In one of his open letters, titled ‘Reflections of Comrade Fidel’, which are regularly published on Granma the Cuban government’s newspaper, Fidel Castro let’s the world know, what he thinks of Cuban spies in America.
Ridiculous Answer to a Defeat
Yesterday afternoon, while I was analyzing at great length Obama’s speech at the Islamic University of Cairo, strange news arrived via the news agencies about the arrest of two retired persons of more than 70 years of age who were accused to have spied for the Cuban government during 30 years. Almost all important news outlets of the Western world, eight of them, ran this story.
The persons accused are Walter Kendall Myers and his wife Gwendolyn Steingraber Mysers. The first worked as specialist for European affairs; and that in 1995, 14 years ago, they traveled to Cuba, at that occasion they were received by me. During that time, I have met thousands of Northamericans for different motives, individually and in groups, occasionally with groups of several hundereds of them, as, for example, the students that traveled to Cuba in cruise semester on the sea project, for this reason I can hardly remember details of a meeting with two persons. I realize now why George W. Bush prohibited students of the cruise to continue visisting Cuba; during many hours they talked with me, although they belonged to families of the upper middle-class.
The prosecutions maintains that the couple received numerous decorations, but admits at the same time that they never sought money or personal benefits.
