Eduardo Delgado Rodriguez

Eduardo Delgado Rodríguez was a Cuban brigadier general and chief of the Cuban Intelligence Directorate. His office had the code name MX.

Career

Intelligence Directorate activities Involved in a number of foreign intelligence activities, Delgado Rodríguez was the alleged overseer of a 1996 incident in which four Brothers to the Rescue pilots were killed after being shot down by Cuban Mikoyan 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. Delgado 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.