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Article: Pentagon Intelligence Analyst Accused of Spying for Cuba -- FBI claims woman moved great amount
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A Pentagon intelligence analyst who attended
war games conducted by the U.S. Atlantic Command in 1996 was charged
Friday with spying for Cuba.
Ana Belen Montes, an employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency,
transmitted a substantial amount of classified information to the
Cuban intelligence service, an FBI affidavit alleged.
Montes appeared before a U.S. magistrate in Washington and was
charged with conspiracy to deliver U.S. national defense information
to Cuba. She entered no plea and was ordered held without bond.
Montes has worked for the DIA, the intelligence arm of the
Defense Department, since 1985, authorities said.
In a 17-page affidavit, the ...