Posted on 01/14/2023 11:54:16 AM PST by karpov
When Ana Belén Montes was arrested as a Cuban spy 10 days after Sept. 11, 2001, the people who knew her best couldn’t believe it. One college friend said such treachery didn’t seem true to Ana’s character. During their time at the University of Virginia, the pal wrote in a newspaper op-ed, “The only secret she ever gave us was her mother’s luscious flan recipe.” But not only was Montes a Cuban spy, she was “one of the most damaging spies in US history,” author Jim Popkin writes in “Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of America’s Most Famous Female Spy — and the Sister She Betrayed” (Hanover Square Press). (The book title refers to the FBI’s randomly generated code name for Ana.)
During her illustrious two-decade Washington career, Ana Montes shined at both her real job and her shadowy side hustle.
As an analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), she won citations and cash awards for her impeccable work in charge of the agency’s Cuba desk — colleagues even called her the “Queen of Cuba.”
But outside office hours, Montes shared her knowledge about American plans for Cuba — gleaned from classified US government documents — with the DGI, Castro’s intelligence agency. From 1984 to 2001, Ana would memorize secret documents on American policy before sharing the information over casual dinners with her Cuban handlers. Montes was literally given medals by the Cuban government for her undercover work (which they would take back for “safekeeping”), but as Montes regularly “dazzled” her US superiors with the quality of her work, no one was the wiser.
The Montes family had Puerto Rican roots, but Ana was born an American citizen in 1957 in Nuremberg, Germany, where her Army father was stationed.
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Yep. Should have been executed for treason. She contributed to the deaths of many Americans
Julius and Ethyl Rosenberg gave nuclear secrets to the USS forcing us to spend trillions of dollars on keeping track of the Red Army’s nuclear programs. Montez is a piss-ant spy.
Doubtless less damaging than Bill, Hillary, Hunter, and Joe.
Doubtless less damaging than Bill, Hillary, Hunter, and Joe.
No argument with that.
Our own legal policies have been far more detrimental to our country and society.
Sorry for the double post, Linix, ya know.
Sorry for the double post, Linix, ya know.
I doubled the other day due to a new mouse...
“ One college friend said such treachery didn’t seem true to Ana’s character”
Pretty much what you’re going for if you’re a spy.
To quote a much-missed conservative, they should have “assumed room temperature.”
She was released on January 6, 2023.
Released 8 days ago, currently living in Puerto Rico and — wit for it — lobbying against U.S. sanctions on Cuba.
I recall reading it here, and that’s why I wrote “should have achieved” in my earlier post.
Thank you for the heads up though.
I was happier not knowing. Thanks.
You talking about the Cuba that broke the back of the Italian Mafia in Havana and kicked out one of the most ruthless tin horn dictators in the Hemisphere, that Cuba? How we can call jumping into bed with fascist dictators fighting in the name of liberty is beyond me. The history of the US Intel community in Latin America is beyond disgust. Our record of assassinations and coups gave South and Central America all the reason it needed to embrace communism. Our medieval economic policies in the 3rd World gave them a reason to hate us. We made that bed, sleep well Kissinger & Co.
Holy cow. FR has vax-pushers, Zelensky worshippers, and now Castro sympathizers too?
If you think Castro overthrowing Batista was such a sweet deal for Cubans, please explain how Cuba was, after the revolution, transformed from a nation of immigrants to a nation of emigrants.
Bull. Henry Hopkins was.
Sick.
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