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                       Cuba Releases American Alan Gross

   by VOA News

   A senior U.S. administration official says Cuba has released American
   aid worker Alan Gross after holding him in a Cuban prison for five
   years.

   The official said Gross had been released on humanitarian grounds.

   Gross, now 65, was arrested by Cuba on December 3, 2009.  The U.S.
   Agency for International Development (USAID) subcontractor was later
   convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison for importing banned
   technology and trying to establish clandestine internet service for
   Cuban Jews.
   His wife said in a recent interview that Gross was becomingly
   increasingly despondent.
   President Barack Obama will make a statement about the release from the
   White House at noon.

   According to CNN, the president will announce a major shift in Cuba
   policy.
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