Freedom for Ana Belen Montes!!

 

     To millions of Cubans in Cuba today, this is the sweetest smile in the world on Sunday, January 8th, 2023!!! This smile is from Ana Belen Montes right after she gained her freedom after spending 20 years in a U. S. Federal Prison in Texas.

     As of today -- Sunday, January 8th, 2023 -- Ana Belen Montes is free after serving twenty years as a Cuban spy in a Federal Prison in Texas.

    From Miami to Washington to London and around the world today -- Sunday, January 8th, 2023 -- the release of the now 65-year-old Ana Belen Montes from the U. S. Federal Prison System is Big News as illustrated by these headlines.

     On this second Sunday of 2023 above is CNN's international coverage of Ana Belen Montes being released after serving her required 20 years in a Federal U. S. prison. When she was sentenced in 2001 as a Cuban spy the sentence included 20 years in prison PLUS five years of probation once she was released. Therefore, now at 65-years-old, Ana Belen Montes has begun her 5-year probationary period. When she was sentenced in 2001 she had been, since 1985, a key and honored Cuban expert high up in the U. S. government...and a top U. S. adviser on Cuban policy. But all the while she cogently disagreed with the U. S. government's Cuban policy, which she considered "cruel and unfair." Above you can see the FBI mugshot the day she was arrested on September 21-2001, a few days after 9/11/01. Below the mugshot there is a reference of Jim Popkin's book "Code Name Blue Wren", one of the most definitive books about the saga of Ana Belen Montes. Her saga now continues. As reported correctly above by CNN: "For 17 years, Ana Montes was a diligent employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the US military's spy arm. By day she was its top Cuba analyst, with access to some of the nation's best-kept secrets. By night, Montes passed those secrets to the Castro regime..."

     Now that Ana Belen Montes, at age 65, has finished her 20-year prison sentence and is now on probation for the next five years, many people continue to debate her pros & cons. For example, for 17 years she was the USA's top expert and top adviser regarding Cuba and she firmly believed that the USA's Cuban policies were "cruel and unfair.". She still believed that 20 years ago on the day she was sentenced...and it is assumed that she still believes that now that she has REGAINED Her Freedom."

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