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DIA fears Cuban mole aided Russia, China
washtimes ^ | 2/1/2003 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 01/31/2003 11:07:02 PM PST by TLBSHOW

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:00:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

DIA senior intelligence analyst Ana Belen Montes originally came under suspicion of being a spy for Cuba's communist government in 1994. However, DIA and FBI counterspies could not prove she was engaging in espionage and Montes continued passing secrets to Havana until she was discovered in late 1999.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: 1985; 1995; 2001; annabelenmontes; barbara; belen; castrowatch; china; cuba; cubanspies; cuis; dia; espionage; intelligenceanalyst; kviele; martamrita; montes; russia; september2001; stockholm; sweden; usaid; velazquez; waspnetwork

1 posted on 01/31/2003 11:07:03 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: TLBSHOW
Great find..........

This story has not caught much attention, or has been suppressed.

DIA must have a very thin skin.

2 posted on 01/31/2003 11:13:38 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: snopercod; harpseal; brityank; tangofox
Bump.
3 posted on 01/31/2003 11:50:19 PM PST by First_Salute
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To: First_Salute; TLBSHOW
Overview:
"Her family is devastated, her reputation is ruined, and her money and all that is gone,'' said an old friend, who insisted on anonymity.

It is no ordinary family. Montes has a brother who works for the FBI in the Atlanta area and a sister who is a translator for the FBI in South Florida. The sister helped bring down a large Cuban spy ring, the so-called Wasp Network, last year.


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Ana Montes graduated from the University of Virginia in 1979 with a degree in foreign affairs. She moved to Washington, D.C., where she enrolled in 1982 in a two-year master's degree program at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She focused on Latin America. Her degree was not awarded until 1988.

While she was studying, Montes got a clerical job at the Department of Justice that required a security clearance. She moved to the Defense Intelligence Agency as a junior analyst, focusing on Nicaragua, in September 1985.

By then, she already was a spy for Cuba.

4 posted on 02/01/2003 5:21:24 AM PST by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional.)
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To: brityank
This sure explains alot of what Janet Reno was doing, were they "friends".

Sending a small child back to "hell"

No investigating communist "RED" China campagin funds

It seems everytime "Communist" gain it gets traced right back to a mole.
5 posted on 02/01/2003 5:32:39 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: First_Salute; TLBSHOW
Statement by Ana Belen Montes -- The Miami Herald - Oct. 16, 2002

'An Italian proverb perhaps best describes the fundamental truth I believe in: `All the world is one country.' In such a 'world-country,' the principle of loving one's neighbor as much as oneself seems, to me, to be the essential guide to harmonious relations between all of our ''nation-neighborhoods.'' This principle urges tolerance and understanding for the different ways of others. It asks that we treat other nations the way we wish to be treated -- with respect and compassion. It is a principle that, tragically, I believe we have never applied to Cuba.

``Your honor, I engaged in the activity that brought me before you because I obeyed my conscience rather than the law."

Just like 90+% of the rest of the minions inside the Beltway.
6 posted on 02/01/2003 5:36:04 AM PST by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional.)
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To: wirestripper; Cincinatus' Wife
DIA senior intelligence analyst Ana Belen Montes originally came under suspicion of being a spy for Cuba's communist government in 1994.

However, DIA and FBI counterspies could not prove she was engaging in espionage and Montes continued passing secrets to Havana until she was discovered in late 1999.

Were any spies caught and prosecuted during the Clinton years?

7 posted on 02/01/2003 8:03:38 AM PST by csvset
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To: csvset
More about this spy for Cuba.
8 posted on 02/01/2003 9:27:38 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: TLBSHOW
In 1992 or 1993, she pulled off what seemed to be an intelligence coup. She traveled to Cuba and interviewed Cuban generals about economic reforms on the island. In 1998, she played an important role in drafting a widely cited analysis that found that Cuba's much diminished military posed no strategic threat to the United States. As recently as the week before last, she briefed top Pentagon policy-makers on Cuba.

From LINK in post above.

9 posted on 02/01/2003 9:30:51 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: All
Fidel Castro - Cuba
10 posted on 02/01/2003 9:33:17 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: brityank
Bump; and thank you.

Her loyalty is not to the democratic-republican legislative-made laws by which we abide ... process, but instead to The Party.

The noble thing for her to do would have been to admit early on, that she prefers a dictatorship and then move there.

She's done nothing noble here and instead was more interested in causing us harm.

Her purpose in the United States was to harm the people.

And she was doing it in time of war; the penalty is the most severe.

