Ex-State Department Lawyer Allegedly Recruited Cuban Spy
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A former U.S. State Department lawyer helped the Communist government of Cuba recruit a spy who was inserted into the Defense Intelligence Agency in a conspiracy that began 30 years ago, the Justice Department said.
Marta Rita Velazquez, named in a nine-year-old indictment unsealed yesterday in federal court in Washington, is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit espionage. Velazquez, 55, fled the U.S. 11 years ago and is living in Stockholm, according to a Justice Department statement. The department didn’t say why it unsealed the case now.