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Pentagon intelligence analyst accused of spying for Cuba
By PETE YOST T
The Associated Press
9/21/01 6:51 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Pentagon intelligence analyst who attended war
games conducted by the U.S. Atlantic Command in 1996 was charged Friday
with spying for Cuba.
Ana Belen Montes, an employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency,
transmitted a substantial amount of classified information to the Cuban
intelligence service, an FBI affidavit alleged.
Montes appeared before a U.S. magistrate in Washington and was charged
with conspiracy to deliver U.S. national defense information to Cuba.
She entered no plea and was ordered held without bond.
Montes has worked for the DIA, the intelligence arm of the Defense
Department, since 1985, authorities said.
In a 17-page affidavit, the FBI alleged that earlier this year Montes
contacted the Cuban intelligence service via shortwave radio.
The FBI secretly entered Montes' residence under a court order May 25
and uncovered information about several Defense Department issues,
including a 1996 war games exercise conducted by the U.S. Atlantic
Command.
According to the affidavit, the DIA said that Montes attended the war
games exercise in Norfolk, Va., as part of her official duties at DIA.
The FBI said it found information on the hard drive of her laptop
computer.
One partially recovered message deals with "a particular special access
program related to the national defense of the United States," which is
so sensitive that it could not be publicly revealed in the court
documents, the document said.
According to the FBI's affidavit, some of the messages suggested that
Montes disclosed the upcoming arrival of a U.S. military intelligence
officer in Cuba.
"As a result," the FBI said, "the Cuban government was able to direct
its counterintelligence resources against the U.S. officer."
The FBI said Montes got a message back from her Cuban handlers stating,
"We were waiting here for him with open arms."
One message from her found on the hard drive was from her Cuban
intelligence service handler said that she had provided "tremendously
useful ... information."
Another message from her Cuban contact said in regard to the 1996 war
games exercise: "Practically everything that takes place there will be
of intelligence value. Let's see if it deals with contingency plans and
specific targets in Cuba."
The DIA confirmed that Montes and a colleague were briefed on the highly
sensitive program on May 15, 1997.
The FBI said they had Montes under surveillance since May.
A DIA spokesman declined to comment beyond saying when Montes had gone
to work for the agency.
The DIA, based at Bolling Air Force Base in southeast Washington, D.C.,
provides analyses of foreign countries' military capabilities and troop
strengths for Pentagon planners. It also has offices within the
Pentagon. Along with the CIA, National Security Agency and the National
Reconnaissance Office, the DIA is one of the main agencies of the U.S.
intelligence community.
The spokesman declined to say whether Montes worked at the Pentagon or
at Bolling Air Force Base.
In June, Mariano Faget, a U.S. immigration official convicted of
disclosing classified information to aid Cuba, was sentenced to five
years in prison.
Faget, once the second-ranking immigration official in Miami, was
convicted after an investigation that also lead to the expulsion of a
Cuban spy.
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