they actually met fidel castro. that was something we were not aware of, obviously and was a significant indicator how valuable kendall and gwen were to the cubans. he was castro s most valuable spy in the u.s. government. he compromised hundreds of millions of dollars of operations. he identified specifically the names of both covert and overt u.s. government intelligence officers. there was no diplomatic initiative that castro didn t know ahead of time what america s hand was. castro should have made every single one of our moves. how do you think he made seven presidents? he was the personal spy for fidel castro. not all american citizens take an oath of allegiance. but he took an oath of allegiance to the u.s. government to protect the u.s.
about working with kendall to obtain classified information and send it to the cubans. gwen was more really involved in operations, she was involved in dead drops, passes, processing information that kendall had had remove frumd the state department. she is a 100% co conspirator. so we now started to build up a file on who he met with times and dates, spy craft and we pass the information to. we learned the full story of kendall s recruitment. we told our undercover the same cuban intelligence officer that invited kend tool travel to cuba in 1978 then travelled to south dakota where kendall was living in 1979. and what the cuban intelligence service officer did was walk right up to kendall and gwen s door, knock on the door and introduce himself.
when i saw this medical record. i couldn t believe it and this is where i think all doubt in my miepd was removed. this was beyond coincidence. we could have charged them with being foreign agents, false statements but none of those charges in our mind held them accountable for what they did and quite frankly didn t come with the penalty we thought that they deserved. shortly after the fbi searched, we found out that kendall was signing up for a course on how to do over the horizon sailing. so there was a legitimate fear on the part of the investigative group that that might be one of their modes of escape is to calmly go out to the boat and sail home and home for them was
the only person that ever 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 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 details. so kendall told the under cover his code name was 202. it s the area code for d.c. he started to explain how laughingly so they used to share information at the shopping carts. and they would copy them and bring them back. his wife also made admissions
numbers. we make history every time. april 15th will be another historic day for us. this raise for the 10% of mcdonald s employees actually just shows us that we re winning here. we re going to keep pushing and keep growing because we know this has shown us that organizing and sticking together and taking it to the streets is actually working for us. so kendall, as the organizer here i want to ask you why target businesses when you could easily target lawmakers? we ve seen seattle and other places successful efforts to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour. why focus on corporate behemoths. when you look at mcdonald s there s about a $1 billion price tag that taxpayers are paying to subsidize mcdonald s. because mcdonald s employs over half on public assistance can t afford food shelter and clothing, the taxpayers are picking up that bill. mcdonald s has a responsibility when they re making $5 billion,