Former U.S. State Department employee accused of spying for Cuba.

A former senior U.S. State Department and his wife arrested on suspicion of spying for Cuba, said on Friday, June 5, representatives of American law enforcement authorities, sends AFP.

72-year-old Kendell Walter Myers (Walter Kendall Myers) and his 71-year-old wife, Gwendolyn (Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers) were taken into custody in Washington on Thursday, June 4, as a result of operation conducted by agents of the FBI, working under cover. On Friday, former State Department officer and his wife were charged with transferring secret information the Cuban side, the report says, distributed the U.S. Department of Justice. According to aggregate the charges against Myers, they face no less than 30 years in prison.

According to preliminary data, Myers and his wife spied for Cuba for 30 years. Walter Kendell Myers worked at the U.S. Department of State from 1977 to 2007. In 1985, Myers was allowed access to classified information, and in 1999 - he had access to particularly sensitive documents.

Myers came into contact with the Cuban secret services in 1978 during a visit to Cuba at the invitation of the American Embassy. Half a year later Myers house in South Dakota, visited the special representative, and the couple agreed to spy for Cuba, said the Ministry of Justice, United States.

Myers was given the code name "Agent 202", while his wife was "Agent 123". Messaging to Cuba a couple of spies led through shortwave radio, using the Morse alphabet, reports Associated Press.Supruga Myers, a consultant at the bank, also leave messages in the stores in Washington and its suburbs. In addition, the couple met with Cuban agents during a trip to South America and the Caribbean countries. In recent years, Myers was used for transmission of sensitive information, e-mail.

Former State Department officer after the arrest said that the secret information that he sent to Cuba, remember it by rote or take notes. "I have always been careful not to make instruments" - cites AFP protocol questioning Myers. Only in the last year before retirement, notes the AP, Myers revealed the contents of Cuba, 200 classified documents Foreign Affairs United States.

According to American law enforcement officials, Cuban authorities have been awarded medals spouse Myers, a v1995 with a pair of year, according to preliminary data, met Fidel Castro, the then president.

Hold a pair of spies, the AP, was able, after the April 2009, they contacted an FBI agent, posing as a Cuban spy. Myers believed "lzhe-spy" and had several meetings with him in hotels in Washington.