Kendall Myers

Walter Kendall Myers ( born 1937 in Washington DC ) is a former senior official of the State Department of the United States. In 2009 he was arrested with his wife Gwendolyn Myers for alleged 30 -year-old spy for the Republic of Cuba. 2010, they were sentenced, Walter for life, Gwendolyn for more than 5 years.

Career

Kendall Myers is the grandson of Gilbert Grosvenor and the great-grandson of Alexander Graham Bell. He attended Brown University and later made a Doctor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. There, and at Georgetown and George Washington University, where he also taught. From 1977 he also worked for the U.S. State Department. In 1978, he was allegedly recruited by Cuban spies. From 2000 to 2007 he worked for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, where he had daily access to data with high levels of confidentiality. Last year alone, his work, he should have called the 200 documents about Cuba.

On June 6, 2009, he and his wife were arrested after a covert operation by the FBI, in which a FBI agent posing as a Cuban intelligence officer. Walter ( Agent 202) and Gwendolyn Myers ( Agent 123 ) allegedly took advantage of short-wave radios, encrypted emails and direct transfers to communicate with Cuba. They should also have several times visited Havana in 1995 and Fidel Castro met. It is assumed on the part of the investigating authorities that the Myers worked at least also from ideological conviction for Cuba. It diary entries were reproduced, in which Kendall Myers wrote among other things:

He also described there Fidel Castro as "one of the great political leaders of our time. "

Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers pleaded on 20 November 2009 partially guilty. Kendall Myers wanted to go to a private showing of the USA not hurt, but Cuba thereby protect by making available to them an adequate picture of the hostile attitude of the United States. On July 16, 2010 Kendall Meyers was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of early release, his wife, to 81 months in prison.

Reactions in Cuba

"Those who in one form or another have helped to protect the Cuban people from the terrorist plans and assassination plots Organised by various U.S. administrations have done so at the initiative of Their Own conscience and are deserving, in my judgment, of all the honors in the world. "

Castro refused to comment on the alleged spying activities of the two, but added that if this were so, they must be praised for it.