and even native Cuba

People's Network on July 17 Xinhua 16, a U.S. District Court sentenced a potential 30 years in the U.S. State Department's "senior Cuban spies" life imprisonment, who wife was sentenced to six years in prison. It is reported that the 名叫迈尔斯 man aged 73, served in the U.S. State Department engaged in intelligence analysis. His wife, aged 72 years.

"Washington Post" reported that Myers couple will pay 1,700,000 U.S. dollars the government fine (including Myers himself all the while working in the federal wage). However, the U.S. government will not confiscate Myers couple to buy a yacht. At the trial, the old couple have said they intended to take the ship "defected to Cuba."

In the verdict, the court accused an elderly couple "to Cuba passed a large number of U.S. national security secrets about intelligence", it must return the government to provide them with all the benefits. It is reported that, taking into account their advanced age, the court specifically allowed the two old people "near the prison," and was able to get more opportunities to visit relatives.

Myers, after listening to the judge's ruling said that he intended to harm any American. His passing information to Cuba, just to help the Cuban people "to defend the revolutionary achievements" and prevent its destruction by the United States government. The spy case publicly pronounced, as the recent staging of the spy affair in Washington turns Adds a "a strong."

Information, Myers is a graduate of an American elite of Europe expert. He started in 1977 working in the U.S. State Department. Since 1985, he became devoted to the analysis of intelligence and information confidential high-level experts. The United States said in 1978, Myers was the Cuban intelligence incite defection successful, then began to provide various information to Cuba.

U.S. survey found that couples often use short-wave radio Myers, exchange supermarket shopping cart, through the Internet cafe to send encrypted e-mail and other methods to deliver its agents to Cuba to collect information. The couple also with Cuban agents in Brazil, Ecuador, Jamaica, Italy, and even native Cuba (via Mexico to) meet.

U.S. says intelligence agencies in Cuba Myers internal code-named "202", his wife, code-named "123." It is noteworthy that this child the couple never received any money provided by the Government of Cuba in return to grant Cuba, but accept their medals, and in 1995 by Cuban leader Fidel Castro's personal interview.

In 2006, the United States captured a Cuban spy, and ultimately deeper investigation in April 2009 found the Myers couples. At the time, FBI agent posing as Cuban intelligence officers and Myers joint, then gave him a well-known Cuban cigar as a 72-year-old birthday. Myers did not know of a secret tape recorder hidden in cigars.

Is such a "tape recorder cigars," so that FBI agents found in Myers and Cuba, "fornication" substantial evidence, and eventually brought to court. Allegedly, Myers retired the first 15 months of job opportunities have been used, save in his office computer from more than 200 confidential documents of different intelligence agencies.

Court judgments, said Myers himself well-born. His great-grandfather was the famous telephone inventor Bell. His grandfather was the chairman of the National Geographic Society. His father is a heart surgeon. However, Myers chose "sentenced to the motherland," the road, dead set on spying for Cuba, and "till death do us."

Prosecutors said in the indictment, because his wife was arrested Miles explain the problem in time "evasive" and fail to provide much valuable information and can not let them enjoy the "frank" treatment. Thus, while the old couple have been over seventy years of age and poor health, still must be sent to prison.

Myers couple's relatives, friends and colleagues said, this is a very good children for the elderly, but a bit "too idealistic." They serve as a Cuban spy is not for the money, two rights do not map more than anything out of resentment. They just want their actions to achieve their mind, "social justice." (High Yi Jun)