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Spies for Cuba plead guilty, one gets life in prison

A retired State Department employee and his wife pleaded guilty Friday to a 30-year conspiracy to provide classified information from the U.S. to Cuba.

Walter Kendall Myers, 72 -- also known as ``Agent 202'' -- agreed to a life sentence without parole and to cooperate with federal prosecutors. His wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, 71 -- known as ``Agent 123'' and ``Agent E-634'' -- agreed to a sentence of between 6 and 7 ½ years in prison, and will also continue to cooperate with the government.

They were charged in June with wire fraud, serving as illegal agents for Cuba and conspiring to deliver classified information.

The curious case of Kendall Myers, alleged spy

Retired State Department employee Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, told friends they had summer plans to take their 37-foot yacht north last weekend, up the picturesque coastline to New England.

Instead, the couple waits in a federal jail for trial, charged with 30 years of spying on the United States for the country's longtime antagonist, the Communist regime of Cuba.

And friends and colleagues are left to reconcile the gregarious, well-read couple they knew with federal charges that allege a life of duplicity -- of shadowy intrigue involving coded messages to Havana and clandestine contacts with Cuba's spy agency.

The curious case of alleged Cuban spy Kendall Myers

Retired State Department employee Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn, told friends they had summer plans to take their 37-foot yacht north last weekend, up the picturesque coastline to New England.

Instead, the couple waits in a federal jail for trial, charged with 30 years of spying on the United States for the country's longtime antagonist, the communist regime of Cuba.

And friends and colleagues are left to reconcile the gregarious, well-read couple they knew with federal charges that allege a life of duplicity -- of shadowy intrigue involving coded messages to Havana and clandestine contacts with Cuba's spy agency.

Convicted Cuban spy's life sentence reduced to 22 years

A convicted Cuban intelligence agent who infiltrated the Boca Chica Naval Air Station in Key West -- but didn't obtain or pass along state secrets to his handlers in Havana -- saw his life sentence reduced to approximately 22 years on Tuesday.

Antonio Guerrero, convicted of espionage conspiracy in the highly publicized prosecution of the so-called ``Cuban Five'' spy defendants in 2001, had reached an agreement with the U.S. attorney's office to lower his sentence to 20 years.

But U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard rejected the proposed agreement as too lenient, sentencing Guerrero to two months shy of 22 years. She noted that although Guerrero did not obtain top secret information from the U.S. government, ``the evidence did indicate that he very much wanted to.''

Cuban spy's life sentence reduced to 30 years

A spy case that exploded after Cuba's 1996 shoot-down of two Miami exile planes over the Florida Straits formally ended Tuesday, when a federal judge reduced the prison sentences of two convicted Castro agents.

U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard lowered Ramón Labañino's life sentence to 30 years in prison, based on an agreement between prosecutors and the defendant's attorney in the Cuban Five espionage case.

Lenard originally sentenced Labañino to life after his espionage conspiracy conviction in 2001. But an appellate court overturned the sentence because Labañino did not actually gather and send any classified materials to his handlers in Havana.