arranged it was two days after the midterms when president obama convened a national security council meeting at the white house so the national security council could get briefed an the deal and sign off on it. that was november 6th when the national security council got briefed on what was about to happen with cuba. honestly given washington, one of the most amazing parts is the national security council knew about all of this as of november 6th and here it is december whatever and none of it leaked. none of it leaked over the next six weeks. it didn t leak, and it worked. and so here are the three cuban spies who we traded to them meet with raul castro. and somewhere in america right now, apparently is rolando sarriff trujillo who president obama described yesterday in his speech. we don t know where in america he is but he was brought to this country with the president thanking him and singing his praises after he spent nearly 20
two, but three major cuban spying plots inside the united states. mr. sarraff worked in the cryptology section of cuba s directorate of intelligence. he was a cuban national. worked in the cuban directorate. they used to communicate back home to havana. one of the things we know about this woman, anna montes, one of the most damaging spies in american history. one of the things about her case is she specifically used a toshiba laptop computer to compose the encoded messages she sent back to her handlers in havana. when she was sending u.s. secrets back to cuba. part of the way the fbi and ultimately the pentagon caught her is that they had been tipped off somehow to that specific fact about her.
with wrapping up not one, not two, but three major cuban spying plots inside the united states. mr. sarraff worked in the cryptology section of cuba s directorate of intelligence. he was a cuban national. worked in the cuban directorate. they used to communicate back home to havana. one of the things we know about this woman, anna montez, one of the most damaging spies in american history. one of the things about her case is she specifically used a toshiba laptop computer to compose the encoded messages she sent back to her handlers in havana. when she was sending u.s. sec t secrets back to cuba. part of the way the fbi and ultimately the pentagon caught her is that they had been tipped off somehow to that specific fact about her. to the fact this spied who had access to high level information
briefing pope francis, quote in a one on one meeting over a spare desk adorned with a gold crucifix at the vatican. so the pope apparently followed up this one on one briefing from president obama with personal letters that he wrote both to the white house and raul castro asking both men to keep pushing to get their governments to come to some kind of agreement. meanwhile, the two sides, the two negotiators kept secretly meeting in canada over this year and a half long effort. finally, the deal about swapping the spies and freeing alan gross, this us aid guy. the final deal on the spy swap and prisoner releases happened at the vatican just two months ago. it happened in october. they had one more logistics meeting thereafter in canada to plan the nitty-gritty, including the flight schedules and choreograph the handoff of the spies. once the deal was settled on and arranged it was two days after the midterms when president obama convened a national security council meeting at the
white house so the national security council could get briefed on the deal and sign off on it. that was november 6th when the national security council got briefed on what was about to happen with cuba. honestly given washington, one of the most amazing parts is the national security council knew about all of this as of november 6th and here it is december whatever and none of it leaked. none of it leaked over the next six weeks. it didn t leak, and it worked. and so here are the three cuban spies who we traded to them meet with raul castro. and somewhere in america right now, apparently is rolando sarriff trujillo who president obama described yesterday in his speech. we don t know where in america he is but he was brought to this country with the president thanking him and singing his praises after he spent nearly 20 years in jail for spying on behalf of this country inside cuba s intelligence directorate. i know, right? and, meanwhile, while all that