Two South Florida University Professors Indicted As Covert Agents of Cuban Government

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MIAMI, Jan. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Andrew Apollony, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Carol Kisthardt, Special Agent in Charge, Naval Criminal Investigative Service ("NCIS"), Southeast Field Office, announced today the return of an Indictment by a Miami federal grand jury charging defendants, Carlos Alvarez, and his wife, Elsa Alvarez, both of Miami, with being covert agents of the Republic of Cuba operating within the United States, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 951(a) and 2. If convicted, the defendants face a statutory maximum penalty of ten (10) years' imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.

According to the Indictment, for nearly thirty years, Carlos Alvarez and Elsa Alvarez served as agents of the Republic of Cuba's Directorate of Intelligence and its predecessor agencies, gathering information within the United States on matters of interest to the Cuban government, informing on anti-Castro individuals and groups and other elements of the Cuban exile community in South Florida, and carrying out other operational directives. Both defendants are employed by Florida International University, in Miami, Florida.

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Two South Florida University Professors Indicted As Covert Agents of Cuban Government

According to the Indictment, the Directorate of Intelligence provided training and technology to agents, including Carlos Alvarez and Elsa Alvarez, that would allow the rec...

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