[Swprograms] Shortwave/Morse Code Still Have Value for Some People

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June 5, 2009
Couple Indicted on Charges of Spying for Cuba 
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 4:12 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A retired State Department worker with top secret security clearance and his wife have been indicted on charges of spying for Cuba over the past three decades.

The indictment unsealed Friday in Washington says Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, have been clandestine agents for Cuba since 1979. The pair were arrested Thursday.

The indictment says the couple met with Cuban President Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1995, traveling through Mexico under false names. They allegedly made several other trips to Latin America and the Caribbean to meet with Cuban agents.

Kendall Myers, 72, worked at the State Department. Early in his career, he specialized in European issues at the agency's Foreign Service Institute. In 2007, he retired from department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

The indictment says in his last year of employment, Kendall Myers viewed more than 200 intelligence reports related to Cuba.

The government said that Gwendolyn Myers revealed to investigators that her favorite places to pass information were Washington-area grocery stores.

Kendall Myers was known by the Cubans as Agent 202 and his wife went by both Agent 123 and Agent E-634, according to the indictment.

The two were charged with conspiracy to act as illegal agents of the Cuban government and to communicate classified information to the Cuban government. Each is also charged with acting as an illegal agent of the Cuban government and with wire fraud.

THE INDICTMENT SAYS THE COUPLE OWN A SHORTWAVE RADIO, WHICH THEY USED TO BROADCAST ENCRYPTED MESSAGES TO THE CUBAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE USING MORSE CODE.  In recent years, the documents say, they communicated through e-mail using a false name.

An undercover FBI agent approached them in April, pretending to be a Cuban spy. Court documents say the couple fell for the ruse and began meeting with the undercover agent at Washington hotels.




  
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