Posted on 06/05/2009 4:35:13 PM PDT by kellynla
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department charged Friday that a former State Department analyst and his wife worked as spies for Cuba for nearly 30 years, using a short-wave radio to pass secret diplomatic information to their Cuban handlers.
Officials said the couple, Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and Gwendolyn S. Myers, 71, received little in the way of compensation from the Cubans except for the short-wave radio and some travel expenses. Rather, the officials said, the couple appears to have been driven by their strong affinity for Cuba and their bitterness toward “American imperialism.”
“We think they did it because they love Cuba,” said a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case.
The State Department said that it would be conducting reviews into the case to determine what damage may have been done and how internal security measures might be improved. David Kris, the assistant attorney general for national security at the Justice Department, called the Myers’ activity for Cuba “incredibly serious.”
The Myers, who live in Washington, were arrested on Thursday and charged in a grand jury indictment unsealed Friday with serving as illegal agents of the Cuban government and wire fraud. A defense lawyer declined comment on the charges.
The case has been under investigation for three years, but it intensified two months ago, when an undercover agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, posing as a Cuba agent, approached Mr. Myers on a street here with a cigar and birthday greetings from Cuba. That led to a series of meetings in which the Justice Department said that Mr. Myers and his wife made incriminating admissions about their decades-long work for Cuba.
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Any pictures of what these turds looked like?
Any picture of 70 year old, pony tailed male hippy with she hag earth mother type will do.
wait... ‘American imperialism’ ??? if that were the case, we would have steamrolled cuba decades ago. instead, all we did was blacklist the country economically.
seriously, get over it. castro and others like him are just upset that they were kicked out of the business market the rest of the world is using.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265860/posts
Repeat.
They kept OFF THE NET.
We may eventually see some pictures but it will be after they are properly debriefed and tortured.
Remember, this is the Obama regime, and these two just gave up 30 years of espionage on behalf of Fidel Castro. You think Obama is going to take that sort of betrayal lying down? He OWES Fidel ~ Big Time.
I've challenged her several times since then to put her talk into action and move there, but for some reason she's remained typical of the species: generous with her criticism but unable to back it up.
Just another example of "talk is cheap".
Those who can do, those who can't teach, and those who can't teach become politicians. She's a "teacher".
It took that long to get down to the M’s in the list of traitors
at state. In another 10 years they’ll get down to “p” and find
valerie plame.
On the other hand these guy’s may be good friends of Eric Holder, i.e., FALN, Black Panthers and all the rest.
Eric didn’t know them. Remember, Fidel is just evil, not stupid, and he has no respect for people like Eric Holder. He knows a lapdog when he sees one.
“and their bitterness toward “American imperialism.”
Sounds like obummer and the “white” branch of his family. I’m convinced that his mother and grandparents were communists.
Anyone want to bet they aren’t Democrats?
From the so called colorful language the grandmother used about race, I was guessing she's either a Rodham or Clinton.
Wonder what the voter registration rolls will show???
Did they work for a McClatchy Florida paper in their spare time?
My country, left or wrong?
There is a photo of a couple on Fox news site. i do not know if it is the Myers, though.
That's like the young liberal who once told me sneeringly that all those people who fled Castro's Cuba (on rickety rafts and other improvised craft, across shark-infested waters) were "the rich."
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