{"id":1799297,"date":"2023-01-08T20:04:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T01:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1799297"},"modified":"2023-01-08T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T01:05:00","slug":"u-s-releases-ex-pentagon-official-who-spied-for-cuba-from-prison-after-two-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-releases-ex-pentagon-official-who-spied-for-cuba-from-prison-after-two-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"US Releases Ex-Pentagon Official Who Spied For Cuba From Prison After Two Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-releases-ex-pentagon-official-who-spied-for-cuba-from-prison-after-two-decades%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1799297&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The US Bureau of Prisons confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/cuba-spy-ana-belen-montes-released-after-20-years-behind-bars-2023-01-07\/\">Reuters<\/a> 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<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press wrote that court documents Montes show leaked documents detailing U.S. surveillance of Cuban weapons. <\/p>\n<p>According to Reuters, Ricardo Urbina the sentencing judge determined that Montes endangered US citizens and \u201cnation as a whole\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/politics-cuba-government-prisons-4ae7a19962520edbd043ce06287bb8c0\">reported<\/a> Montes was released from federal prison at Fort Worth, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Montes and at sentencing she said sch she believed in good conscience that US policy towards Cuba was cruel and unfair. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt morally obligated to help the island defend itself from our efforts to impose our values and our political system on it,\u201d she said aloudReuters.<\/p>\n<p>RetiredFBI agentPeter LappleadThe Miami Herald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/americas\/cuba\/article270308667.html\">reported<\/a>a covert operation to extractMontecomputer contents, she said she also had information about America&#8217;s secret satellite programCubapassing confidential information. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the most damaging non-human intelligence she provided to the Cubans and likely to other adversaries,\u201d Lapp say The Miami Herald. \u201cAnd I found it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lapp and journalist Kelly Kennedy, co-author of the forthcoming book \u201cQueen of Cuba: The Inside Story on How the Perfect Spy Evaded Detection for 17 Years. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is anti-American; she hates our country,\u201d,He said. \u201cCuba was just the conduit of that hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s top Cuba analyst. <\/p>\n<p>Author Jim Popkin, wrote Montes in his book \u201cCode Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America\u2019s Most Dangerous Female Spy\u2015and the Sister She Betrayed,\u201d, said <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/ana-montes-former-us-defense-analyst-arrested-spying\/story?id=96297793\">ABC News<\/a> his family thought they would move to Puerto Rico. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe served her time and [is] free,\u201d Popkin, she spoke to her family, said. \u201cShe\u2019ll have the opportunity to rebuild her life,\u201d Consider adding large communities in Puerto Rico Montes \u201ca hero and, in some cases, a martyr.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Bureau of Prisons confirmed to Reuters that officials released a high-ranking federal official from prison Friday after serving over two decades for leaking information and identities of some American spies to Cuba. 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