Queen of Cuba av Peter J. Lapp

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<B>As a spy prepared to give away America’s biggest secrets after the 9/11 attacks, an FBI agent raced to catch her.</B><BR><BR>U.S. government officials knew they had a spy. But it never occurred to them it was a woman—and certainly not a superstar Defense Intelligence Agency employee known as “the Queen of Cuba.”<BR><BR>Ana Montes had spent seventeen years spying for the Cubans. She had been raised in a patriotic Puerto Rican household: Her father, a psychiatrist, was a former colonel in the U.S. Army. Her sister worked as a translator for the FBI and helped break up a ring of Cuban spies in Miami. Her brother was also a loyal FBI agent.<BR><BR>Montes impressed her bosses, but in secret, spent her breaks memorizing top secret documents before sending them to the Cuban government. She received no payment, even as one of her missives could have brought her the death penalty.<BR><BR>She also listened to anxiety-relief tapes, took medication, and saw a psychiatris