US couple admit spying for Cuba
20 November 2009
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A retired US state department official and his wife have admitted spying for Cuba for nearly three decades.
The former official, Walter Kendall Myers, 72, had access to top-secret government information.
Under a plea deal, Mr Myers will spend the rest of his life in jail while wife Gwendolyn, 71, will serve a term of no more than seven-and-a-half years.
She pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of conspiracy to gather and transmit national defence information to Cuba.
The couple also agreed to forfeit $1.7m (
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