More Cuban Spies?
When Myers went to Cuba secretly he went with two other St Dept employees:
"In December 1978, KENDALL MYERS traveled on "unofficial personal travel for academic purposes" to Cuba for approximately two weeks. Two other Department of State employees traveled during the same time frame."
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We ought to find out who those other two were as they're likely spies too. I'll bet our State Dept and CIA are riddled with spies for enemy nations. This article identifies another possible spy, Fulbright Armstrong.
By Jennifer Verner
As Kendall Myers joins the pantheon of civil servant traitors who spy for totalitarian Communist regimes, Americans are left wondering, "who else is out there?" According to the FBI's affidavit in Myers' case, Cuban intelligence has been extremely active over the years-- especially in government and academic circles.
Upon hearing the news of Myers' arrest, my thoughts floated back to a very strange exchange that occurred during John Bolton's senate confirmation hearings between Alan Foley, former chief of the CIA's WINPAC, and Janice O'Connell, staffer for Chris Dodd:
Ms. O'Connell: Do you remember having a conversation with the NIO for Latin America?
8 Mr. Foley: Yeah, but this is later. I think the first time I met the NIO -- the first time I met the NIO LA was in the context of the -- a memo he was writing on the Niger business. So, this would have been early '03, I guess, or somewhere in that time frame. And he had written a memo -- I can't remember what art form it was -- a NIC memo, or 14 something like that -- where, basically, he said, "Look, the from a political analyst's perspective, the notion that the Nigerians would sell yellow cake to the Iraqis is just crazy." I mean, I'm paraphrasing. He didn't say it -- I mean, he said it much more eloquently. And my analyst, I remember, came to me and said, you know, "We're concerned about this memo, because he doesn't even acknowledge other information we have that suggested maybe they did." And so, I remember the NIO coming down to my office, and I think a couple of my analysts were there, and I made the case to him. I said, "Look, you may not agree with this, but I think, analytically, you ought to at least acknowledge that there are these other reports, and, you know, give your reasons why you think they're ridiculous, and then move on." But to just ignore this is a little bit arrogant, because it's, sort of, saying, "Anybody who could fall for this stuff is just totally naive about what goes on in Niger," and it sort of gives an incomplete picture. So I think that --
15 Mr. Levine: Why would the NIO LA be talking about Africa?
17 Mr. Foley: Wasn't he -- didn't he have Africa in his portfolio? Africa, Latin America?
1 Mr. Levine: I don't think so.
2 Mr. Foley: I thought he did, Ed.
3 Mr. Levine: I won't necessarily rule it out.
4 Ms. O'Connell: It's news to me. It's news to me.
5 Mr. Levine: I believe there was a separate NIO for Africa.
7 Mr. Foley: Well, you know, that's interesting. That's my recollection. The first time I met him had to do with this Niger memo.[1]
<n>What was the National Intelligence Officer for Latin America doing in the office of the head of WINPAC, complaining about Niger? Great Question, especially when considering the political turmoil caused by "Plamegate" and the forged Niger yellow cake documents.
Let's remember, Myers not only harmed national security by passing on highly classified information. He also damaged American foreign policy by undermining confidence in the Bush administration. Would anyone have paid any attention to his infamous speech on Anglo-American affairs if they had known of his special relationship with the Castro Brothers? Were CIA agents in Castro's hire guilty of the same types of crimes?
As we now know, the NIO LA was Fulton Armstrong, a veteran CIA agent whom many feel torpedoed John Bolton's nomination to the UN. Armstrong has since retired from the CIA, and is a staffer for Chris Dodd -- the Senate's most vocal proponent for lifting the embargo against Cuba.
According to Scott Carmichael of the Defense Intelligence Agency , Norman Bailey and Paul Cerepso, in a seminar given to the American Enterprise Institute in May of 2007, Fulton Armstrong was considered a "vigorous supporter" of Fidel Castro within intelligence circles. He was also on a first name basis with, and a supporter of the work and analysis of notorious Cuban Agent Ana Belen Montes, who infiltrated the Defense Intelligence Agency, and was arrested and convicted in 2001.[2]
Indeed, Armstrong's advocacy for Cuba was so disturbing that Former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger Noriega refused to work with him. John Bolton voiced support for Armstrong's removal because he completely lost confidence after Armstrong fought to downplay evidence that Cuba was developing biological warfare capabilities.
Is Fulton Armstrong spying for Fidel? I don't know. But I certainly hope someone in law enforcement is looking into the possibility.
Amen!
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[1] See Interview of Alan Foley with Regard to the Bolton Nomination, Wednesday, April 28, 2005, US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Washington DC.
[2] See "More Cuban Spies Lurking in the U.S." by Kenneth R Timmerman. Saturday, may 19 2007.
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