The Mountain Climber Cia Spy. From the cuban side the account of alleged cia espionage portrayed a spy vs spy saga of heroic cuban double agents duping the cia for as long as 20 years feeding false information to money. And the mountain climber was this legendary cia operative who was witness to some of the most extraordinary events of the last 25 years.
Ana belén montes born february 28 1957 is a former american senior analyst at the defense intelligence agency in the united states and a convicted spy on september 21 2001 she was arrested and subsequently charged with conspiracy to commit espionage for the government of cuba montes eventually pleaded guilty to spying and in october 2002 was sentenced to a 25 year prison term followed. In theory it was an ideal place to put sensor devices and spy on china. It also nearly ended in complete failure.
In 1965 schaller was part of an american spy team that tried to place a nuclear powered.
During the cold war aldrich ames one of the most senior officers in the cia s soviet counterintelligence agency was working as a double agent for the soviet union. Her story has gone largely untold. El alpinista was intrigued when he heard that a cuban official had defected. The cia had to rely on much rougher methods like climbing the himalayan mountains.