Pete Lapp, Retired FBI Special Agent, on the Ana Montes case, a DIA Analyst caught spying for Cuba

Interview of Tuesday, 4 May 2021 of Pete Lapp, retired FBI Special Agent, and Senior Advisor for Homeland Security and Law Enforcement with DNI, on DIA Intelligence Analyst Ana Belén Montes, a Cuba expert, who was spying for Cuban Intelligence, caught, and pled guilty in 2002. She was sentenced to 25-years in federal prison. Lapp was the Co-Case Agent for the Ana Montes investigation.
Interviewer: John Quattrocki, former Supervisory Special Agent, FBI, served on National Security Council, ODNI and DOD. Currently a professor.
Host: James Hughes, AFIO President; a former CIA Operations Officer.
TOPIC: Pete Lapp speaks with his FBI colleague John Quattrocki (an AFIO Board Member) about DIA Intelligence Analyst Ana Belén Montes, a Cuba expert, who was spying for Cuban Intelligence, caught, and pled guilty in 2002. She was sentenced to 25-years.
The presentation runs 68 minutes.
BIOS:
PETER J. LAPP began his career with the Bureau in May 1998, and was assigned to work Cuban counterintelligence and espionage matters at the FBI’s Washington Field Office. Special Agent Lapp was the co-case agent on the Ana Belén Montes espionage investigation, the subject of today's AFIO Now interview.
Montes, a senior Cuba analyst at DIA, was subsequently arrested on September 21, 2001 for being a penetration agent of the Cuban Intelligence Service for sixteen years. She is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence.
Lapp also served in the FBI’s Baltimore Division, Wilmington (Delaware) Resident Agency working counterintelligence issues. He was Supervisory Special Agent at FBIHQ in the Counterintelligence Division's Counterespionage Section as a program manager of economic espionage investigations, and was promoted to Unit Chief of the Counterespionage Section's Economic Espionage Unit involving PRC espionage. In 2012 he served as a Senior Advisor for Homeland Security and Law Enforcement at the ODNI under the Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Partner Engagement. He returned to FBIHQ’s Office of Partner Engagement in 2015 to work on the active shooter initiative.
He has a Bachelor’s Degree from West Chester University, West Chester, PA in Criminal Justice and a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, PA. He has three children and is a part-time acoustic guitarist and singer who plays many of the wineries and breweries in Northern Virginia.
JOHN J. QUATTROCKI is currently a professor in National Security Policy and U.S. Counterintelligence Strategy and Policy at the Institute of World Politics. Quattrocki is a national security expert with 19 years of operational experience and 14 years of experience in policy development and implementation on the National Security Council, the Office of the DNI, and the DoD. He served for several years as a Division Manager and Vice President of National Services Group at CACI International. Quattrocki also served with distinction as a Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI. He attended the USAF Academy and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in political science, constitutional law from Northern Illinois University. He later attended the Executive Development Program at Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management.
JAMES R. HUGHES currently serves as the 17th President of AFIO. His service began January 2015. He had a career of US Government service spanning 37 years in numerous foreign countries with a particular focus in the Middle East. He started in U.S. Military Intelligence in the late 1960s and then joined the CIA’s Clandestine Service. He served overseas as a Chief of Station several times, and at CIA Headquarters in a number of senior management positions, including as Chief of the Near East and South Asia Division, in the Directorate of Operations [today’s National Clandestine Service]. He was also named the Associate Deputy Director of Operations (ADDO) at the National Security Agency, 1998-99. Following his retirement from the government in 2005, he joined EDS in Herndon, Virginia, as the Client Industry Executive for the U.S. Intelligence Community. After the HP acquisition of EDS, he continued to serve in a similar capacity until his retirement in 2012. His parents were missionaries in Turkey in the 1950s, where Jim spent his formative years. He is fluent in Arabic.
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[@kxkxkxkx]

"we knew that the Cubans had penetrated the US government" that's a pretty understated way to say every single Cuban agent for the last 30+ years was a double working for the DGI 🤦

[@markhanneman5439]

Excellent presentation and investigative insights

[@rocketman48]

great interviews and history

[@sierravista9013]

The FBI dropped the ball for two years

[@alanscott4824]

Thanks for the intelligence. Well Done.

[@tightcamper]

So she is now released and by all accounts not contrite. I suspect she would do it again in a flash.

[@iamjustgreg]

Why would she be contrite, she believes she was a prisoner of conscience.

[@calwianka]

Interesting show but I recommend a faster dive into the excellent topic.

[@RickyCastillo]

please do one about Victor Manuel Rocha! Great channel!

[@realdeal139]

Cubans have many people in Miami acting as agents for them.

[@mariaelenagonzalez4450]

I just bought Queen of Cuba. Because I’m a quarter Cuban, she caused me a world of hurt while I was active duty

[@petelapp5118]

Thank you, and hope you enjoyed it.

[@donalddenton8135]

Always glad to hear this kind of good news!

[@rolandoacosta6982]

thank you or your services

[@petelapp5118]

You’re very welcome. It was my honor.

[@Antonio-nv8eu]

As a cuban thank you

[@josetorga5067]

Es curioso Ana Belen no tenia marido, no tenia novio y la otra mujer que la inicio en esa actividad y que escapo a Suecia no parecia ser muy femenina. Uds. las escojen o se las envian asi.

[@larserikjohnsen8933]

What despicable people these cops are. “I got to punch Castro in the nose…” Why? Think for yourself dude, why do they want you to hate Castro? Why do you think he deserves a punch in the nose? A 1960 State Department memo literally calls for driving the Cuban people to such a point of desperation that they would turn against their government, that this was the only way because Cubans loved Castro and the socialist state he led. “Let poverty, disease and famine save Cuba.” These people are beyond sick. Ana Montes is a hero. Long live Ana Montes. I wish her all the best in putting her life back together since her release earlier this month. ¡Viva la revolución y viva Cuba y Borinquén soberanos y libres! 🇨🇺 🚩 🇵🇷