American Ana Belén Montes, arrested in 2001, will be released from prison on Sunday, the US prison agency announced.

She was sentenced in 2002 to 25 years in prison for spying for the Cuban government.

Now 65, the former military intelligence analyst was notably accused of having transmitted to Havana the names of American agents working in Cuba and the details of American naval maneuvers.

She was incarcerated in the prison of Carswell (Texas) and will now benefit from a conditional release regime for five years.


🚨 Noticias: En unos días y tras 20 años en prisión finamente será liberada la espía Ana Belén Montes.



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Spotted by Cuban agents

Arrested on September 21, 2001 by the federal police (FBI) south of Washington, Ana Belén Montes admitted to having spied on the United States for nearly a decade on behalf of Cuba, from 1992 to 2001. The FBI suspects her, however. to have started before, in 1985.

She was working in the Department of Justice when she came to the attention of Cuban agents by expressing her displeasure with US policy toward Central America.

She then got a job as an intelligence expert with the Military Intelligence Agency (DIA).



To transmit her information, encrypted using a program provided by Cuba, Ana Belén Montes used shortwave transmission devices and a public telephone located next to the Washington Zoo.

She had been denounced in 1996 by a colleague but the American authorities had only opened an investigation against her four years later.

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