Couple Plead Not Guilty to Spying for Cuba
From Times Wire Reports
Two academics pleaded not guilty in Miami to charges of working as covert Cuban agents who funneled information on government officials and Cuban exile groups to Havana for about 30 years.
Carlos Alvarez, a 61-year-old psychology professor at Florida International University, and his wife, Elsa Alvarez, 55, a social worker at the school, entered the pleas before a U.S. magistrate judge. The two, both naturalized U.S. citizens from Cuba, were indicted in December.
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