How an American couple came to be spies for Cuba

Jun 6th, 2009 - The Christian Science Monitor

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A retired State Department official - aided by a top security clearance, a shortwave radio, and his wife - passed on secret information to the Cuban Intelligence Service for nearly three decades.

That’s the gist of a grand jury indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors on Friday. The State Department is still working on a damage assessment, but federal prosecutor David Kris describes the alleged spy activity as “incredibly serious.”

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