Saturday, June 6, 2009
June 2001 Mariano Faget, 54, an acting deputy director of the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service in Miami, was sentenced to five
years in prison. He was convicted of revealing secrets to a business
partner with connections to Cuba.
December 2001 Five Cuban immigrants were sentenced in Miami to prison
terms ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment after being convicted
of acting as unregistered foreign agents and conspiring to commit crimes
against the United States. Three were also convicted of conspiracy to
commit espionage. They were among 10 Cuban immigrants accused of
infiltrating militant Cuban exile groups in Miami. Some were also
accused of seeking U.S. military intelligence.
October 2002 Ana Belen Montes, a senior analyst of Cuban affairs for the
Defense Intelligence Agency, was sentenced to 25 years in prison. She
was accused of passing top-secret files to Cuban intelligence officers
from 1992 to 2001.
SOURCE: Defense Personnel Security Research Center, staff research
Prominent Cases Of Spying for Cuba - washingtonpost.com (6 June 2009)
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