Rolando Sarraff Trujillo
Rolando Sarraff Trujillo was convicted of espionage in Cuba who spent almost twenty years in prison.[1] Trujillo worked as a cryptanalyst for the Cuban Directorate of Intelligence. He was recruited by the Defence Intelligence Agency, one the USA's sixteen intelligence agencies, one under the umbrella of the Department of Defense. Trujillo was arrested in November 1995, and was released in a prisoner swap on December 18, 2014, when United States President Barack Obama reopened diplomatic relations with Cuba. He had been sentenced to serve 25 year sentence.[2]
Although DIA officials wouldn't describe his role in detail, Brian P. Hale said Trujillo was '“instrumental in the identification and disruption of several Cuban intelligence operatives in the United States and ultimately led to a series of successful federal espionage prosecutions.”[2] Newsweek magazine reported he had played a key role in the USA's capture of Ana Belen Montes Walter Kendall Myers, Gwendolyn Myers, and members of the Red Avispa network, including the some members of the Cuban Five.
Newsweek reported that Trujillo's betrayal was considered so damaging he would have faced execution if it weren't for his parents being loyal senior Cuban intelligence officials.[2]
Yahoo News reported, on December 19, that Trujillo's parents said he had not contacted them after his release.[3] His sister Katia said he had been a journalist and artist.
References
- ↑ Mark Mazzetti, Michael S. Schmidt, Frances Robles (2014-12-18). "Crucial Spy in Cuba Paid a Heavy Cold War Price". New York Times. p. A1. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/world/americas/cia-mole-now-out-of-prison-helped-us-identify-cuban-spies.html?emc=edit_th_20141219&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=8280832&_r=0. Retrieved 2014-12-19. "He was, in many ways, a perfect spy — a man so important to Cuba’s intelligence apparatus that the information he gave to the Central Intelligence Agency paid dividends long after Cuban authorities arrested him and threw him in prison for nearly two decades."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jeff Stein (2014-12-17). "The American Spy Traded in the U.S.-Cuba Diplomatic Breakthrough". Newsweek magazine. Archived from the original on 2014-12-19. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Famerican-spy-traded-us-cuba-diplomatic-breakthrough-293070&date=2014-12-19. "The unidentified United States spy being swapped as part of a diplomatic breakthrough between the U.S. and Cuba is almost certainly a former cryptographer in Cuba’s Directorate of Intelligence who worked secretly for the CIA until he was arrested on espionage charges in the mid-1990s, according to a former U.S. intelligence officer and other sources."
- ↑ Andrea Rodriguez (2014-12-19). "Spy's parents search for sone after US-Cuba deal". Yahoo News. http://news.yahoo.com/spys-parents-search-son-cuba-us-deal-011541693.html. Retrieved 2014-12-19.
