Ex-U.S. State official, wife face Cuba spy charges

Reuters ^ | Fri June 5 | Andy Sullivan

[DesScorp]

A former U.S. State Department official and his wife have been arrested for spying for the Cuban government for nearly 30 years, the Justice Department said on Friday.

Walter Kendall Myers, 72, aided by his wife Gwendolyn Myers, 71, used his Top Secret security clearance to pass on classified information to the Cuban government and at one point met with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, according to court documents.

The two were charged with conspiracy to act as illegal agents of the Cuban government and to communicate classified information to Cuba, the Justice Department said. They were also charged with wire fraud and acting as illegal agents.

They face up to 35 years in prison. The two pleaded not guilty and will be held until a detention hearing on Wednesday, a Justice Department official said.

[DesScorp]

More story at the link. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg would be proud. I'll bet there are more of these people in the State Department, too.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

5 will get you 10 that they envisioned themselves as ‘enlightened intellectuals’ who knew better than the rest of us what is right and good. It’s the height of selfishness, but encased in the delusion of altruism. I’ve never seen bigger narcissists than those who want to save the world on their own terms.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

If you’re a spy, now is the time to cash in...Plenty-O-Spies caught on Carter’s and Clinton’s ‘watch’ and shortly thereafter, as well.

Shameless Socialists! How DARE they act like Capitalists! ;)

I can just IMAGINE what Hillary! is garnering while selling us down the river. Thirty pieces of silver and a silk head scarf to wear on her visits to mosques?

*SPIT*

[proudmilitarymrs]

I only hope that the law remains the law and that they are prosecuted to the fullest extent thereof. Treason is treason, not negotiable.

mrs

[Ann Archy]

HIPPIES! So-called intellectual hippies, I’m sure. Did they take advantage of the great free health care there when they visited Fidel??

[Misterioso]

Espionage should be a capital crime.

[Kansas58]

And the CIA.

Wilson, Plame, etc.

[gigster]

I’m sure they’re trembling in their Birkenstocks at the prospect of Eric Holder prosecuting them.

[Ann Archy]

I thought it was? The Rosenbergs, et al.

[QBFimi]

>> Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has ordered a damage assessment and a review of ... security procedures

Well, I feel much better now.

[Signalman]

A Justice Department official said they were motivated by a desire to help the Cuban government, not money.

If convicted, these two leftist vermin should get the death penalty, IMO.

[Ann Archy]

You are RIGHT!! NOTHING will happen to them because of the bigger Socialist Eric Holder!

[Misterioso]

I guess we’ll have to wait and see. How do we know Dan Rather wasn’t an agent for El Jefe?

[Jabba the Nutt]

How can you tell that individual employees at the State Department are anti-American spies? That seems to be normal behavior at Foggy Bottom. Of course, John Bolton was the shining exception. He’d make a terrific Secretary of State in a Palin administration.

[gigster]

I like your moniker.

[Frantzie]

The State Dept probably has one or two non-lefties and non-spies. Sick.

[Reverend Wright]

Bob wrote: “If convicted, these two leftist vermin should get the death penalty, IMO.”

It’s much more likely that they will pardoned by Zero soon after conviction as part of his “new beginning” with Cuba.

[Ann Archy]

Thanks.

[clintonh8r]

The Kenyan will probably award them the Hero of the Amerikan Soviet States Medal...the highest civilian award given in the struggle for hope and change.

[yldstrk]

sick