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Article: Analyst Charged With Spying for Cuba; Woman Passed Classified Information on Military Exercises, FBI Says
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- The Washington Post
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- September 23, 2001
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The Defense Intelligence Agency's senior analyst for matters
involving Cuba was arrested at her office yesterday and accused of
providing classified information about military exercises and other
sensitive operations to the Cuban government.
Federal prosecutors said Ana Belen Montes, 44, of Northwest
Washington, was working for the Cuban intelligence service while on
the U.S. government payroll. The FBI, which had been tailing Montes
for months, surprised her at work yesterday morning at Bolling Air
Force Base and charged her with conspiracy to deliver U.S. national
defense information to Cuba, a capital offense.
A few hours later, Montes sat silently in U.S. District Court as
prosecutors ...