US Releases Ex-Pentagon Official Who Spied For Cuba From Prison After Two Decades

The US Bureau of Prisons confirmed to Reuters that officials have placed a senior federal official Friday in jail for more than two decades for providing information and identities Released from prison after being American.Cuba Leaked by some

Ana Belen Montes spies, 65, ex-Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to spy in 2002 and was sentenced to Montes 25 years Imprisonment, after prosecutors Montes used their identities to leak classified information and identities of four US spies to Havana.

The Associated Press wrote that court documents Montes show leaked documents detailing U.S. surveillance of Cuban weapons.

According to Reuters, Ricardo Urbina the sentencing judge determined that Montes endangered US citizens and “nation as a whole”.

Urbino said on her release from prison that Montes should be monitored and monitored for five years Internet visited and banned from cooperating with the government and contacting foreign agents without permission.

The Associated Press reported Montes was released from federal prison at Fort Worth, Texas.

Montes and at sentencing she said sch she believed in good conscience that US policy towards Cuba was cruel and unfair.

“I felt morally obligated to help the island defend itself from our efforts to impose our values and our political system on it,” she said aloudReuters.

RetiredFBI agentPeter LappleadThe Miami Herald reporteda covert operation to extractMontecomputer contents, she said she also had information about America’s secret satellite programCubapassing confidential information.

“That was the most damaging non-human intelligence she provided to the Cubans and likely to other adversaries,” Lapp say The Miami Herald. “And I found it.”

Lapp and journalist Kelly Kennedy, co-author of the forthcoming book “Queen of Cuba: The Inside Story on How the Perfect Spy Evaded Detection for 17 Years. ”

He, said he believed Montes strongly opposed Cuba espionage Americanism because the information they leaked to foreign officials did not necessarily have Instead, it helped protectCuba, it helped a formerCuban revolutionary presidentFidel Castro gain insider knowledge in order to trade with other enemies of the United States for their own benefit.

“She is anti-American; she hates our country,”,He said. “Cuba was just the conduit of that hate.”

Montes is a U.S. citizen of Puerto Rican descent who began working as an analyst at the DIA in 1985 and became the agency’s top Cuba analyst.

Author Jim Popkin, wrote Montes in his book “Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America’s Most Dangerous Female Spy―and the Sister She Betrayed,”, said ABC News his family thought they would move to Puerto Rico.

“She served her time and [is] free,” Popkin, she spoke to her family, said. “She’ll have the opportunity to rebuild her life,” Consider adding large communities in Puerto Rico Montes “a hero and, in some cases, a martyr.”