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How Did Ana Monte Study In Prison
Ana Montes is in prison for a little over a decade now. Once a highly decorated U.S. intelligence analyst, Montes today lives in a two-bunk cell in the highest-security women’s prison in the nation. Montes spied for seventeen years, patiently, methodically. She passed along so many secrets about her colleagues and the advanced methods and eavesdropping platforms that American agents had covertly installed in Cuba. Montes’s motivation for spying was pure ideology she disagreed with U.S. foreign policy. After her arrest, she stated that what she did was morally right. Montes accepted no money for passing classified information, except for reimbursements for some expenses. Ana Montes successfully committed treason and espionage going undetected …show more content…
Army base. Ana Montes is the eldest child of Emilia and Alberto Montes. Puerto Rico-born Alberto was a respected Army doctor, and the family moved frequently, from Germany to Kansas to Iowa. They settled in Towson, outside Baltimore, where Alberto developed a successful private psychiatric practice and Emilia became a leader in the local Puerto Rican community. Ana thrived in Maryland. Slender, bookish and witty, she graduated with a 3.9 GPA from Loch Raven High School; even with that success, she masked a growing emotional distance, grandiose feelings of superiority and a troubling family secret. To outsiders, Alberto was a caring and well-educated father of four. However, behind closed doors, he was short-tempered and bullied his children. Alberto “happened to believe that he had the right to beat his kids,” Ana would later tell CIA psychologists. “He was the king of the castle and demanded complete and total obedience.” The beatings started at five. Her dad had a violent temper they will get it with the belt whenever he got …show more content…
According to the declassified DoD (Department of Defense) IG (Inspector General) report, In March 1985 she made a clandestine trip to Cuba, via Madrid and Prague when she agreed to provide the Cubans with a short autobiography. When she returned from the trip, she ran into her friend Ana Colon and discussed the secret trip with her, after Montes settled in the DIA she discontinued contact with Colon who later found out through the FBI that the secret trip was in fact for her training as a spy. In 1996, Montes broke protocol during an ongoing international incident, when the Cuban Military brought down a plane, which involved Brothers to the Rescue organization and the subsequent death of four Americans while flying in international waters. The pentagon called Montes in to receive her expertise in the area and suddenly she felt sick and had to leave between eight and ten P.M. When Montes left the pentagon without dismissal, it raised

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