CASTRO'S SPIES' ARRESTS ARE A WAKE UP CALL FOR A COMPLACENT WASHINGTON

CASTRO'S SPIES' ARRESTS ARE A WAKE UP CALL FOR A COMPLACENT WASHINGTON
2009-06-07.
Distributed by: Frank Calzon, Centre for a Free Cuba

(www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- [6th june 2009]. WASHINGTON: The arrest
this afternoon of a former State Department official charged with spying
for the Castro's dictatorship "for nearly thirty years," is a wakeup
call for the U.S. government, according to Frank Calzon, executive
director of the Center for a Free Cuba.

"The arrests coincide with increasing pressure generated by opponents of
current U.S. policy in the Obama Administration to give the benefit of
the doubt to the Cuba. The arrests of Kendall Myers, and his wife
Gwendolyn Myers, who, according to press reports worked as a
Congressional aide, should be a matter of great concern to the Congress
because of the ongoing efforts by Cuban diplomats and others to
influence the perception of both Congressmen and Senators about U.S.
Cuba policy.

The Myers are not the first U.S. government officials to be accused of
spying for Cuba. Ana Belen Montes, a high intelligence officer at the
Defense intelligence Agency is currently serving a 25- year sentence for
spying for Havana. She was very influential in the Pentagon assessment
of Havana's level of anti-American hostility. Havana's diplomats in
Washington have unimpeded access to Congressional hearings,
Congressional offices, think tanks and universities, while American
diplomats on the island are harassed and denied similar access.

While the Department of State has sought to improve relations with
Havana for more than two years, Havana continues to implement policies
that would be considered totally unacceptable if carried out by other
governments, including the arbitrary delays and even the breaking into
the United States diplomatic pouch.

The Center for a Free Cuba, a non-partisan pro-democracy organization,
called today on Congressmen Silvestre Reyes and Peter Hoekstra, chairman
and ranking member respectively of the House Committee on Intelligence
"to hold hearings as soon as possible about both Cuban intelligence
operations in the United States, the hostile efforts against the United
States by Cuban intelligence operatives elsewhere, and the work of
"agents of influence" working for Havana in Washington."

Frank Calzon, executive director, of the Center for a Free Cuba, said
that "the Obama Administration is absolutely right to monitor carefully
the work of Cuba, North Korea, Iran and other regimes which have
associated themselves with international terrorism." The FBI should be
congratulated for their undercover operation which brought to light the
pernicious work of Mr. Myers who, according to the FBI, had access to
more than 200 secret and top-secret intelligence reports about Cuba.

Perhaps this announcement will encourage American government officials,
including Congressional staff, to report to appropriate government
agencies any approach by diplomats and others working for those regimes."

CASTRO'S SPIES' ARRESTS ARE A WAKE UP CALL FOR A COMPLACENT WASHINGTON -
Misceláneas de Cuba (7 June 2009)

http://www.miscelaneasdecuba.net/web/article.asp?artID=21079