Former U.S. State Department Official Charged with Spying for Cuba

A former State Department employee and his wife  have been charged with spying for the Cuban government and could be facing up to 20 years in prison if found guilty.

According to the indictment handed down by the attorney general’s office Walter Kendall Myers, 72, and Gwendolyn Myers, 71, had been spying for the Cuban government for 30 years. The indictment went on to say that the couple had met with Cuban President Fidel Castro in 1995 and had contact with other Cuban agents over the years.

Myers retired in 2007 and in his last year working at the State Department’s Foreign Service he was said to have viewed at last 200 intelligence reports regarding Cuba.

In the end the pair were caught following a sting operation launched by the FBI in which an agent posed as a Cuban spy and convinced him them to supply him with information.

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