At least 37 U.S. companies that worked in Cuba from 2000 to 2009 are involved in top-secret taxpayer-financed endeavors somewhere in the world, Washington Post and FedSpending records show. In July 2010, the Washington Post identified 1,931 companies that do top-secret work on behalf of the U.S. government (See the Post’s Top Secret America database). [...]
Cuban companies snag $1-million-plus in U.S. funds
The U.S. government has spent nearly $1 billion in Cuba since 2000. More than $1 million went directly to Cuban government-operated companies, but most of the American tax dollars were spent at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, or Gitmo, where detainees from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are kept. These U.S. government expenses, found at [...]