| A judge of the U.S. District Court handed down | | | | In 1985, he received a "top secret" security clearance |
| sentences for Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers, a | | | | giving him a right of entry to confidential information |
| married American couple that were spy's for Cuba. | | | | every day. U.S. investigators were made aware of |
| Kendall Myers is the son of a heart surgeon, | | | | the existence of a Cuban spy in 2006. The FBI |
| grandson of the National Geographic Society's | | | | tracked down Myers, then launched a sting operation |
| President and great grandson of Alexander Graham | | | | that brought the couple down. |
| Bell, the inventor of the telephone. Myers was born | | | | The two were arrested in June 2009 after meeting |
| into a family of great riches and opportunity, went to | | | | several times with an undercover FBI agent to whom |
| college at Brown University and earned a Ph.D. from | | | | they disclosed their actions for Cuba. Those meetings |
| Johns Hopkins University. | | | | were caught on audio and video tape. Myers told the |
| In 1978 Kendall visited Cuba for two weeks and was | | | | undercover FBI agent he usually took information |
| soon recruited by a Cuban intelligence agent. He spied | | | | from the State Department by committing to |
| for 30 years from his jobs inside the State | | | | memory or writing down observations, and in some |
| Department. He first worked at the State | | | | circumstances he actually took classified documents |
| Department's Foreign Service Institute and later at | | | | home. |
| the department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. | | | | |