Dinner With Fidel: Spies With An Appetite

The US Government today arrested Walter Meyers and his wife Gwendolyn, both retired government workers, for spying for Cuba. Spying for over 30 years, ostensibly undetected.

Travelling to Cuba didn't raise a red-flag. Having dinner with Fidel Castro in Havana in 1995 didn't raise any red flags either. Or was this a case of watch and see what happens? Too often the latest spy to be discovered has actually been under surveillance for decades.

Double-agents provide a great way to disseminate disinformation and the Federal governments policy is to treat its agents as an expendable commodity. Planning a career as a CIA agent? Career is the operative word, pun intended.

There is no real career opportunity in US intelligence. Each agent is viewed as a tool, a means to an end. Doesn't matter that you have served faithfully for 30 years, you can become a traitor tomorrow simply doing what you are told to do, disseminate "classified" and "top-secret" data to "foreign agents", even though the data is bogus.

The spy game is fraught with double-agents, informers and all around bad actors. Each willing to sell each other out at the earliest opportunity. There is about as much loyalty in the spy business as there is in the drug business. Perhaps spies are better trained. Assassinations are much cleaner and often less public than drug-dealers sidewalk killings. Sphere: Related Content