In the United States, after more than 20 years in prison, one of the most famous spies of the Cold War, Ana Montes, was released earlier than expected. You have been accused of having provided Cuba with the data of four American spies, as well as other classified information.
When Montez, a Puerto Rican U.S. citizen, was 45, she was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Montes, 65, pleaded guilty in 2002 to conspiracy to commit espionage after she was accused of using her senior position as a member of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to leak information.
Montes joined DIA in 1985 and quickly rose to become the chief analyst for Cuba. At the time, Montes was receiving coded messages from Havana over shortwave radio, which he typed into a laptop equipped with a decoder to be translated into text, according to prosecutors.
At the sentencing, Montes said the US policy towards Cuba was cruel and unjust, so he obeyed his conscience.
“I felt a moral obligation to help the island defend itself against our attempts to impose our values and political system on it”, – she said.
