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Article: Spy for Cuba Sentenced to 25 Years
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- The Washington Post
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- October 17, 2002
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Ana Belen Montes, the daughter of an Army psychologist who grew up
to be the most adept Cuban spy to infiltrate the U.S. military, was
sentenced to 25 years in prison yesterday, a somber end to a stealthy
career of espionage in the nation's capital.
Montes, 45, the former senior analyst for Cuban affairs for the
Defense Intelligence Agency, told U.S. District Judge Ricardo M.
Urbina that she was motivated by a love of Cuba and a loathing of
U.S. policy toward the impoverished island nation. She was never paid
anything but her expense money, according to prosecutors.
"I obeyed my conscience rather than the law," Montes said at the
courtroom podium, wearing a striped, black-and-white prison ...