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For priority targets. all alarm signals a Russian linguist who will actuslly listen in. The Castro regine has also used mass mllgration as a policy tool. There have been two major refugee crises which have posed a security threat to the U.S. In 19810. 125.000 Cubans came to the U.S. in the "Mariel BoaLlIft." In 199.1. another 32.000 Cubans left. Cuba by boat. and were picked up at sea by tie U.S. Coast Guard. In the Marie] crisis. the Cuban government encouraged crnininals anti mental patleids to leave. e.ausitg additional secur.y problems for the Unitetd States. The problem of dealing with t large infmix of refugees. whether criminal or not. gives Castro a weapon he can use to thraten the United States. Mass inigration represents a form of leverage Cas.tro ca li t to extract concossions from the US. on a numbeir of Issues. Cuba alsi has a dormant nuclear capability that. can threaten the United States.