Re: [Swprograms] US-based "Cuban Spies" Used SW Radio Again

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

AP later rewrote and expanded the story at the tinyurl link, with more about the radio angle: 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090606/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_us_cuba_spy_charges

COUPLE ACCUSED OF SPYING FOR CUBA FOR 30 YEARS

Slideshow: Couple accused of spying for Cuba  Play Video [shots of their apt bldg, etc.]

Cuba Video: Cuban Spies Living in South Dakota ABC News  Play Video
[this video shows the SW signals emanating from the Isla de Juventud!]
(gh)

--- On Fri, 6/5/09, Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [dxld] US-based "Cuban Spies" Used SW Radio Again
> To: dxld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, June 5, 2009, 6:31 PM
> 
> 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
> --- (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
> 
> http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5546CA20090605
> (via Harry Helms, DXLD)
> 
> --- On Fri, 6/5/09, sergei_dx <radonezh@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > If I remember correctly, a few years
> > ago there was another Cuban spy ring broken in the US.
> They
> > were accused of owning a SW radio, too.
> > 
> > Sergei
> > 
> > 
> > Couple indicted on charges of spying for Cuba
> > 
> > WASHINGTON – 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 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.
> > 
> > The indictment says the two agreed to be spies in
> 1979
> > after meeting with a Cuban government official while
> they
> > were living in South Dakota. At Cuba's direction,
> > authorities say, Kendall Myers attempted to get jobs
> that
> > would give him access to classified information...
> > 
> > The whole report is here: http://tinyurl.com/CubanSpies



      

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