Cuban to be deported by INS for infiltration

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[This is one lucky Cuban.]

AFP via Times of India - May 31 2002
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=11586418

Cuban to be deported for infiltration

MIAMI, May 31 (AFP)--A Cuban national seeking to penetrate the US
Southern Command, the US military's key base for the Americas, has
been arrested and will be deported, the Immigration and
Naturalisation Service has announced.

Juan Emilio Aboy, 41, had been trained as a spy and was believed to
have been seeking to enter the Miami-based command centre, the INS
said in a statement. Aboy has not been charged formally with
espionage, but the INS has begun deportation proceedings as he did
not register himself under the law as the agent of a foreign
government on his arrival in the country in 1996.

James Goldman, INS assistant director for investigations, stressed
however that "Aboy's primary mission was to infiltrate the US
Southern Command." "The joint INS/FBI investigation focusing on Aboy
revealed that he is an agent of the Cuban Intelligence Service and
had received specific training in espionage activities and had
engaged in such activities after entering the United States," an INS
statement released Thursday said.

On March 20, a senior analyst at the US Defense Intelligence Agency
pleaded guilty to spying for Cuban President Fidel Castro's communist
regime.

Ana Belen Montes, pleaded guilty in US District Court to being a spy
for the Castro governemnt from 1985 to 2001. Montes was the DIA's
senior analyst for Cuban issues. She was arrested September 21 at her
office at the Bolling Air Force Base, outside Washington.

Unlike other spies uncovered over the past years, such as the FBI's
Robert Hanssen and the CIA's Aldrich Ames, Montes spied for
ideological reasons, not money.

In an earlier case in December, a US federal court in Miami sentenced
five Cubans on espionage charges in what had been called the largest
Cuban spy ring ever broken up by US authorities.

The five, described by Havana as heroes and patriots, were accused of
trying to infiltrate US military installations and Cuban exile groups
in Florida in an effort to feed military and political information
back to Havana.

The five admitted to penetrating exile groups in a bid to avert
possible terrorist acts against Cuba, but insisted that at no time
did they try to attack US national security.
 
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