The case of Alan Gross -- the USAID subcontractor imprisoned in Cuba in 2011 for activities attempting to sabotage the Cuban Revolution -- is sometimes juxtaposed, unfairly, with the case of the Cuban 5 -- the Cuban intelligence agents unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. for their role in preventing terrorist attacks on Cuba. The United States’
USAID: A Wolf In Humanitarian Clothing
Propaganda and false premises mark the U.S. response to a “prisoner swap” with Cuba. In such a “deal,” Cuba would release a “wrongly imprisoned” USAID subcontractor in exchange for the freedom of three Cuban intelligence agents jailed as “terrorists” in the U.S.