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Brennan reported that among the 14 people who testified were at least two of Cuba’s 1,500 Jews who provided “neutral’’ comments on Gross, according to the staffers. They spoke to El Nuevo on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the case.
Brennan did not identify the Jewish witnesses but William Miller, a computer expert who was vice president of the Beth Shalom Temple in Havana until last year, was seen entering the court building on Friday.
Gross’ wife Judy, his U.S. lawyer and a consular official from the U.S. diplomatic mission in Havana were allowed to observe the trial but were banned from taking notes on the proceedings, Brennan told the congressional staffers.
Also testifying were two unidentified “dissidents’’ recently unveiled as Cuban intelligence agents, Brennan reported. They are presumed to have been Carlos Serpa and Moisés Rodríguez, revealed last week as spies who infiltrated several dissident groups.
Brennan and State Department spokespersons could not be reached for comment on this story by Tuesday evening.
Rep. Rivera, meanwhile, sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday complaining that Brennan had said that there is no planned U.S. government response “to the all but certain conviction and sentencing of Mr. Gross.”
“Brennan explained that the position of the Obama administration is to ‘play it careful and safe, not to overreact’ and in this case to ‘hope
does the right thing,”’ the letter noted.
Most Cuba analysts expect Gross will be convicted and sentenced, but then will be freed within months as a “humanitarian gesture.”
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