Ex-Pentagon intelligence analyst who spied for Cuba freed
Published:Sunday | January 8, 2023 | 11:02 AM
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A former United States defence intelligence analyst who was convicted of spying for Cuba more than 20 years ago has been released from a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas.
Ana Belen Montes, 65, was released Friday, Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Scott Taylor said Saturday.
Montes, an analyst for the US Defense Intelligence Agency, was arrested in September 2001 and charged with spying for Cuba.
Montes pleaded guilty in 2002 to conspiring to commit espionage as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
She acknowledged revealing the identities of four undercover agents for the US to Cuban authorities and had faced a possible death sentence if convicted.
Federal prosecutors at the time said the four agents whose identities she revealed were not harmed.
US prosecutors also accused Montes of disclosing to Cuba secrets so sensitive they could not be described publicly. Court records said she provided documents that revealed details about US surveillance of Cuban weapons.
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