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Ex-State Department official gets life for Cuba spy case

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Walter Kendall Myers, a former State Department official, was sentenced to life in prison without parole Friday for his role in a 30-year conspiracy to provide classified data to Cuba, the Justice Department said. The man's wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, who was also charged in the espionage case, was sentenced to 81 months in prison, a Justice Department statement said. The couple, arrested in June 2009, pleaded guilty last year to charges in connected with "a nearly 30-year conspiracy...Read Full Story

Cuba: Friends in High Places - By Scott Stewart and Fred Burton.

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On June 4, 2009, Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, were arrested by the FBI and charged with spying for the government of Cuba. According to court documents filed in the case, the Myers allegedly were recruited by the Cuban intelligence service in 1979 and worked for them as agents until 2007. On June 10, 2009, a U.S. Magistrate Judge ruled that the couple posed a flight risk and ordered them held without bond. The criminal complaint filed by the FBI in the U.S...Read Full Story

Feds: Love of Cuba drove 2 spies who face prison

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Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers were the kind of spies any intelligence service would want. They did it for love of country, not for money. According to federal prosecutors, the two stole U.S. secrets and gave them to Cuba for nearly 30 years because of a shared communist ideology and an adoration of the Cuban revolution. Now, Kendall Myers, a retired State Department worker, faces life in prison and his wife faces at least six years behind bars, the outcome of a plea deal driven by the...Read Full Story

In spy case, man gets life, wife 81 months

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A federal judge has sentenced a former State Department worker to life in prison without possibility of parole for spying for Cuba and sentenced the man's wife to 81 months behind bars for helping her husband steal U.S. secrets. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers betrayed the United States and should receive heavy punishment for having done so. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. Kendall and...Read Full Story

Spies for Cuba limit cooperation with U.S.: prosecutors

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An American couple who has pleaded guilty to spying for Cuba will be sentenced on Friday after a debriefing prosecutors said was tarnished but did not breach their plea agreement. Former State Department official Walter Kendall Myers, who had access to classified information, and his wife, Gwendolyn, who worked at a bank, pleaded guilty to charges that they worked for Cuban intelligence for three decades. As part of their plea agreement, Kendall Myers, 73, agreed to a...Read Full Story

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Walter Kendall Myers (born c. 1937) is a former US State Department employee. On June 4, 2009, he and his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, were arrested for spying on the United States for Cuba.

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