Ana Belen Montes ( born February 28, 1957 ) is a former US Department of Defense Intelligence Agency officer sentenced to 25 years in prison for spying for Cuba .
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Born at a military base in Germany in the family of an army psychologist. In 1979 she graduated from the University of Virginia , in 1988 she defended her thesis at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University . She worked at the US Department of Justice, then went to work for the US Department of Defense Intelligence Agency (RUMO). Since the 1990s, she has been a senior specialist at RUMO in Cuba.
September 20, 2001 was arrested by the FBI . In exchange for a guilty plea, the prosecutor's office agreed to demand not a death sentence for her, but a 25-year prison term. In 2002 she was sentenced to 25 years in prison. US Senator for the Democratic Party of the United States Bob Graham , who heads the Senate Intelligence Commission, said: "This case demonstrates that Cuba still continues to pose a threat to the United States" [1] .
Montes noted at the trial: “I obeyed the command of conscience, not the law. I consider the policy of our government towards Cuba to be cruel, unfair and deeply unfriendly. I considered myself morally responsible to help the island protect itself from our attempts to impose its value system and political system on it ” [2] .
See also
- Myers, Kendall
Sources
- ↑ An employee of US military intelligence admitted to spying for Cuba . NEWSru (March 20, 2002). Date of treatment August 13, 2010. Archived April 4, 2012.
- ↑ 25 years for spying for Cuba (Russian) , BBC (October 17, 2002). Circulation date May 1, 2019.