I expect that she will get off quite easily and comfortably because of her sex and her "ethnic background."

Nevermind the sacrifice of the people who are the same sex and ethnic background yet have endured what she probably never could, to be free.

11 posted on 02/01/2003 11:53:29 AM PST by First_Salute
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To: *Castro Watch
bump
12 posted on 02/02/2003 1:43:51 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe (God Armeth The Patriot)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
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13 posted on 02/04/2003 9:59:14 PM PST by A Patriot Son
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To: All

NOTE The following text is a quote:

www.fbi.gov/washingtondc/press-releases/2013/unsealed-indictment-charges-former-u.s.-federal-employee-with-conspiracy-to-commit-espionage-for-cuba

Unsealed Indictment Charges Former U.S. Federal Employee with Conspiracy to Commit Espionage for Cuba

Defendant Allegedly Helped Cuban Intelligence Service Recuit and Insert Spy into U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency

U.S. Department of Justice
April 25, 2013

Office of Public Affairs

WASHINGTON—A one-count indictment was unsealed today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia charging Marta Rita Velazquez, 55, with conspiracy to commit espionage, announced John Carlin, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Ronald C. Machen, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia; and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

The charges against Velazquez stem from, among other things, her alleged role in introducing Ana Belen Montes, now 55, to the Cuban Intelligence Service (CuIS) in 1984; in facilitating Montes’s recruitment by the CuIS; and in helping Montes later gain employment at the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Montes served as an intelligence analyst at DIA from September 1985 until she was arrested for espionage by FBI agents on September 21, 2001. On March 19, 2002, Montes pleaded guilty in the District of Columbia to conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of Cuba. Montes is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence.

The indictment against Velazquez, who is also known as “Marta Rita Kviele” and as “Barbara,” was originally returned by a grand jury in the District of Columbia on February 5, 2004. It has remained under court seal until today. Velazquez has continuously remained outside the United States since 2002. She is currently living in Stockholm, Sweden. If convicted of the charges against her, Velazquez faces a potential sentence of up to life in prison.

According to the indictment, Velazquez was born in Puerto Rico in 1957. She graduated from Princeton University in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and Latin American studies. Velazquez later obtained a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1982 and a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., in 1984.

Velazquez later served as an attorney advisor at the U.S. Department of Transportation, and, in 1989, she joined the State Department’s U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as a legal officer with responsibilities encompassing Central America. During her tenure at USAID, Velazquez held a top secret security clearance and was posted to the U.S. Embassies in Nicaragua and Guatemala. In June 2002, Velazquez resigned from USAID following press reports that Montes had pleaded guilty to espionage and was cooperating with the U.S. government. Velazquez has remained outside the United States since 2002.

The indictment alleges that, beginning in or about 1983, Velazquez conspired with others to transmit to the Cuban government and its agents documents and information relating to the U.S. national defense, with the intent that they would be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of the Cuban government.

As part of the conspiracy, Velazquez allegedly helped the CuIS spot, assess, and recruit U.S. citizens who occupied sensitive national security positions or had the potential of occupying such positions in the future to serve as Cuban agents. For example, the indictment alleges that, while Velazquez was a student with Montes at SAIS in Washington, D.C., in the early 1980s, Velazquez fostered a strong, personal friendship with Montes, with both sharing similar views of U.S. policies in Nicaragua at the time.

In December 1984, the indictment alleges, Velazquez introduced Montes in New York City to a Cuban intelligence officer who identified himself as an official of the Cuban Mission to the United States. The intelligence officer then recruited Montes. In 1985, after Montes’ recruitment, Velazquez personally accompanied Montes on a clandestine trip to Cuba for Montes to receive spy craft training from CuIS.

Later in 1985, Velazquez allegedly helped Montes obtain employment as an intelligence analyst at the DIA, where Montes had access to classified national defense information and served as an agent of the CuIS until her arrest in 2001. During her tenure at the DIA, Montes disclosed the identities of U.S. intelligence officers and provided other classified national defense information to the CuIS.

During this timeframe, Velazquez allegedly continued to serve the CuIS, receiving instructions from the CuIS through encrypted, high-frequency broadcasts from her handlers and through meetings with handlers outside the United States.

This case was investigated by the FBI’s Washington Field Office and the DIA. It is being prosecuted by Senior Trial Attorney Clifford Rones of the Counterespionage Section in the Justice Department’s National Security Division and Assistant U.S. Attorney G. Michael Harvey of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

The charges contained in an indictment are merely allegations, and each defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.


14 posted on 08/24/2013 2:35:20 AM PDT by Cindy
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