Author: Jack Bogart

Dependable, punctual and a stickler for details, Ann Montes seemed like a model employee. As a senior analyst with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 1985 to 2001, specializing in Cuba, Montes acquired so much expertise about the country that she became known in the intelligence community as the “Queen of Cuba.” Dedicated to her job, Montes led a seemingly quiet life, driving each morning in her Toyota to Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling on the Potomac River and returning each night to her tidy two-bedroom apartment in Northwest Washington, D.C. But she was hiding something. Unbeknownst to her colleagues and…