The 16year career of ana belen montes as an agent of cuban intelligence came to a prosaic end the morning of september 21, 2001. Montes eventually pleaded guilty to spying and in october 2002, was sentenced to a 25year prison term followed. Federal bureau of lnvestigation officials arrested ana belen montes at the defense. More cuban intelligence service espionage tradecraft the. The residence of ana belen montes is located at 3039 macomb street, n.
Inside the investigation and capture of ana montes, cubas master spy scott w. In 2001, ana belen montes was arrested and charged with espionage while working as. Aug 29, 2016 an extensive article published today in the washington post magazine revisits the largely forgotten case of ana belen montes, a senior united states military intelligence analyst who was convicted in 2002 of spying for cuba. We are writing this note to you from cuba with a heartfelt desire to let you know about the formation of the cuba committee, which presently manages the campaign for a better treatment and a possible pardon for ana belen montes she is an american citizen who was able to sense a different future between our. Defense intelligence agency analyst who spied for cuba got a 25 years sentence two weeks ago. May 23, 2017 the most dangerous spy youve never heard of. Stream song for ana belen montes by davidrovics from desktop or your mobile device. Ana montes used to help her encrypt and decrypt messages to and from her handlers. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license.
Ana belen montes received her instructions via the cuban number station v02 on a frequency of 7887khz. Instead of a generic one time pad her coded messages were reduced to plain language by a bespoke computer program on a toshiba laptop. New revelations about cuban spy ana montes miami herald. Descargar libro ana belen montes ebook del autor ana belen montes isbn 9788879807029 en pdf o epub completo al mejor precio, leer. Ana belen montes, a former american intelligence officer convicted of conspiring to spy for cuba, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on wednesday after saying she opposed u. The struggle to free puerto rican political prisoners ana belen montes and nina alejandra droz franco continues. Declarations she made before the federal court in 2002 are beautiful and they express.
Appeal about the fate of ana belen montes the vineyard. Plans are to publish individual articles on this site, along with a pdf of what would be the printed version. If havana has ever run a higher level or more valuable mole inside the. Now an international campaign on her behalf is gaining steam with committees active in latin america, europe, canada, and. Montes, who was arrested by the federal bureau of investigation in washington, dc, on september 20, 2001, underwent trial.
Ana belen montes is a puerto rican woman facing a 25year prison sentence for passing information to cuban intelligence agencies. Ana belen montes is a united states citizen born on february 28, 1957, on a u. She has already served 15 years in the psychiatric unit detention center at the federal medical center, carswell in fort worth, texas. Montes eventually pleaded guilty to spying and in october 2002, was sentenced to a 25year prison term. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page.
True believer by scott carmichael overdrive rakuten. Ana montes appeared to be a model employee of the defense intelligence agency dia, advancing quickly through the ranks to become its top analyst on cuban affairs. Ana belen montes born february 28, 1957 is a former american senior analyst at the defense intelligence agency in the united states and a convicted spy. I write this letter on behalf of prisoner of conscience ana belen montes inmate fmc 25037016, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison with no parole for following her conscience and not the law. Sep 21, 2017 the campaign to gain freedom for 60yearold prisoner ana belen montes is in need of a boost. I want to know about the health of ana belen montes, inmate no. Theyll say the same of ana belen montes, who completed her 16 th year in a us jail. He didnt achieve political success and so he can be dismissed. If havana has ever run a higher level or more valuable mole inside the american defense establishment, that has never been revealed. Oct 25, 2015 the amnestyignored prisoner of conscience ana montes remains defiant, despite her decade and a half of incarceration in the highest security womens prison in the united states.
Inside the investigation and capture of ana montes, cubas master spy kindle edition by carmichael, scott. Montes, a top pentagon intelligence analyst, is charged with spying for cuba. Details about cuban spy ana montes from the department of defense inspector generals 2005 report only now declassified shed new light on the case. Open letter to barack obama in support of ana belen montes. Posted on july 2, 2017 by l i believe that the morality of espionage is relative. Cuba, war, and ana belen montes by tom whitney the u. On march 20, 2002, ana belen montes, the defense intelligence agencys dia primary politicavmilitary analyst on cuba since 1992, pled guilty in u.
Ana belen montes could have gotten the death penalty. True believer leaves many questions unanswered lexington. Just 10 days after the attacks of 911, the fbi arrested a 44yearold woman named ana belen montes. The amnestyignored prisoner of conscience ana montes remains defiant, despite her decade and a half of incarceration in the highest security womens prison in the united states.
