Cuba makes fundamental changes.”
| A partir de la solicitud presentada por el gobierno de EE.UU. de que se recibiera en La Habana una delegación presidida por el director de la CIA, John Ratcliffe, la Dirección de la Revolución aprobó la realización de esta visita.https://t.co/Hsie0kd0Ng
— Presidencia Cuba (@PresidenciaCuba) May 14, 2026
A US government plane was seen in Havana as Ratcliffe met with Cuban officials.
A US government plane was seen in Havana as CIA director John Ratcliffe met with Cuban officials to discuss bilateral law-enforcement cooperation https://t.co/XLibghhxWR pic.twitter.com/kgo2Pf58Zf
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 14, 2026
NBC News reported:
CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with Cuban officials in Havana on Thursday, according to a CIA official and a statement from the Cuban government.
Ratcliffe met with Cuba’s minister of interior, the head of the Cuban intelligence service and Raulito Rodriguez Castro, a government official who is the grandson of former President Raúl Castro, according to the CIA official.
The CIA official said that Ratcliffe was there “to personally deliver President Trump’s message that the United States is prepared to seriously engage on economic and security issues, but only if Cuba makes fundamental changes.”
The CIA official added that Ratcliffe and the Cuban officials discussed “intelligence cooperation, economic stability, and security issues, all against the backdrop that Cuba can no longer be a safe haven for adversaries in the Western Hemisphere.”
Cuba said it provided information that “made it possible to categorically demonstrate that Cuba does not constitute a threat to U.S. national security.”
Cuba also said that there were no “legitimate reasons to include it on the list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.”
It was later reported by CBS News that the US government is moving to indict Raul Castro.
“The U.S. is taking steps to indict Raúl Castro, the 94-year-old former president of Cuba and brother of Fidel, in connection with the downing of planes 30 years ago, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter,” CBS News reported.
“The potential indictment — which would need to be approved by a grand jury — is expected to focus on Cuba’s deadly 1996 shootdown of planes operated by humanitarian group Brothers to the Rescue,” the outlet reported.
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