After pleading guilty to spying for Cuba in 2002, a former high-ranking U.S. official was released from prison Friday. Ana Belen Montes started spying for Havana in the 1980s.
Former CIA station chief Dan Hoffman provides professional analysis of the Hawaiian couple that was suspected to be Russian spies on ‘Fox & Friends Weekend.’at the Defense Intelligence Agency, was released from prison Friday after more than 20 years behind bars at a federal prison in Texas.
Montes, 65, was released early after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit espionage as part of a plea deal in 2002. 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. Freedom of Information Office where she started at in 1979 and sought a job at DIA so she’d be in a better position to share secrets. Havana would send Montes coded messages while she was working as a Cuba analyst starting in 1985 that she would translate on an encoder.
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. and our political system on it," Montes said in her defense at the time. 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.
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