Ana Belen Montes
| Ana Montes | |
|---|---|
 |
|
|
|
|
| Birth name | Ana Belén Montes |
| Born |
February 28, 1957 West Germany |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Intelligence analyst/Spy |
| Alma mater |
University of Virginia Johns Hopkins University |
Ana Belén Montes (born February 28, 1957) is a former American senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency in the United States and convicted spy. On September 21, 2001, she was arrested and subsequently charged with conspiracy to commit espionage for the government of Cuba. Montes eventually pleaded guilty to spying and in October 2002, was sentenced to a 25-year prison term followed by five years' probation.
Montes was born in West Germany, where her father, Alberto Montes, was posted as a United States Army doctor. Her family was of Asturian origins, and her grandparents had emigrated to Puerto Rico. The family later lived in Topeka, Kansas and then Towson, Maryland, where she graduated from Loch Raven High School in 1975. In 1979 she earned a degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia, and in 1988 she finished a master's degree at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Montes' brother and sister, Tito and Lucy, became FBI officers and her former boyfriend, Roger Corneretto, was an intelligence officer specializing in Cuba for the Pentagon.
Montes joined the DIA in September 1985 after working for the United States Department of Justice. Her first assignment was at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington where she worked as an intelligence research specialist. In 1992, Montes was selected for the DIA's Exceptional Analyst Program and later traveled to Cuba to study the Cuban military.
...
Wikipedia