{"id":110535,"date":"2017-12-02T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:01:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:01:41","slug":"same-spy-story-different-characters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/02\/same-spy-story-different-characters-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Same (Spy) Story, Different Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\"> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-6448-Norfolk-Military-Affairs-Examiner%7Ey2009m6d7-Same-spy-story-different-characters\">Our new column at Examiner.com <\/a>looks  at the nation&#8217;s newest spy scandal, involving retired State Department  official Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn.  Both are accused of  passing classified information to Cuba for decades. <\/p>\n<p>If the  outline sounds familiar, it should.  Eight years ago, the FBI arrested  Ana Montes, the senior Cuba analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency,  on similar charges.  Ms. Montes eventually entered a guilty plea on  espionage charges and is now serving a lengthy prison sentence. <\/p>\n<p>In  both cases, Cuban intelligence was able to identify willing recruits  (both the Kendalls and Ms. Montes were motivated by ideology, not  financial gain), encourage their entry into government service, and  utilize them as long-term espionage assets.  Ana Montes was a Cuban  agent throughout her DIA career; ditto for Kendall Myers, who worked at  the State Department for almost 30 years. <\/p>\n<p>Ms. Montes&#8217; betrayal  caused exceptionally grave damage to our national security.  The impact  of the Myers&#8217; scandal is still being calculated.  We can only wonder if  other Cuban moles remain buried in our diplomatic and intelligence  bureaucracies. <\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the scary part: it took  counter-intelligence agents 15 years to catch up with Ana Montes, and  Myers was arrested two years after his retirement.  Clearly, our spy  catching operation remains woefully deficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our new column at Examiner.com looks at the nation&#8217;s newest spy scandal, involving retired State Department official Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn. Both are accused of passing classified information to Cuba for decades. If the outline sounds familiar, it should. Eight years ago, the FBI arrested Ana Montes, the senior Cuba analyst at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}