Errant US missile turns up in Havana

A US Hellfire missile has turned up in Cuba after going missing in a fiasco that has left US officials worried the technology may be shared with other countries, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Though the missile was not carrying a warhead, the alarming diversion while it was in transit from Europe has spurred US investigators to probe whether its arrival on the communist island was the result of criminal activity or merely a series of mistakes, according to the newspaper.

And despite a historic thaw in ties with Cuba over the past year, Washington has been unsuccessful in its push to get the missile back, the WSJ said, citing unnamed sources.