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We must be living through a Glorious Age of Progressive Values: now the FBI is ferreting out Communist spies in the State Department: Ex-State Department Official, Wife Face Cuba Spy Charges

A former U.S. State Department official and his wife have been arrested for spying for the Cuban government for nearly 30 years, the Justice Department said on Friday.

Walter Kendall Myers, 72, aided by his wife Gwendolyn Myers, 71, used his Top Secret security clearance to pass on classified information to the Cuban government and at one point met with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, according to court documents

What's amazing (to me) is that Walter Myers was recruited, and essentially told "go get a job at the Yanqui State Department and start spying!"

"Yes, sir! Right away, sir!"

According to court documents, the two were recruited in 1979 by a Cuban official who directed Kendall Myers to pursue a job at either the State Department or the CIA.

Myers worked part-time at the State Department since 1977 and joined full-time in 1985, eventually working his way up to a position of senior analyst specializing in intelligence analysis on European matters.

With a Top Secret/SCI security clearance, he had daily access to classified information and viewed more than 200 intelligence reports about Cuba, according to the affidavit.

He retired in 2007.

Gwendolyn Myers worked at a bank. The two received messages from the Cuban government via shortwave radio and hand-passed messages, and typically passed their responses to handlers by hand.

Gwendolyn Myers said her favorite way to pass information was by swapping carts at a grocery story, according to the affidavit filed by an FBI agent

Aw, that's nice. None dare call it treason, nor does anyone seem to think that these two are Communists, but we here at Free Will believe in calling a spade a spade and these two give every indication of being motivated by ideology, even if they say they were just trying to "help" Cuba.

A Justice Department official said they were motivated by a desire to help the Cuban government, not money. They traveled occasionally to Cuba and other locations across Latin America to meet with their handlers, and met Castro in 1995.

Kendall Myers told an undercover FBI source posing as a Cuban intelligence officer he had received "lots of medals" from the Cuban government.

What a peculiar life. A couple of progressive retirees, quietly living out their days in DC, fingering their Cuban medals and reminiscing about their meeting with The Beard.

To hear the Left tell it, there are no more communists. But, Cuba is still one of the Left's crown jewels, and Castro one of its Aging Lions. There are sitting US Congressmen who visit Cuba and declare it glorious. There are wealthy First World film makers who visit Cuba and declare that it is an example that "we" must follow. And, there is a seemingly endless supply of spies eager to "help" Cuba in its lonely fight against the Empire. They can't be blind to Cubas's manifest flaws: its poverty, its sexual exploitation, its gulags, its secret police, its political prisoners, its stultifying one party rule. These are well-known and beyond dispute. The Myers - and the rest of the Left - support all of that when they support Cuba and Castro. Isn't it time to stop pussyfooting around and simply call them communists until further notice?