{"id":52357,"date":"2023-01-07T21:59:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T02:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/former-high-ranking-us-official-who-spied-for-cuba-released-after-20-years-52357"},"modified":"2023-01-07T21:59:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T02:59:15","slug":"former-high-ranking-us-official-who-spied-for-cuba-released-after-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/former-high-ranking-us-official-who-spied-for-cuba-released-after-20-years-52357","title":{"rendered":"Former high-ranking US official who spied for Cuba released after 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Ana Belen Montes, a former high-ranking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/cuba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cuba analyst<\/a> at the Defense Intelligence Agency, was released from prison Friday after more than 20 years behind bars at a federal prison in Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Montes, 65, was released early after pleading guilty to\u00a0conspiring to commit espionage as part of a plea deal in 2002.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She admitted that she revealed the identities of four undercover U.S. agents in Cuba to Havana as well as other classified information, including U.S. surveillance of Cuban weapons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Montes, an American, is believed to have been recruited by Havana while she was working at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/justice-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justice Department\u2019s <\/a>Freedom of Information Office where she started at in 1979 and sought a job at DIA so she\u2019d be in a better position to share secrets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Havana would send Montes coded messages while she was working as a Cuba analyst starting in 1985 that she would translate on an encoder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was arrested in 2001 and could have been sentenced to death if found guilty at trial. The agents whose identities she revealed were not harmed, prosecutors said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I felt morally obligated to help the island defend itself from our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/foreign-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">efforts to impose our values<\/a> and our political system on it,&#8221; Montes said in her defense at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The judge said she had put the U.S. &#8220;as a whole&#8221; at risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Upon release, Montes faces five years of supervision, including having her internet activity monitored. She is also barred from government work unless given special permission.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/former-high-ranking-us-official-spied-cuba-released-20-years\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/former-high-ranking-us-official-spied-cuba-released-20-years <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ana Belen Montes, a former high-ranking Cuba analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency, was released from prison Friday after more than 20 years behind bars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-52357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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