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Article: FBI charges analyst with spying for Cuba.(A)(Nation)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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Byline: Jerry Seper
The FBI yesterday arrested a longtime Defense Department intelligence analyst on charges of delivering classified U.S. national defense secrets to Cuba over the past five years.
Ana Belen Montes, 44, who has worked as an analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency since 1985, was arrested by FBI agents at her office at the DIA's headquarters at Bolling Air Force Base. Prosecutors could seek the death penalty or life in prison for spying for the communist state.
A criminal complaint from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington said Mrs. Montes "conspired to communicate, deliver and transmit to the government of Cuba and ...