Montes was arrested on September 21, , and she subsequently was charged with conspiracy to commit espionage for the government of Cuba. Montes pleaded guilty to spying and, in October , was sentenced to a year prison term to be followed by five-years' probation. Army doctor. In , she earned a degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia , and she completed a master's degree at Johns Hopkins University 's School of Advanced International Studies in Her first assignment was at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, where she worked as an intelligence research specialist.
Prior to her arrest, she lived in a two-bedroom co-op apartment in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D. Montes advanced rapidly through the ranks at the DIA and became its most senior Cuban analyst.
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Prosecutors later would allege that Montes already was working for the Cubans when she joined the DIA in Montes was recruited by Cuban intelligence while she was a student at Johns Hopkins University in the s. She became known to other students for her strong opinions in support of left-wing Latin American movements like the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua. A Cuban agent eventually approached her. After recruiting her, the Cuban Intelligence Service groomed her to pursue employment with the Defense Intelligence Agency.
In their charging documents, federal prosecutors stated: [ 3 ]. Montes communicated with the Cuban Intelligence Service through encrypted messages and received her instructions through shortwave encrypted transmissions from Cuba. In addition, Montes communicated by coded numeric pager messages with the Cuban Intelligence Service by public telephones located in the District of Columbia and Maryland.
The codes included 'I received message' or 'danger. The prosecutors further stated that all of the information was on water-soluble paper that could be destroyed rapidly. During the course of the investigation against her, it was determined that Montes passed a considerable amount of classified information to the Cuban Intelligence Directorate , including the identities of four U. Carmichael publicly alleged that it was Ana Montes who told Cuban intelligence officers about a clandestine U.
