I forget who I was talking to reciently, but they mentioned that they had not heard about the NGO worker in Cuba arrested under spy charges many months ago. Anyway, here's an update:
US has visited man nabbed by Cuba as a 'spy' (AFP)
DATELINE: Washington, June 2 2010
US authorities have been able to visit on five occasions the American contractor arrested in Cuba in December whom Havana claims is a spy, despite a US denial, a State Department spokesman said Wednesday.
"We have been granted access to Alan Gross in Cuba five times, the most recent consular access being on May 25th," spokesman Philip Crowley told reporters. "And we continue to ask that Mr Gross be released immediately, on humanitarian grounds, and be al-lowed to return to his family," the US spokesman said.
Gross worked for an NGO contracted by the State Department to supply computer and communications material to civil society groups on the island, according to the United States. Cuba insists however he is a spy who had sophisticated communications equipment for dissidents in the Americas' only one-party Communist regime.
The US company that employed the contractor, Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), also denied the es-pionage charges. Gross was arrested December 5, reportedly while distributing cell phones, laptops and other communications equipment.
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