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Ana Belen Montes: US double agent and defender of Cuba
For 17 years, a high-ranking US spy instead spied for Cuba, preventing US terrorism against its people — until she was caught and kept in near isolation for two decades. Finally free, MARC VANDEPITTE tells her story
In the mid-1980s, she joined the Defense Intelligence Agency, rising quickly through the ranks. Because of her seniority, she had access to virtually everything the US intelligence community gathered about Cuba — and was able to spy on behalf of the Cuban people for 17 years.
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ON JANUARY 6, Ana Belen Montes was released after 21 years in federal military prison. As a high-ranking member of the US intelligence service, she had forwarded secret information to the Cuban authorities to thwart attacks against Cuba. In a sense, she was waging a “war on terror” — but against her own country’s state terror.
In 1959, the Cubans succeeded in building a socialist revolution on the doorstep of their all-powerful neighbour. Successive US presidents have therefore done everything they can to bring the revolution to its knees.
It is well known that Cuba has been subjected to the longest economic blockade in history, with devastating consequences. Less known is that the country has also been exposed to a lot of other kinds of aggression from the US in the last 64 years.
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