#NewWorldReport: Cuban spy rings in America,Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org.Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil.
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🗓️ 10 January 2023
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#NewWorldReport: Cuban spy rings in America,Senadora Maria Fernanda Cabal. @MariaFdaCabal (on leave) Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc https://www.securefreesociety.org.Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil.
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| 0:35.0 | I'm John Dachshu with Joseph Oomar, the Executive Director of Scarefree Society. The news |
| 0:39.4 | is a spy captured, condemned, decades in federal prison and now, Anamo Tez, an American citizen |
| 0:48.4 | convicted of spying for Cuba has been released from US federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas. |
| 0:54.3 | Cuba recruited Montez. This is a report from CNN. Cuba recruited Montez for spying in the |
| 1:01.6 | 1980s. And Montez was employed by the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency as an analyst |
| 1:07.9 | from 85 to 2001. She was eventually promoted to the DAI's top Cuba analyst. Joseph, this |
| 1:16.7 | was a story that rocked Washington at the time of the detention and trial. Montez now |
| 1:25.4 | is out. What does this mean about Cuba's conduct with recruiting and maintaining Montez as |
| 1:33.2 | an agent all those years, what, almost two decades? And what does it mean about other agents |
| 1:39.0 | for Cuba that may still be involved at some point in the US government? We all know |
| 1:44.7 | Joseph. There's never just one mouse. Yes, it's true. No, John, this is an under reported |
| 1:50.6 | story because Anna Belén Montez is right up there with all the Rick Ames from the CIA, |
| 1:57.4 | Robert Hanson from the FBI, well known, espionage cases because of what she did. And you |
| 2:03.7 | mentioned 2001, this is interesting anecdote to the story because the FBI who was doing |
| 2:08.1 | the counterintelligence work on investigation on her, the only reason she was arrested, because |
| 2:12.5 | they were trying to find those other mice, those other moles that were around her or working |
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