They'd look right at home strolling around Harvard Square.
Myers is the great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell and the grandson of Gilbert Grosvenor of National Geographic fame.
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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It probably took 30 years to catch them because the State Dept. is so full of Leftist traitors that this pair didn’t seem out of place, and the other pinkos wouldn’t turn them in anyway even if they publicly said “we’re spies.”
30 years.....lets see: neither Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, nor Bush 2 admins could catch these old Trotskyite, lefty, hippy amateur spies. Pitiful.
They'd look right at home strolling around Harvard Square.
Myers is the great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell and the grandson of Gilbert Grosvenor of National Geographic fame.
Unwritten, but assumed to be the NYT’s closing line: “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
They can now come out into the sunshine and get immunity from Obama.
Senator Joseph McCarthy had all these anti-American infiltrator’s pegged a long time ago. Think how many Soviets he outted and was totally vindicated by the Venona Project. Of course the liberal elites will never let that bag out of the bag...
“liberals” = communists/socialists = demise of America
Parachute them into Cuba.
Typical. In Whittaker Chambers’ book Witness, he marvels at the fact that most of the most hardened Communist spies in the State Dept were the comfortable, Harvard-educated products of old New England families with old money.
Well his mother was.
Well, they sure got careless. They just accepted someone else waltzing into the picture saying they were from Cuba without any continuity from their known contacts. If you’re going to play spy vs. spy, you don’t do stupid things like that.
(Glad, of course, they got caught.)
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