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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Robert Hanssen would argue otherwise.
And she was not hanged because???
Same reason they pardoned the Puerto Rican terrorists that attacked The Capitol in 1954.
Jonathan Pollard says, "Hold muh beer." That azz gave classified info to a government who knew how to use it.
Anytime I question how Israel is our ally, the only answer is to whine about anti Semitism.
When one intellectually does a cost/benefit analysis of our relationship, it’s far more of a cost.
Pollard, Hanssen, and Montes should have all achieved ambient temperature in prison.
should have all achieved ambient temperature in prison.
Such a polite way of saying “rot in jail”
Kudos to a wordsmith.
This commie bitch STILL is a pro-Cuba sympathizer. She should’ve been executed.
I see a bright new future for this traitor in DemoKKKrat politics. She will fit right in. AOC or has probably recruited her by now.
If I post the first thought in my mind, I’ll get banned.
Where is she now? I didn’t even know of her.
I knew of Mr. Hanssen.
We have not hanged a American spying/stealing secrets I believe since the Rosenbergs. In her case with the amount of years she was spying they likely wanted to continually interrogate her for more knowledge about her activities, what she gave, and the Cubans agents she worked with. At times it’s better for keeping them long term rather than anger and retaliation and providing them a quick trip with a knotted rope.
Ya, not even close....Hanssen and Aldrich Ames were much worse.
Stupid headline. Not even close.
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New York – Puerto Rican spy Ana Belén Montes withdrew her resquest for release from jail under Donald Trump´s administration, she is now beginning to think -with better mood-, about her eventual release, due in July 2023, according to her family spokeswoman.
She was released on January 6, 2023, after serving 20 years.[
John A. Walker says ‘hello grasshopper’.
FJB is getting close.
Maybe she will move to Cuba although now that they have no use for her, she would have to live like the other 99% poverty peasants. Traitor scum.
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