Article: An Improbable Spy?; Friends Old and New Stunned by Arrest Of Reserved, Frugal Defense Analyst

In Washington's world of top-level intelligence briefings, Ana Belen Montes was the go-to person on Cuba.

She told people how the communist nation worked.

But all the while, federal authorities say, the 44-year-old Defense Intelligence Agency analyst was telling Cuba just how the United States operated, from the identity of undercover agents sent to infiltrate the island to details on military exercises.

Today, Montes, held without bond since she was arrested at her Bolling Air Force Base office on Sept. 21, is due in U.S. District Court in Washington for a hearing on charges of conspiracy to deliver U.S. national defense information. The crime is punishable by death.

Yesterday, she was in ...

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