Monday, June 8, 2009

Shopping Carts Used by American Couple to Spy for Cuba

"Pssst. Meet me in the juice aisle. Got some top-secret info for you--and there's a sale on Oceanspray!"

That's seems to have been the preferred method for couple Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers--retired State Department employees--to pass U.S. secrets to Cuban agents. But according to Gwendolyn, they recently stopped using the grocery cart method because of all the cameras now in stores.

But it worked for nearly 30 years! Of course, the State Department is pissed and says the breach of security is "incredibly serious." I suppose--but based on what? We're still here, Cuba's still on the brink of collapse. Yeah, whatever secrets were handed over couldn't have been all that important. I'm just saying...

Still the couple--now in their 70s--may get 30-some years in prison if convicted. And this revelation may halt recent progress on immigration talks between the U.S. and Cuba. And just when we were all starting to get along!

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