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'Deadly' double agent Ana Montes who was a US spy for communist Cuba freed from prison after 20 years
https://www.yahoo.com/news/deadly-double-agent-ana-montes-114121345.html ^ | 1-8-23 | Bethany Dawson

Posted on 01/08/2023 6:13:11 PM PST by ARGLOCKGUY

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1 posted on 01/08/2023 6:13:11 PM PST by ARGLOCKGUY
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

If shes one of the worst they should have made her serve all 25 years of her sentence. Frigging idiots.


2 posted on 01/08/2023 6:19:41 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

She should lose her citizenship, instead she will probably end up as a commentator on CNN


3 posted on 01/08/2023 6:45:35 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

When she was working a clerical job at the Department of Justice, Cuban authorities identified her as someone who would be sympathetic to their cause.


4 posted on 01/08/2023 6:46:16 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Ana Montes, a Cuban penetration agent inside the Defense Intelligence Agency, drafted a 1998 intelligence analysis that played down the threat from Cuba....


5 posted on 01/08/2023 6:48:45 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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The deepest and most damaging penetration of the U.S. Defense Department by an enemy agent in recent history was pulled off by a spy working for the terror-sponsoring, drug-smuggling Castro regime.

The spy’s name is Ana Belen Montes, known as “Castro’s Queen Jewel” in the intelligence community. In 2002 she was convicted of the same crimes as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and today she serves a 25-year sentence in Federal prison. Only a plea bargain spared her from sizzling in the electric chair like the Rosenbergs.

Promptly upon Montes’ conviction a Cuban spy named Gustavo Machin, who worked under diplomatic cover in Washington D.C. (and thus enjoyed “diplomatic immunity”) along with 14 of his KGB-trained Cuban colleagues, were all booted from the U.S..... -—— https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3553697/posts


6 posted on 01/08/2023 6:53:12 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

She seems like a perfect Dem candidate.


7 posted on 01/08/2023 6:53:13 PM PST by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: piasa; Fedora

Lots of info at the link I just posted... Obama had an interesting White House visitor.


8 posted on 01/08/2023 6:54:33 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

On what grounds was she released?! WHO gave the order for her release?

The article (and it’s sourced articles) are oddly quiet about that bit [Obama]


9 posted on 01/08/2023 7:16:46 PM PST by Skywise
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To: Vision

She fooled lie detectors by tightening her sphincter when answering the yes or no questions. It was a commonly known “hack” for subverting tests.

It’s an interesting case study, and there is quite a bit of written info and some documentaries out detailing the crimes, recognition, and capture.

She was very efficient at her craft.


10 posted on 01/08/2023 7:28:13 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

She was arrested on September 21, 2001, just 10 days after the 911 attacks on the US.


11 posted on 01/08/2023 8:22:14 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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There was an entire spy ring caught up with her, some 14 people. If I am not mistaken some of them were involved in an effort to sabotage the US power grid or at least power stations in Florida that supply MacDill, etc... and at the same time there were Islamic terrorists planning the same.
The Obama admin worked overtime trying to get those spies to Cuba, IIRC...


12 posted on 01/08/2023 8:26:55 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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...Interestingly, just days after the 9-11 terror attack, Castro’s KGB-founded and mentored intelligence mounted a major deception operation attempting to trip-up our investigation into the terrorist culprits, not that most of you ever heard about it from the mainstream media. So here:

“In the six months after the 9/11 attacks,” ran the Miami Herald investigative report, “up to 20 Cubans walked into U.S. embassies around the world and offered information on terrorism threats. Eventually, all were deemed to be Cuban intelligence agents and collaborators, purveying fabricated information. Two Cuba experts said spies sent by Cuba to the United States were part of a permanent intelligence program to mislead, misinform and identify U.S. spies” (emphasis added).... -—— From another thread on FR


13 posted on 01/08/2023 8:28:20 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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But Hernandez’ KGB-trained colleague Gustavo Machin made Hernandez’s unconditional release (along with that of three of his convicted Cuban spy-colleagues) part of the price Obama had to pay for the privilege of letting Cuba set up an elaborate spy center in Washington, D.C. this week [my note: mid July 2015... new Cuban embassy]....


14 posted on 01/08/2023 8:34:06 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

From another thread: ...The 0bama administration’s fetish to quickly and fully satisfy every whim of the Communist murderers of U.S. citizens reached Jerry Springer Show levels when—prior to his release— a specimen of Gerardo Hernandez semen was ferreted from his prison cell to Cuba. Hernandez and his wife, you see, were eager to add another Communist subject to the Castro-Family Kingdom but couldn’t quite figure out a workable procedure.

Fear not! Raul Castro rang his little bell and 0bama’s State Department. (Ben Rhodes in particular) quickly scurried over, smiling, bowing, eager to please...


15 posted on 01/08/2023 8:37:35 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

Wonderful. A new girlfriend for Swillwall.


16 posted on 01/08/2023 8:39:20 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Amerika! The whole world is watching and laughing their asses off. )
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just did.

On Dec. 9, (2009) Obama nominated Mari Del Carmen Aponte to be ambassador to El Salvador, despite the fact that in the late 1990s, the FBI discovered that she was working with Cuban intelligence officers. According to Insight Magazine, “When the FBI eventually questioned her about her involvement with Cuban intelligence, she reportedly refused to cooperate.”


17 posted on 01/08/2023 8:47:11 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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snip from another thread...

But Aponte’s past is one big red flag. From 1982 to 1994 Aponte lived with a man who worked closely with the Cuban Mission to the U.N. and allegedly was a spy.

Aponte claims her ties to the Cubans were just “social,” but Cuban spies working in the surveillance hotbed of New York don’t waste time on things “social.”

They trawl left-wing community groups for potential agents of influence, seeking ideological affinity and common interests. That’s how they recruited another Puerto Rican of similar background, Ana Montes, who was convicted of spying in 2002....


18 posted on 01/08/2023 8:49:27 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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—— Sleeping With The ... (Words fail me)
IBD Editorials ^ | December 20, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff
Posted on 8/20/2010, 8:56:27 PM by Kaslin


19 posted on 01/08/2023 8:50:25 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

Swalwell sez “holla back, girl”!


20 posted on 01/08/2023 8:50:27 PM PST by jdsteel (PA voters elected a stroke victim and a dead guy. Not a joke.)
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