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July 19, 2010

Couple Sentenced on Cuba Spying Conviction
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A former State Department analyst and his wife have been sentenced after
pleading guilty to acting as spies for the Cuban government. Walter
Kendall Myers was sentenced to life in prison, and his wife Gwendolyn
Steingraber Myers was sentenced to over six years. Both are in their
early seventies. In a court statement, Walter Myers said he acted to
help Cuba resist the US-led embargo, saying, "We did not intend to hurt
any individual American. Our only objective was to help the Cuban people
defend their revolution."



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