Analyst Who Spied for Cuba Freed

Ex-Pentagon Intelligence
Analyst Who Spied for Cuba
Freed
January 08, 2023 2:03 AM Associated Press
A former U.S.defense intelligence analyst who
was convicted of spying for Cuba more than 20
years ago has been released from a federal
prison in Fort Worth, Texas.
Ana Belen Montes, 6 5, was released Friday
Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson Scott
Taylor said Saturday
Montes, an analyst for the U.S.Defense
Intelligence Agency, was arrested in September
2001 and charged with spying for Cuba.
Montes pleaded guilty in 2002 to conspiring to
commit espionage as part of a plea deal with
federal prosecutors and was sentenced to 25
years in prison
She acknowledged revealing the identities of
four undercover agents for the U.S. to Cuban
authorities and had faced a possible death
sentence if convicted
Federal prosecutors at the time said the four
agents whose identities she revealed were not
harmed.
U.S. prosecutors also accused Montes of
disclosing to Cuba secrets so sensitive they
could not be described publicly. Court records
said she provided documents that revealed
details about U.S. surveillance of Cuban
weapons.
Officials at the time said Montes was believed
to have been recruited by Cuban intelligence
when she worked in the Freedom of
Information office at the Justice Department
between 1979 and 1985 and was asked to seek
work at an agency that would provide more
useful information to Cuba.
She began working for the Defense Intelligence
Agency starting in 1985 and was considered a
top analyst on the Cuban military