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

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fortunately, there was more evidence against them than just ``owning a SW radio`` which in this case meant transmitter. But wait, another version, from Reuters, said they RECEIVED messages via SW, and we know what that means, final final --- (gh)

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5546CA20090605
(via Harry Helms, DXLD)

--- On Fri, 6/5/09, jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx <jfiglio1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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