Ana Montes
Ana Belén Montes is a former senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency and a convicted spy.
For 16 years, Ana Belen Montes spied for Cuba from increasingly responsible positions at the Defense Intelligence Agency. If Havana has ever run a higher level or more valuable mole inside the American defense establishment, it has never been revealed.
On September 21, 2001, she was arrested and subsequently charged with conspiracy to commit espionage for the government of Cuba. After her arrest, Montes insisted that she had the “moral right” to provide information to Cuba. As far as I am concerned she had no morals at all. She was a trader from the outset and still is.
Montes eventually pleaded guilty to spying and in October 2002, was sentenced to a 25-year prison term followed by five years’ probation.
