Posted on 06/05/2009 3:47:25 PM PDT by STARWISE
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. Walter Kendall Myers retired from the State Department in October 2007.
Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn Myers, were charged with conspiracy to act as illegal agents of the Cuban government, providing classified information to that government, and wire fraud, according to court documents unsealed in Washington.
The couple appeared briefly Friday before a federal magistrate in Washington, who ordered them held without bail pending a detention hearing Wednesday. Judge John Facciolo agreed with prosecutors that the couple might try to flee the country if not held.
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Court documents say the Myerses spent an evening in 1995 visiting with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
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30 YEARS .. undetected ???
that oughta put a definite kink in obama’s attempt to normalize relations with cuba.
Shoddy pieces of work
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Earlier article said the wife was Congressional staff. Who did she work for?????
Bolton was right about Cuban spies. I wonder what Torricelli and Menendez are thinking right now?
Ain’t this a pair to draw to...??
And just look what they accomplished in Cuba!
Not as shocking as the fact that they succeeded...Look what’s in the Whitey House...
The Cuban American Community is very unhappy. If Gwen worked for anyone in Congress they will find out and expose everyone they can!
I love the south Florida Cuban community. They are some of the BEST Americans!
Get ‘em convicted and take their government pensions.
They can go live out their remaining years in their beloved Communist Paradise, where all their wants and needs will be taken care of.
TEST MESSAGE
Let them experience what many thousands of Cubans have had to. Drop them in the middle of the Gulf Stream and let them swim!
The government said that Gwendolyn Myers revealed to investigators that her favorite places to pass information were Washington-area grocery stores.
He applied for a position at the CIA in 1981. He didn’t get the job but later was able to get work at the State Department, where his security clearance rose over the next two decades.
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Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers
Or 30 years under surveillance? Undetected seems more plausible Just wondering how they found out now? My guess, a Cuban mole who recently either died or got clear of Cuba.
Sounds like our government is mad because they retired and now they have to find someone else to pass information on.
Have been searching everywhere. Yet to see who this Cuban spy witch worked for on the Hill.
The media seems reluctant to tell us. Which tells us EVERYTHING.
On my facebook page, I called them Obama fundraisers. :)
I have a note off to my Cuban friends down in Miami! I can tell you they are NOT HAPPY! They smell blood in the water!
Thank you for this. Can you please explain more on the feelings of your friends down in Miami. I love the Cuban people in Florida. They are freedom loving Americans to the core.
Viva Elian. We will NEVER forget.
I would bet these two communist Democrats were "detected" long ago. When a mole or spy is detected, a window of opportunity opens for a disinformation campaign. Intelligence jiu jitsu. The exact date the spies were detected will not be revealed, thereby (hopefully) assuring that the recipient of the classified information can never be sure when that classified information lost its reliability.
As for arresting these two communist Democrats, why bother? - - Sheesh, somebody may as well jail the whole foul, stinking State Department.
And what’s with the possibility of being jailed for ONLY 35 years? Granted they would be more than 100 years old when released, but come on! This is treason, and they should be treated as traitors traditionally were handled, at the end of a noose.
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