and that s what we had to try to do. and he did not do it. so he was not removing classified documents from his office and walking out of the building. we were all convinced it s him. but no counterintelligence, no espionage indicators. so kendall s had had no activity, no contact. it appeared that they were no longer operational. they weren t continuing to provide the cubans with intelligence. that presented us with a problem of not being able to catch them in the act if they re not still active. it doesn t matter, what matters is that at one time or another they chose to betray their country and we re going to identify them and prosecute them if we can, regardless of how
mentioned anything about something not being right, gwen did say at one point hey, do you think this is all right? and kendall said absolutely. this is good. it s my birthday. cuban cigar. gwen may have had had some reservations but kendall convinced her everything was okay. after the initial meeting in the hotel bar, there were three more meetings we had with kendall with our undercover. during the discussions they were confirming operational detail. so he told the undercover his code name was 202. it s the area code for d.c. he started to explain how laughingly so they shared information at the shopping karts. and they would copy them and bring them back. his wife also made admissions
concerned, he was a model employee. he did his job magnificently. he was a well-respected analyst in the office of intelligence and research. so kendall was an analyst for the state department, but this wasn t a case of the state department being penetrated, that was a case of the intelligence community being penetrated. kendall myers worked in the intelligence community portion of the state department, so he had access to intelligence reporting for all intelligence agencies. unfortunately, the office of intelligence research known as i&r gets all the information from the entire intelligence community. cia, dia, nsar imagery, everything. that s why he could have been the most damaging cuban spy castro had. so after we established that kendall was likely one of the
so he was not removing classified documents from his office and walking out of the building. we were all convinced it s him. but no counterintelligence, no espionage indicators. so kendall s had no activity, no contact. it appeared that they were no longer operational. they weren t continuing to provide the cubans with intelligence. that presented us with a problem of not being able to catch them in the act if they re not still active. it doesn t matter, what matters is that at one time or another they chose to betray their country and we re going to identify them and prosecute them if we can, regardless of how long they ve been dormant. so at that point we were only going to be able to show historical espionage activity,
his 1978 trip to cuba and conveyed a very positive image of cuba, a very negative image of the united states. it was a glowing report about the cuban revolution, how the people are doing well. castro s a great leader. it essentially conveyed kendall s infatuation with cuba. kendall s diary was critical. the next piece in evidence was stunning. in a filing cabinet in their closet, there was a record that indicate gwen a tumor on her shoulder in late 1996 that was a matrix point that we were looking for. we knew that one of the cuban agents had a tumor on their shoulder. i had had chills up my spine