This entry was posted in cuba, espionage and tagged ana belen montes, cuba. The lenience was part of a plea whereby she agreed to tell the justice department about her espionage since 1985. Soundcloud song for ana belen montes by davidrovics published on 20111t21. Formerly a senior analyst for the defense intelligence agency dia, ana belen montes was convicted in october 2002 of espionage and sentenced to 25 years. Her supervisor at the defense intelligence agency dia, where she was the top cuba analyst, directed her to a conference room to discuss a fictitious problem involving one of her subordinates. She had nothing to do with the terrorist strikes, but her arrest had everything to do with protecting the country at a time when national security was of paramount importance.
Review of the actions taken to deter, detect and investigate the espionage activities of ana belen montes dod ig, 16 june 2005. Apr 17, 2007 the 16year career of ana belen montes as an agent of cuban intelligence came to a prosaic end the morning of september 21, 2001. A lot of information about ana can be obtained on the internet. On september 21, 2001, she was arrested and subsequently charged with conspiracy to commit espionage for the government of cuba. The post republic november 22, 1963, zionist owned and controlled america, is not the kind and gentle place it is portrayed as in hollywood, or the new york times. Woman indicted in cuba spy case is in sweden and out of u.
On march 23 the prolibertad freedom campaign held a freedom march in harlem as part of their womens history month activities and dedicated it to these heroes. Now an international campaign on her behalf is gaining steam with committees active in latin america, europe, canada, and the united states. Ana belen montes is a heroine who deserves to spend her remaining days, in freedom. Black french soldiers in sacrifice the dark side of. For 16 years, ana belen montes spied for cuba from increasingly responsible positions at the defense intelligence agency. In 1979, when she was 22 years old, the university of virginia granted her a bachelors degree in international relations. Is ana montes the most important spy youve never heard. Arrested by the fbi two weeks after september 11, 2001, and charged with conspiring. Apartment 20 is on the second floor and is the first door on the left. In september of 2001, she was accused of conspiracy to commit espionage in favor of cuba and pleaded guilty for her actions.
She graduated from the university of virginia in 1979 and obtained a masters degree from the johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies in 1988. Intelligence service cuis, federal bureau of investigation fbi, ana belen. She had nothing to do with the terrorist strikes, but her arrest had. Ana belen montes was on february 28th, 1957 in western germany, where her militaryofficer father was based as an army doctor. Ana montes appeared to be a model employee of the defense intelligence agency dia. Descargar verdadera creyente ana montes no oficial. Ana belen montes by susan babbitt ana belen montes gave classified information to cuba for 17 years before her arrest in 2001 for espionage.
Montes, whose family origins are puerto rican, is serving a 25year prison sentence for the crime of. Ana montes was a junior at the university of virginia when she met a handsome student during a studyabroad program in spain. Montes was charged with conspiracy to commit espionage. Montes provided various pieces of information to the cuban intelligence service cis including details of wargames held to design contingency plans for a us invasion of cuba, names and activities of four us agents in cuba, details of. She did what she did because her conscience dictated that she was doing something morally justified, and that the immoral, the wrong thing, were the plans of aggression against cuba. Her cousin, miriam mock, writes that, at years end, ana is the same caring, engaged, studious person as when she was apprehended. Jun, 2009 the residence of ana belen montes is located at 3039 macomb street, n. Prison is one of the last places i would have ever chosen to be in, montes says, but some things in life are worth going to prison for. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The article below was published in the spring 2019 edition of active measures, iwps student journal this paper discusses the unique motivations of spy ana belen montes, former military analyst for the dia who spied on behalf of the cuban government for over 16 years. Known to her coworkers as the queen of cuba, she was an overachiever who advanced quickly through the ranks of latin american specialists to become the intelligence communitys top analyst on cuban affairs. The prolibertad freedom campaign is an organization composed of individuals who work together on a broad and unitary basis, accepting differences of ideological and political position, but sharing the responsibility to support the puerto rican political prisoners and prisoners of conscience who have been imprisoned for their political convictions and activities. Ana belen montes did not act on the basis of financial, political or ideological interests.
He was from argentina and a leftist, friends recall, and helped open. Ana belen montes ebook ana belen montes descargar libro. Song for ana belen montes by davidrovics david rovics. The activity always betrays someone, and some observers will think that it is justified and others not, in every case.