adipocere
5th November 2013, 18:12
Awhile back I wrote a letter of solidarity to Ms. Ana Montes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Montes). Currently she is being held in a women's psychiatric federal prison for espionage. Her crime was spying for Cuba for 17 years while working in the Defense Intelligence Agency as a senior intelligence analyst. She was arrested in September 2001 and subsequently sentenced to 25 years. You can read an informative, if snarky, story about her here (http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/feature/wp/2013/04/18/ana-montes-did-much-harm-spying-for-cuba-chances-are-you-havent-heard-of-her/).
Interestingly she was also accused of being directly responsible for the death of a Green Beret in El Salvador in 1987 in that she deliberately tipped off local Cuba-backed FMLM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farabundo_Mart%C3%AD_National_Liberation_Front) guerrillas to the presence of a US Special Forces (death-squad) training camp for Salvadoran armed forces which was then raided by the FMLM.
As a reminder of just what the Green Berets was up to in El Salvador in 1987, from the horses mouth (http://www.franksmyth.com/franksmyth-com/green-berets-in-el-salvador/):
By 1987 "our guys simply stopped reporting...up through the chain they were reporting things they felt were absolute violations, and were absolutely wrong, and they were not seeing any action taken. ...It was up to the State Department to arrest those people or to investigate those at fault... .[B]You couldn't go up to people and say '40 persons got themselves whacked over here because they were thinking of forming a workers' union. And the landowner is not into that at all, so he asked his buddy the Colonel to send a squad over and take care of the problem. [If] you did that, it was real easy to find yourself on the receiving end of a grenade, or a bomb, or a rifle bullet. So...our guys...reported the information and then just saw it disappear into that great void."Ana Montes is an extremely brave woman who has been thrown in a pit to rot for having the courage not to "just follow orders" during a capitalist genocide. Lets express our solidarity with her and write letters to let her know that we haven't forgotten about her. I have not received a reply to the letter that I sent to her in June of this year. It is entirely possible that she is not allowed to receive mail, but I am not certain.
Here is her address:
ANA BELEN MONTES #25037-016
FMC CARSWELL
FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER
P.O. BOX 27137
FORT WORTH, TX 76127
-thanks
Guidelines for contacting inmates at FMC Carswell here (http://www.bop.gov/DataSource/execute/dsFacilityAddressLoc?start=y&facilityCode=crw).
edit: I wasn't sure if this was the right place to post this, so please move it to another section if it might be more appropriate.
Interestingly she was also accused of being directly responsible for the death of a Green Beret in El Salvador in 1987 in that she deliberately tipped off local Cuba-backed FMLM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farabundo_Mart%C3%AD_National_Liberation_Front) guerrillas to the presence of a US Special Forces (death-squad) training camp for Salvadoran armed forces which was then raided by the FMLM.
As a reminder of just what the Green Berets was up to in El Salvador in 1987, from the horses mouth (http://www.franksmyth.com/franksmyth-com/green-berets-in-el-salvador/):
By 1987 "our guys simply stopped reporting...up through the chain they were reporting things they felt were absolute violations, and were absolutely wrong, and they were not seeing any action taken. ...It was up to the State Department to arrest those people or to investigate those at fault... .[B]You couldn't go up to people and say '40 persons got themselves whacked over here because they were thinking of forming a workers' union. And the landowner is not into that at all, so he asked his buddy the Colonel to send a squad over and take care of the problem. [If] you did that, it was real easy to find yourself on the receiving end of a grenade, or a bomb, or a rifle bullet. So...our guys...reported the information and then just saw it disappear into that great void."Ana Montes is an extremely brave woman who has been thrown in a pit to rot for having the courage not to "just follow orders" during a capitalist genocide. Lets express our solidarity with her and write letters to let her know that we haven't forgotten about her. I have not received a reply to the letter that I sent to her in June of this year. It is entirely possible that she is not allowed to receive mail, but I am not certain.
Here is her address:
ANA BELEN MONTES #25037-016
FMC CARSWELL
FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER
P.O. BOX 27137
FORT WORTH, TX 76127
-thanks
Guidelines for contacting inmates at FMC Carswell here (http://www.bop.gov/DataSource/execute/dsFacilityAddressLoc?start=y&facilityCode=crw).
edit: I wasn't sure if this was the right place to post this, so please move it to another section if it might be more appropriate.