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The turning point in policy thinking about Cuba's BW capabilities may have come with the FBI's Sept. 20 arrest of a spy for Cuba operating within the Defense Intelligence Agency. Ana Belen Montes, a senior DIA analyst on Cuban matters, was arrested for allegedly stealing sensitive secrets and for betraying a number of U.S. agents.
Montes played an instrumental role in writing a 1998 study advancing the position that Cuba "is not a threat to the U.S." ***
BUMP!!
