Ex-Pentagon Intelligence Agent Who Spied for Cuba Freed of Prison

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) – Former U.S. Defense Intelligence Analyst Convicted of Espionage Over 20 Years Ago for Cuba Has Been Freed From Fort Worth, Texas.

Ana Belen Montes federal prison, 65, released Friday, Federal Bureau from Prisons spokesperson Scott Taylor said Saturday.

Montes, an analyst U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, arrested in 2001 September and charged with espionage Cuba.

Montes Pleaded guilty to conspiracy to conduct espionage in a 2002 plea deal with federal prosecutors and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

She admits to disclosing the identities of four undercover U.S. agents to Cuban authorities and could face the death penalty if convicted.

Federal Prosecutors said at the time that the four agents she identified were not injured.

us. Prosecutors also charged Montes that the leaked secrets were too sensitive to be described publicly. Cuba Records indicate that she presented documents at the Court office detailing U.S. surveillance of Cuban weapons

Officials between 1979 and 1985 and was asked to seek employment at an agency that would provide ( *) More useful information is considered to be Montes the military’s top analyst. Cuban
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