Friday, June 05, 2009

Couple Accused of Spying or Cuba For 30 years

A retired State Department worker and his wife have been arrested on charges of spying for Cuba for 30years , using grocery carts among their array of tools to pass U.S. secrets to the communist government in a security breach. An indictment unsealed Friday ,Myers worked his way into higher and higher U.S. security clearances while secretly partnering with his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, as clandestine agents so valued by the Cuban government that they once had a private four-hour meeting with President Fidel Castro. The Myerses' arrest could affect congressional support for easing tensions with Cuba dating back to the Cold War. Two months ago, the Obama administration took steps to relax a trade embargo imposed on the island nation in 1962.

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