Universal Ramblings

Walter Kendall Myers, 72, allegedly known as “Agent 202″ to Cuban officials, and his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, 71, allegedly known to Cuban officials as “Agent 123″ and “Agent E-634,” were indicted on charges of conspiracy to spy for the Cuban government and passing along classified information, an indictment and criminal complaint unsealed Friday in Washington said.

Kendall Myers, who had top secret clearance, traveled to Cuba in December 1978 after being invited by an official at the Cuban mission to the United States in New York. This trip allegedly provided the Cuban Intelligence Service a chance to assess or develop Myers as a Cuban agent.

The Cuban mission official contacted the Myers six months later, when they couple agreed to act as spies. Kendall Myers retired in 2007, officials allege.

The couple have been charged with conspiracy to act as illegal agents of the Cuban government and with communicating classified information to Cuba.

The indictment says the pair met with Cuban President Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1995, traveling through Mexico under false names. They allegedly made several other trips to Latin America and the Caribbean to meet with Cuban agents.

Kendall Myers worked at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, where he specialized in European matters, before retiring in 2007. The indictment says in his last year of employment, Kendall Myers viewed more than 200 intelligence reports related to Cuba.