As a spy prepared to give away America\'s biggest secrets after the 9/11 attacks, an FBI agent raced to catch her.
Lapp explains the clues--including never-released information--that led their team to catch one of the United States\' most dangerous spies..
Retired FBI agent Peter J.
They couldn\'t know the FBI was already on to her.
After the 9/11 attacks, Cuba wanted Montes to continue her work.
He had no idea that, three times a week, Montes pulled a short-wave radio from her closet and received encrypted messages from Cuba.
She dreamed of getting married, and even had a man in mind: a defense analyst on the Cuba Account for Southern Command.
She dreamed of a normal life where she could work a job she enjoyed.
She also listened to anxiety-relief tapes, took medication, and saw a psychiatrist.
She received no payment, even as one of her missives could have brought her the death penalty.
Montes impressed her bosses, but in secret, spent her breaks memorizing top secret documents before sending them to the Cuban government.
Her brother was also a loyal FBI agent.
Her sister worked as a translator for the FBI and helped break up a ring of Cuban spies in Miami.
Army.
She had been raised in a patriotic Puerto Rican household: Her father, a psychiatrist, was a former colonel in the U.
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Ana Montes had spent seventeen Years spying for the Cubans.
But it never occurred to them it was a woman--and certainly not a superstar Defense Intelligence Agency employee known as the Queen of Cuba. government officials knew they had a spy.
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As a spy prepared to give away America\'s biggest secrets after the 9/11 attacks, an FBI agent raced to catch her
