Review of the Actions Taken to Deter, Detect and Investigate the Espionage Activities of Ana Belen Montes

On September 21, 2001, following months of intense scrutiny,
Federal Bureau of lnvestigation officials arrested Ana Belen Montes at the Defense
Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C., on charges of conspiracy to commit espionage
against the United States. Ms. Montes had been an employee of the U.S. Government for
22 years and had been employed as an intelligence analyst with the Defense Intelligence
Agency for the better pa1t of those years. She was recruited by the Cuban Intelligence
Service in 1984 while employed by the Department of Justice. Montes pleaded guilty to
one count of the indictment and was sentenced to 25 years in prison on October 16, 2002.
She is currently serving her sentence at the Carswell Federal Medical Center, Fort Worth, Texas.