Funny how this spy cases come in opposing pairs. It's almost as if the countries involved are trying to one-up each other. First, a U.S. spy drone wanders over Iran, gets snagged and is showed off like a bowler's trophy.
Then Amir Mirza Hekmati, of Iranian lineage but born in Arizona, gets put on death row in Iran for alleged spying for the CIA. See Yahoo news. Any reports of a confession in Iran should be taken with several grains of salt. So when we read that he "admitted to having links with the CIA but denied any intention of harming Iran," we have to admire Mr. Hekmati for holding up that well under the kind of pressure they exert to get confessions.
Then along comes Livia Antonieta Acosta Noguera, the Venezuelan consul in Miami and formerly the second secretary at the Venezuelan Embassy in Mexico. InterAmericanSecurityWatch.com reported last month:
U.S. officials are investigating reports that Iranian and Venezuelan diplomats in Mexico were involved in planned cyberattacks against U.S. targets, including nuclear power plants.
Allegations about the cyberplot were aired last week in a documentary on the Spanish-language TV network Univision, which included secretly recorded footage of Iranian and Venezuelan diplomats being briefed on the planned attacks and promising to pass information to their governments.
Since she's a diplomat all they can do is boot her out of the country. And sure enough, that's what they did.
The CIA should arrange a going away present for her -- a nice thumb drive to use at her office back Venezuela.
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