Remember who Obama’s State Department just spent the last week cozying up to at the Organization of American States conference?
Yes, Cuba. Well, guess who had some State Department nabobs on the payroll for the past three decades?
A former State Department official with top-secret security clearance and his wife have been charged with spying for Cuba over the past three decades, passing information by shortwave radio and correspondence exchanged in local grocery stores, federal prosecutors said.
The couple, Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, 71, were charged with conspiring to act as illegal agents and to communicate classified information to the Cuban government. They were ordered held in jail pending further court proceedings.
State Department officials said last night they were still assessing the potential damage to the government’s security and intelligence operations and declined to comment further.
Within hours of the couple’s appearance yesterday at U.S. District Court in the District, a novel-worthy tale began to emerge from court documents and law enforcement sources, depicting an elderly couple of famed lineage, living in a Northwest Washington neighborhood and traveling abroad under code names, motivated by ideology to pass information to Cuban agents.
I hope we throw the book at them big time (oops, Charles will probably accuse me of inciting violence). Not only did this couple compromise who knows how many of our secrets to the Communist Cuban government, but who knows what damage has been done to the opponents of the Castro regime inside Cuba? How many democracy activists and Cuban supporters of freedom found their way into the inside of one of Castro’s gulags, all because of this couple of “ideologically motivated” gringos? Shows once again why the State Department (even under Republican Presidents) has a reputation for being infested with anti-American communists.
If the lefties want to take a break from their hoot-monkeyish condemnations of pro-lifers so as to start blaming people who are actually responsible for the deaths of others, Walter and Gwendolyn Myers would be a good place to start.
Tags: spying, State Dept
