Anna montes had a younger brother named tito, who was an fbi agent. His job was to go up against spies like his girl friend. Montez's boy friend worked for the pendagon as well. He had no idea. Her supervisor was devastated. The chief of her section called her co workers together and told them the news. People started crying in disbelief. She doesn't know what to say. Otel says he never once suspected she was a spy. On the contrary, there were c i officers of my rank or close to my rank, who thought she was the best cuban analist there was. I never trusted her, but for the wrong reasons. And
On February 24, 1996, Cuban fighter jets shot down two small planes operated by Brothers to the Rescue, an organization in Florida that tried to spot refugees fleeing Cuba in boats. A strange chain of events preceded the shoot-down, and people in the intelligence business turned to a rising star in the Defense Intelligence Agency, Ana Montes. Montes was known around Washington as the “Queen of Cuba” for her insights into the Castro regime. But what Montes’ colleagues eventually found out about her shook their sense of trust to the core. (In this excerpt from Malcolm Gladwell’s forthcoming audiobook Talking to Strangers, we hear why spy mysteries do not unfold in real life like they do in the movies.)
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