By Jesse Scheckner
The incident happened 5 years after reportedly leaked intelligence showed Cuban spies stole security information from the hub.
Visiting members of Cuba’s socialist regime got a special, TSA-led tour of Miami International Airport (MIA) security areas this week, and Miami-Dade officials said they were kept in the dark about it.
In a statement on social media, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said she was “shocked” to learn the Transportation Security Administration invited a Cuban delegation to tour its MIA facilities, where they could view potential security vulnerabilities.
The tour happened Monday and was given without the county’s knowledge, Miami-Dade Aviation Department spokesperson Greg Chin told Florida Politics.
Levine Cava said her office has contacted the Department of Homeland Security “to understand how this decision was made” and to include the county in “any future decisions regarding access to MIA facilities to foreign government officials.”
The troubling incident occurred on the same day many celebrated Cuban Independence Day to commemorate the island nation’s separation from Spain and honor those who have fought to wrest its control from dictators since. Miami-Dade has the largest Cuban diaspora in the United States, with more than 1.2 million Cuban American residents.
The tour also happened just under five years after reportedly leaked Cuban intelligence showed that spies at MIA had stolen security codes and other confidential information.
Then-MIA Director Lester Sola downplayed the documents’ credibility. His predecessor, Emilio González, a retired colonel who once worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency, was less convinced of their inauthenticity and said they raised concerns, if authentic. Gonzalez’s predecessor, Jose Abreu, agreed, noting that “there are security-sensitive areas in the airport. There’s no question about that.”
Ralph Cutíe, MIA’s current Director, said Monday that as a Cuban American, the TSA’s actions “appalled” him.
CBS News’ “60 Minutes” last month featured a story on how espionage, including stealing and selling security secrets, is among Cuba’s most lucrative products and that spies working for the country are probably active today in numerous U.S. government agencies.
Miami-Dade Chief of Public Safety James Reyes, Levine Cava’s preferred candidate in the county’s crowded Sheriff’s race this year, said on X that he found it “offensive” as the son of a Cuban political prisoner that the TSA would allow Cuban officials into confidential MIA spaces.
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Cuba Confidential 
Good afternoon Chris,
This is defined by only a word, “treason” plain and simple. Even a person with a mental deficit will realize that this delegation is full of Cuban intelligence personnel and agents of influence. Moreover, I think that with 65 years of experience dealing with the Cuban regime, no one is naive not to know the integration of this delegation much less TSA. I am glad not to have applied for TSA, a couple of years ago.
How long would it take for the US policy makers to know that the Cuban regime is a great threat to democracy and the security of the United States of America?