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Cuban agent due for U.S. release to be deported, lawyer says
Source: Reuters
Cuban agent due for U.S. release to be deported, lawyer says
BY ZACHARY FAGENSON
MIAMI Wed Jan 29, 2014 6:00pm EST
(Reuters) - A Cuban intelligence agent, jailed for 15 years for spying on Cuban-American exiles in Miami, is due to be freed next month and is expected to be deported back to the Caribbean island country, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
Fernando Gonzalez, 50, was arrested by the FBI in 1998 along with four other Cuban agents who were convicted in 2001 of 26 counts of spying on behalf of Fidel Castro's government.
The case of the "Cuban Five" is widely considered an impediment to improving the hostile relations between the United States and Cuba, separated by only 90 miles of sea.
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He is due to be released from a jail in Arizona on February 27 and moved to an immigration facility before deportation, according his Miami lawyer Richard Klugh.
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BY ZACHARY FAGENSON
MIAMI Wed Jan 29, 2014 6:00pm EST
(Reuters) - A Cuban intelligence agent, jailed for 15 years for spying on Cuban-American exiles in Miami, is due to be freed next month and is expected to be deported back to the Caribbean island country, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
Fernando Gonzalez, 50, was arrested by the FBI in 1998 along with four other Cuban agents who were convicted in 2001 of 26 counts of spying on behalf of Fidel Castro's government.
The case of the "Cuban Five" is widely considered an impediment to improving the hostile relations between the United States and Cuba, separated by only 90 miles of sea.
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He is due to be released from a jail in Arizona on February 27 and moved to an immigration facility before deportation, according his Miami lawyer Richard Klugh.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/29/us-cuba-usa-agent-idUSBREA0S26E20140129
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