Cuba: the American spies who loved them
source: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2086-NY-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m6d5-Cuba-the-Americ...
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Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and his wife Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, 71, were arrested in Washington DC by the FBI yesterday and were indicted on Friday by a U.S district court as having worked as spies for the Cuban government for 30 years. According to an AP report, the indictment seeks the return of all $1.7 million Kendall Myers earned in his State Department career, along with his $174,867 rollover IRA account. Walter Myers is a former State Department Official, and his wife is a former bank analyst. They apparently received little compensation from the Cubans for their clandestine activities, and according to statements made, expressed 'love' for Cuba, its revolution and its leader, Fidel Castro, whom Myers described as a 'brilliant and charismatic leader' and 'one of the great political leaders of our time'. They did meet the Cuban leader during one of their trips to the island nation in 1995. Myers also had a particular distaste for the United States, which he called 'exploiters who regularly murdered Cuban revolutionary leaders'.
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- Cuba
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- Espionage, Cuba, US Foreign Policy, cuban embargo
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