Posted on 12/19/2006 8:16:03 PM PST by indcons
A Florida professor admitted Tuesday he had been a Cuban spy for nearly 30 years, and his wife -- also a professor -- admitted she knew of his conduct, authorities said.
Both Carlos Alvarez and his wife Elsa pleaded guilty to lesser charges in federal court in Miami.
The couple entered their pleas as part of a deal to avoid a jury trial on previous charges of being Cuban agents who failed to register with the U.S. government, the Miami Herald reported Tuesday.
The more serious offense could have put the couple in prison for a decade, the paper said.
A psychology professor at Florida International University, Alvarez faces up to five years in prison for conspiracy to become an unregistered foreign agent.
Elsa Alvarez, who also worked at the university, faces up to three years in prison for concealing her husband's participation in that conspiracy.
The two are scheduled to be sentenced February 27.
When arrested in January, federal prosecutors said the FBI had covertly monitored Alvarez' ongoing communications with the Cuban Intelligence Service.
Authorities said U.S. agents eavesdropped as Alvarez received sophisticated communications equipment from Cuban intelligence designed to keep his activities secret.
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I wonder how many other commie spies are in American universities. It's the perfect cover.
What the hell?
What about Desi Arnaz?
NY Times blew Paul Krugman's cover when it published his first article. The rest are just a reminder he's down with Fidel.
I'll bring the beer and lawn chairs. :)
"M203M4"...LOL
I guess I don't really need a rope if you show up.
Espionage/Spy Case:
Carlos Alvarez & Elsa Alvarez
Carlos Alvarez, PhD Elsa Alvarez, LCSW Arrested: Friday, 6 January 2006 Confessed to spying in June and July 2005 to FBI and NCIS
Friday, 6 January 2006 Confessed to spying in June and July 2005 to FBI and NCIS
Charges: Spying for Communist Cuba Acting as agents of Cuba's Directorate of Intelligence without registering with the US government.
The couple transmitted information about Miami's exile community -- including leading groups such as the Cuban American National Foundation and Brothers to the Rescue. No evidence of sending any military or classified information, but they did provide Cuban officials with the identity of an FBI employee who had once been an FIU student of Carlos Alvarez.
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College professor, Florida International University since 1974
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, Florida International University; Member, FIU's Program in Conflict Resolution and Consensus Building; Affiliate, Harvard University Program on International Conflict Analysis & Resolution; Co-Author, Ethnic Identity: Understanding Contemporary Perspectives. Gave a lecture at the University of Virginia on "Second Generation Cuban American Identity: The Impact of Diaspora on Identity"
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University Administrator, Florida International University since 1999
Coordinator in the social work training program, specializing in psychological treatment, crisis intervention and group psychotherapy
Waiting for Sen Patrick Leaky to start complaining about "warrantless wiretaps".
They face 3 years in prison?
Big woop!
How about espionage charges?
How about the gas chamber?
It would be delicious if they were sent to Club Gitmo. :)
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Carlos Alvarez, 61, a psychology professor at Florida International University.
Elsa Alvarez is a social worker in the university’s counseling center.
Carlos Alvarez had worked at the university since 1974 and has tenure. His wife has worked at the university since 1990. Riordan said that the university had no indication until Monday of anything unusual about either Alvarez.
The indictment released by the Department of Justice states that the couple reported to Cuban officials about actions of the anti-Castro movement in the United States and recruited “young people” of Cuban descent to be spies for the Castro government. The indictment and press release did not indicate whether these recruitment activities involved the couple’s university positions, but the Associated Press quoted federal prosecutors as saying that Carlos Alvarez had organized exchange trips to Cuba with the goal of indoctrinating students.
Lynne Stewart, Islamofascist scum and terrorist supporter extraordinaire, got away with less.
Was it espionage? I'm not sure about the wording of the law. All the article says is that they kept tabs on anti-Castro groups in Florida, with no claim that they obtained or sent any secrets. Every country, every embassy, has folks who do that sort of thing, and as far as I know it's legal, as long as you register as someone who's working for a foreign government.
Figures.
Can you imagine what would happen if the Cuban secret police discovered a professor in a Cuban university spying for the U.S., in possession of communications spy gear?
"Carlos Alvarez had worked at the university since 1974 and has tenure."
He has tenure, whoa boy ! That means he's, academically-speaking, a made guy.
Yup, they'd be fish food in the Bay of Pigs.
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