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debriefers that she desired to protect Cuba from the United States and that she believed that "all the world is one country." In a 2013 letter from prison to a friend, Montes wrote that "I believe that the morality of espionage is relative. The activity always betrays someone, and some observers will think that it is justified and others not, in every case."
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Code Name Blue Wren: The True Story of
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126:Conspiracy to commit espionage (18 U.S.C. § 794)
751:"Ana Montes, la asturiana que espiĂł para Fidel"
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