Rome - Cuba has denied a Spanish press report that a spy microphone had been discovered in a residence to be used by Pope John Paul II when he visits Cuba next week.
The Cuban ambassador to the Vatican, Mr Hermes Herrera Hernandez, commenting on the El Pais report, told a news conference that the pope would be staying exclusively at the nuncio's residence in Havana during his January 21st25th visit, returning there each evening.
El Pais said the microphone had been found by church authorities in an ecclesiastical residence in a city outside Havana where the pope was to have rested.
