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[Moonman62]

I wonder how many other commie spies are in American universities. It's the perfect cover.

[I got the rope]

What the hell?

[LdSentinal]

What about Desi Arnaz?

[RonDog]

From cicentre.com:

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

[magellan]

"Authorities said U.S. agents eavesdropped as Alvarez received sophisticated communications equipment from Cuban intelligence designed to keep his activities secret."

Waiting for Sen Patrick Leaky to start complaining about "warrantless wiretaps".

[Redbob]

"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,..."

They face 3 years in prison?
Big woop!

How about espionage charges?

How about the gas chamber?

[kcvl]

http://www.local10.com/2006/0109/5957714_240X180.jpg


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.

[GVnana]

psychology professor at Florida International University

Figures.

[Brad from Tennessee]

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?

[Dimez Apart]

Hang him, Imprison her for about twenty years. Seems fair to me.

[ApplegateRanch]

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.

Doesn't this put the original charges in the category of 'unregistered foreign lobbyist', rather than espionage? And it STILL gets bargained down from there?!?

I guess we have a shortage of walls and bullets.

[SkyPilot]

We used to hang spies.

Now we coddle them.

[The G Man]

One guess what his political affiliation is in the US.

[SIDENET]

Commies in the universities?

What a shock.

[Hot Tabasco]

I'm curious, what does a Cuban spy spy on if he's only a psychology professor?