Freedom House Despite its long history of aggressive international espionage, especially against the large Cuban community in the United States, Freedom House found an absence of clear cases of transnational repression emanating from Cuba. Mobility controls, especially control over the ability to exit Cuba, have long been a tool of the regime; in a trend illustrating something of the inverse, dissidents are sometimes forced into exile after they emerge from prison, taken by authorities directly to the airport and flown off to Europe or elsewhere.344 Under the Trump administration, the US government showed renewed concern about espionage and recruitment among exiles.345 However, Freedom House research did not find cases of physical transnational attacks on Cuban exiles by the Cuban government in the time period under review. freedomhouse.org 53