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/
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