Authorities said an FBI agent, posing as a Cuban intelligence officer, contacted the Myers in April and asked them to obtain information for Havana.
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His great strength is that he can speak from a position of authority, being that rare creature who has found success both as anintelligenceagent and as the operator of an enduring business.
As well as carrying out run-of-the-mill duties at the foreign ministry, he worked as anagent of Czech military intelligence under the codename Salima, responsible for the assignments of military spies under diplomatic cover.
Four years ago, a Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands convicted a Libyan intelligenceagent of planting the bomb that destroyed an American airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988 and killed 270 people.