MIAMI – Just after 20 decades, Cuba’s leading spy will wander out of a Texas federal lockup.
Writer and previous spy catcher for the Protection Intelligence Agency Chris Simmons does not mince words and phrases, “I desire we could have kept her in there lengthier.”
In the 1990s Ana Belen Montes was the Defense Intelligence Agency’s leading Cuban analyst.
At the same time, she was undermining U.S. Functions in Central The us, distorting the U.S. Government’s sights on Cuba, burning about 450 U.S. operatives, and leaking U.S. armed service information, which accusers say led to the dying in El Salvador of Green Beret Sergeant Gregory A. Fronius.
On February 24, 1996, around the straits of Florida in international air room, Cuba shot down two U.S. registered humanitarian plane operated by Cuban exile organization Brothers to the Rescue.
4 pilots and volunteers died.
Sooner or later, in 1998, the FBI rolls up and the feds consider customers of a huge Cuba spy ring dependent in South Florida.
Associates of the team were being accused of aiding Cuba in the shootdown.
According to Simmons, “The Wasp Network was the major international spy community to work in the United States and Montes was a person of Havana’s best 10 assets.”
In his ebook, “Castro’s Nemesis,” Chris Simmons knits with each other the Ana Belen Montes story with the Cuban Wasp Spy community.
Simmons was on the workforce that rooted out Montes and is fast to say, “I have under no circumstances observed a person so heartless in all my daily life.”
In the aftermath of the Brothers to the Rescue shootdown, Montes was on the group that was analyzing a U.S. reaction and at the exact time was reporting that details to her Cuban handlers.
The Cubans realized every single transfer the U.S. was contemplating.
“Just the concept she was leaving the Pentagon and straight away going to a surveillance detection route and conference with her handlers and presenting what at the time was the Pentagon’s desired reaction was a cruise missile attack on Cuba,” Simmons told CBS4 Information.
Montes was arrested and escorted out of DIA headquarters just forward of the Iraq War because she was included with Cuba’s thieving of American Secrets and marketing them to unfriendly international actors.
In the system of the Montes’ investigation, Simmons claims the team understood there was a second spy working in the agency.
There was a raft of circumstantial evidence gathered, but the suspected spy was authorized “to retire.”
The arrest of Montes and the takedown ruined Cuban espionage efforts but did not put them out of the recreation.
Legislation enforcement, tutorial sources, and Chris Simmons concur that the Cuban intelligence community is as vigorous as at any time.
They say as several as 3 hundred operatives are energetic in the U.S. with two-thirds focusing on the Miami place.
Ana Belen Montes is set to get out of federal custody on January 8th, 2023.
