[iwar] [fc:Intelligence.Analyst.Accused.of.Spying.for.Cuba]

From: Fred Cohen (fc@all.net)
Date: 2001-09-21 22:54:20


Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2205-1001138060-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com>
Delivered-To: fc@all.net
Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 21 Sep 2001 22:55:13 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (qmail 9646 invoked by uid 510); 22 Sep 2001 05:54:46 -0000
Received: from n31.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.81) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 22 Sep 2001 05:54:46 -0000
X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2205-1001138060-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com
Received: from [10.1.4.55] by hp.egroups.com with NNFMP; 22 Sep 2001 05:54:20 -0000
X-Sender: fc@big.all.net
X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com
Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_2_2); 22 Sep 2001 05:54:20 -0000
Received: (qmail 53716 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2001 05:54:20 -0000
Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 22 Sep 2001 05:54:20 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 22 Sep 2001 05:54:20 -0000
Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id WAA04379 for iwar@onelist.com; Fri, 21 Sep 2001 22:54:20 -0700
Message-Id: <200109220554.WAA04379@big.all.net>
To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List)
Organization: I'm not allowed to say
X-Mailer: don't even ask
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1]
From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net>
Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com
Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com
Precedence: bulk
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 22:54:20 -0700 (PDT)
Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [iwar] [fc:Intelligence.Analyst.Accused.of.Spying.for.Cuba]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Intelligence Analyst Accused of Spying for Cuba


By Bill Miller and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, September 21, 2001; 6:12 PM

The Defense Intelligence Agency's senior analyst for matters involving
Cuba was arrested at her office Friday and accused of providing
classified information about military exercises and other sensitive
operations to the Cuban government. 

Ana Belen Montes, 44, of Northwest Washington, was on the U.S. 
government's payroll but really was working for the Cuban Intelligence
Service, prosecutors said.  The FBI, which had been tailing Montes for
months, surprised her at work Friday morning at Bolling Air Force base
and charged her with conspiracy to commit espionage. 

A few hours later, Montes sat silently in U.S.  District Court as
prosecutors said she "knowingly compromised national defense
information" and harmed the United States.  A magistrate judge ordered
her jailed without bond pending a hearing on Wednesday.  He also placed
Montes on a suicide watch but did not publicly provide a reason. 

"This is a clandestine agent for the Cuban Intelligence Service," said
Assistant U.S.  Attorney Ronald L.  Walutes Jr.  "This has been going on
for quite some time."

The Defense Intelligence Agency is the analytical arm of the nation's
various intelligence services and is staffed by members of the armed
forces as well as career civilians.  Montes joined the DIA in 1985 and
began specializing in Cuban matters seven years later.  As DIA's senior
analyst for Cuba, Montes would have dealt regularly with Cuba watchers
from others in the U.S.  intelligence community, most particularly from
the CIA and the Intelligence and Research Bureau of the State
Department. 

"It is very serious," a senior intelligence official said Friday, adding
"it is still too early to say how much damage she may have done." He
pointed out, however, that once information she may have passed went to
Cuba, "we would not rule out that it was passed to other foreign
governments."

© 2001 The Washington Post Company

------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~-->
Get your FREE VeriSign guide to security solutions for your web site: encrypting transactions, securing intranets, and more!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/XrFcOC/m5_CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM
---------------------------------------------------------------------~->

------------------
http://all.net/ 

Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : 2001-09-29 21:08:47 PDT