Ana Montes had faced the death sentence for her espionage, but was instead sent to jail for 25 years. However, records show she was released on Friday after two decades in federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas.
"A lot of spies historically have given up information, but she repeatedly tried to get Americans killed in combat," Mr Simmons was quoted by NBC as saying.Montes receiving a national intelligence certificate of distinction from George Tenet, at the time Director of Central Intelligence for the CIA
Officials at the time said Montes was believed to have been recruited by Cuban intelligence when she worked in the Freedom of Information office at the Justice Department between 1979 and 1985, and was asked to seek work at an agency that would provide more useful information to Cuba.She therefore moved to working for the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1985, and was considered a top analyst on the Cuban military - even being rewarded for her work.
Prosecutors said during this time, Montes received regular coded messages from Havana over a short-wave radio as strings of numbers, which she would type onto a decryption-equipped laptop to translate to text. At her sentencing, Montes argued she had obeyed her conscience and that US policy to Cuba was cruel and
unfair."I felt morally obligated to help the island defend itself from our efforts to impose our values and our politicalUnder President Joe Biden, the US has eased some sanctions on Cuba but maintained its Cold War-era embargo on the island and stepped up restrictions on illegal migrants, arriving in record levels amid raging inflation and medicine shortages.
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