State Department Deports Cuban Intelligence Influence Agent Who Operated Through ICAP Front Group in US for Over a Decade

Secretary of State Marco Rubio terminated the legal status of Cuban national Carlos Antonio Lloga Dominguez, whom the State Department said spent more than a decade working as a foreign subversive for the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People (ICAP), Havana's "premier influence and intelligence front group" in the United States 12. Federal agents detained Lloga Dominguez along with his wife and son this week, and the three are in federal custody pending removal to Cuba 234. State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said Lloga Dominguez maintained ties to the "transnational communist subversion network" throughout his time in the country and described ICAP as the central node of an intelligence and influence operation spanning more than 2,000 organizations in over 150 countries 12. Rubio sanctioned ICAP earlier in June under Executive Order 14404, freezing its US assets and barring Americans from transacting with it; ICAP has denied wrongdoing and calls itself a civil society organization 34.