The spy in history exchanges between the US and Cuba

They are the United States and Cuba was spying on earth plugin rivals and was released several years ago when Washington and Havana claims toward normalizing relations after more than half a century.

"Group 5" consists of Cuban citizens accused of performing acts of espionage in Miami, USA, in 2001. Three of the group was released this time include Gerardo Hernandez, Antonio Guerrero and Ramon Labanino.The other two are Rene Gonzalez and Fernando Gonzalez, were released earlier.

"Group 5" is the right thing to Fidel Castro south Florida to gather information about the components against the government in Havana Cuban community in the United States.

As a member of "Network wasps", "Group 5 Cubans" responsible organizations infiltrated opposition, investigation and send to Cuba throughthe media as "encryption software, the specific radio transmission of high frequency and phone message security, "according to AP .

"Network wasps" allegedly tried to infiltrate the headquarters of southern America, the supervisory authority of the Washington military operations in Latin America and the Caribbean. The spy's secret network also become laborers in Key West Naval Station. There, they allegedly sent the report relating to the activities of US aircraft in Havana.

The Cuban intelligence agents operating in the US for many years and is under the supervision of agencies and organizations of the government in Washington. Officials said that would be useful and convenient than if monitoring the activities of these people are remote. However, after Cuba shot down two planes carrying American citizens working together exile group 'Brothers to the Rescue "in 1996, the FBI arrested" Group 5 Cubans "in Miami in March 9/1998. May 6/2001, 5 person convicted of espionage.

Trial members of the "Group 5 Cubans" sparked much debate. Cuban exile community in Miami that these people have been sentenced to more severe.

Havana claims the group of 5 people trapped. However, before the trial ended, the Cuban government finally admitted all 5 of them are intelligence officers.

But Havana insisted spy group was sent to Miami does not aim to spy on the US government to investigate mainly the Cuban exile community here.

After a trial lasting seven months, Hernandez, Guerrero and Labanino sentenced to life imprisonment, while Rene Gonzalez respectively Ferndando and sentenced to 19 and 15 years in prison. Hernandez also accused of conspiracy to murder, was implicated in the Cuban airliner shot down two US citizens in 1996, 4 pilots killed.

"The only responsible for what happened to his release, that as a slap in the face my father," Alejandre-Triana, daughter of Armando Alejandre, the pilot of one of the two planes were downing years old, Hernandez said the news release.

"We simply can not understand why this could happen, especially for Gerardo Hernandez. The arrest him little justice is little that we can be,"NBC quoted Maggie Alejandre-Khuly, sister of the other pilot said.

Rene Gonzalez was given his release in 2011, but the government demanded that he be subject to arrest in the United States. 2013, a judge may issue a decision in Gonzalez to Cuba if agreed to renounce his US citizenship, when he returned home to attend his father's funeral.Meanwhile, Fernando Gonzalez was released earlier this year and immediately deported.

In Cuba, "Group 5" has long been regarded as the national hero. Their faces were painted on the walls, printed on stamps and "even children to school can also tell Peak wall details about the incident involving them", William Booth, pen from the Washington Post in 2009 wrote.

Spy anonymity

Rolando "Rollie" Sarraff Trujillo. Photo: Martinoticias

On 17/12, a worker Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was jailed in Cuba for nearly 20 years and is returned to the US with Alan Gross, a US subcontractor jailed in Cuba 5 years. Washington does not publicly identity of this person. But according to Chris Simmons, a former director of the Cuban counterintelligence unit, worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency, the US, the more likely it is Rolando "Rollie" Sarraff Trujillo, about 51 years old, was arrested in 1995 the Cuban government and sentenced to 25 years in prison for acts of espionage.

Sarraff to be a cipher expert, working in Cuba Intelligence Agency, responsible for handling the piece of information is encoded by the foreign spies sent to Cuba in Havana. "People who work decoder holds the key to the country because they know the flaws in your system," AP quoted Simmons said. Sarraff also helped the US government intrusion "Network wasps".

According to NBC News , CIA agent has stolen the secret information in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Cuba and moved  to the US colleagues.

Rolando Sarraff father, Rolando "Rollie" Sarraff Trujillo, is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Cuban armed forces, and former journalist working for the state news agency Prensa Latina. He and his wife, Odesa Trujillo, do not know much about his son's activities.

When not see Sarraff call home, grandparents came to the prison to see whether his son had any problems of health. Staff here to tell them not to worry and that his condition might be better just only.

Sarraff grandparents live in Playa, Havana and weekly close often visited the prison. Sarraff being held at Villa Marista, where security levels are extremely strict, located on the edge of Havana. Sarraff often called the family in the afternoon, but from Wednesday 16/12 until now, his parents have not received a phone call.

"Outside people are prompted to name it," AP quoted Sarraff mother said yesterday at their home in Havana. "I do not care where it is, just know it is healthy or not alone".

"We go everywhere, but they say there is no information," said the father of Sarraff.

Alan Gross

Alan Gross, Cuba detention of prisoners has been released today 17/12. Photo:CNN

Cuba has decided to release a US citizen Alan Gross Tuesday 17/12. He was arrested in 12/2009 while working in Cuba as a subcontractor. Gross was sentenced to 15 years in prison for technology import ban and tried to set up Internet services for Jewish secret Cuba.

Gross is a supporter of Israel and is a consultant to professional development. He traveled all over the world, the implementation of privatization contract before his arrest in Cuba. Gross to Cuba only once before and not fluent in Spanish.

Gross worked for the company Development Alternative (DAI), based in Maryland, USA. The company has signed a deal worth $ 6 million with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) in a project aimed at promoting democracy and supporting those with political dissent. Gross signed two contracts to provide telecommunications equipment with the band for over 20 months with a $ 590,000 compensation.

5 flights to Cuba in 2009, Gross import equipment and satellite connections and other advanced technologies and help install them in the center of Jews in Havana, Santiago and Camaguey. He was arrested in 03/12/2009 hotel on the day, just before the country.

Gross events DAI and the US government, demanding compensation of $ 60 million, saying that he did not receive adequate information about the hazards and the illegal status of assigned tasks. Then, Gross has settled the case with the band in an amount not disclosed.

While in prison, Gross change from a conventional technique as a fierce critic of the US and Cuban governments. Gross mental breakdown when his mother died of cancer in May 6. Shortly thereafter, he refused contact with the doctor, his wife and the American welfare agency.

According to ABC News , Gross's release was the result of a process of "secret dialogue between the highest authorities of the two countries' governments", which lasted more than a year. More importantly, the incident occurred at the same time with a different agreement, under which the US exchange for the release of three citizens in the "Group 5 Cubans" and Cuba to release an American spy.

Vu Hoang