Ex-State official, wife accused of spying for Cuba

[Chris]

Ex-State official, wife accused of spying for Cuba

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A 72-year-old former State Department employee and his 71-year-old wife have been arrested and charged with illegally aiding the government of Cuba for nearly 30 years, the Department of Justice announced Friday.

The court documents say the couple disclosed that they had received coded messages via shortwave radio, had met with Cuban agents in Mexico and had been carefully watching for any sign of U.S. surveillance.

An affidavit released by the court said Kendall Myers had first traveled to Cuba in 1978, and Cuban intelligence then began to develop him as a Cuban agent. Six months later, Myers and his wife agreed to work for the Cuban service.

After the April 15 meeting, the Myerses are said to have agreed to provide the undercover agent with information on the April 17-19 Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, which President Obama attended.

Kendall Myers confided to the undercover agent that he had received a "lot of medals" from the Cuban government for his work and that he and his wife spent an evening with Fidel Castro in 1995.

The affidavit quotes Kendall Myers as telling the agent that he typically removed information from the State Department by memory or by taking notes -- although he did occasionally take some documents home -- and had delivered information that was classified "secret."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/06/05/us.cuba.spies/

[rich_t]

Treason is still punishable by death right?

[Baruch Menachem]

Not with 0bama in charge.   Now treason gets you a promotion and a corner office.


Of course, sometimes you have to go with the flow.  I read a book about the Verona program, which was where we were able, because of Soviet sloppiness, to decode Russian coded transmissions back.   It became obvious that a certain high official in the administration, name of Alger Hiss, was a soviet spy, but the evidence for this was a program that we, for obvious reasons, didn't want to tell anyone about.  So he was given a promotion to a department which was subsequently eliminated.  One of the very few departments that ever was eliminated.  Which is why when the big stink caused by Whittiker Chambers came around, he was no longer in government service.    It was very nice of him to get himself jailed, as the only evidence we had about him was to secret to tell anyone about.