‘Code Name Blue Wren’ is the astounding story of DIA mole Ana Montes, told by a veteran investigative reporter
by John Dinges
Ana Belen Montes, the most effective and damaging Cuban spy known to have penetrated U.S. intelligence, was a major warrior in the long nasty war between the United States and its communist neighbor. On Jan. 6, after serving 20 years of a 25 year sentence for espionage, she was released from a maximum security prison, perhaps drawing the curtain on the deadly clandestine conflict involving efforts by Cuban exiles and their U.S. allies to reverse the revolution led by Fidel Castro.
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| This is Ana Montes in Washington in 1990. When this photo was taken she had been Cuba’s top spy as well as the top U. S. Cuban expert for seven years, a dual role that would continue for another decade! [Photo: Special Arrangement] |
By the time of her arrest in 2001, Montes had been a…
