Walter Kendall Myers

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Walter Kendall Myers (born 1937 in Washington, DC ) is a former high-ranking official in the United States Department of State . In 2009 he was arrested with his wife Gwendolyn Myers on suspicion of 30 years of espionage for the Republic of Cuba . In 2010 they were sentenced, Walter for life, Gwendolyn for more than 5 years.

Career

Kendall Myers is the grandson of Gilbert Grosvenor and the great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell . He attended Brown University and later earned a PhD in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University . There, and at Georgetown and George Washington University , he also taught. From 1977 he also worked for the US State Department. In 1978 he is said to have been recruited by Cuban spies. From 2000 to 2007 he worked for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research , where he had daily access to data with a high level of confidentiality. In the last year of his activity alone, he is said to have accessed around 200 documents about Cuba.

On June 6, 2009, he and his wife were arrested after an undercover FBI operation in which an FBI official posed as a Cuban intelligence officer. Walter (agent 202) and Gwendolyn Myers (agent 123) allegedly used shortwave radios, encrypted e-mails and direct handovers to communicate with Cuba. They are also said to have visited Havana several times and met Fidel Castro in 1995 . It is assumed by the investigating authorities that the Myers worked for Cuba, at least out of ideological conviction. Journal entries were reproduced in which Kendall Myers wrote, among other things:

" I can see nothing of value that has been lost by the revolution. The revolution has released enormous potential and liberated the Cuban spirit. "

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He also referred to Fidel Castro there as “ one of the great political leaders of our time. "

Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers pleaded partially guilty on November 20, 2009. According to his own admission, Kendall Myers did not want to harm the USA, but wanted to protect Cuba by giving them the most adequate possible picture of the hostile attitude of the USA. On July 16, 2010, Kendall Meyers was sentenced to life imprisonment with no early release option and his wife to 81 months in prison.

Reactions in Cuba

“ Those who in one form or another have helped to protect the Cuban people from the terrorist plans and assassination plots organized by various US administrations have done so at the initiative of their own conscience and are deserving, in my judgment, of all the honors in the world. "

- Fidel Castro , a few days after the arrest

Castro declined to comment on the pair's alleged espionage, but added that if so, they should be extolled for it.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CNN : Ex-State official, wife accused of spying for Cuba
  2. ↑ Pete Yost: In Cuban spy case, man gets life, wife 5 years . In: MSNBC , July 16, 2010. Retrieved July 17, 2010. 
  3. ↑ a b Alleged Cuban Spies Given Praise From Castro by The Huffington Post , June 8, 2009

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personal data
SURNAME Myers, Walter Kendall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US State Department official
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC