Foreign Affairs Friday: Cuban Spies

Stratfor has a story about the State Department employees who spent 30 years spying for Cuba. The story compares the Myers to Ana Montes, another spy for Cuba who was caught in 2001. In both cases, ideology was the motivator, as opposed to money or ego, which are other common motivators. What the hell these people saw in Cuba that they thought was so desirable is beyond me.

Power Line has a story about the rabid leftist views of Mr. Myers. Apparently, this raised no red flags among his colleagues or investigators. According to Stratfor:

[H]e was cleared for access to Top Secret material in 1985 and Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (SCI) in 1999 — 20 years after he was recruited by the Cubans. Apparently the agents and investigators who conducted his background investigations did not dig deeply enough uncover the warning signs of his radical beliefs, or the people they interviewed knowingly withheld such information.

While it is horrible that this guy and his wife got away with what they were doing for so long, their arrest is better late than never.