http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/06/200965195138844518.html
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Saturday, June 06, 2009
00:03 Mecca time, 21:03 GMT
US accuses pair of spying for Cuba
The pair are accused of meeting Fidel Castro, the former
Cuban president, in Cuba [AFP]
A retired US state department worker with top secret security clearance
and his wife have been charged with spying for Cuba.
The US justice department said Walter Myers, 72, and his wife Gwendolyn
Myers, 71, had been clandestine agents for Cuba for 30 years.
The couple are accused of travelling to meet Fidel Castro, the former
Cuban president, in Cuba in 1995, to receive a medal for their activities,
travelling through Mexico under false names.
Kendall Myers worked at the state department's Foreign Service Institute,
where he specialised in European issues, before retiring in 2007.
The charges say, he viewed more than 200 intelligence reports related to
Cuba in his last year of employment.
Shortwave transmissions
According to court documents, the two were recruited in 1979 by a Cuban
official who directed Walter Myers to pursue a job at either the State
Department or the CIA.
The couple allegedly received coded messages from Cuba via shortwave
radio, and Gwendolyn Myers, who worked as a analyst at a local bank, would pass
on information by changing shopping carts in shops, the department said.
The couple also allegedly travelled all over South America and the
Caribbean to meet with Cuban agents
Both were charged with conspiracy to act as illegal agents of the Cuban
government and with communicating classified information to the Cuban
government, the justice department said.
They were also charged with wire fraud and acting as an illegal agent.
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