1. Walter Kendall Myers was born on April 15,1937 and is a former US State Department employee who, with his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, was arrested and indicted on June 4,2009, on charges of spying for Cuba for nearly 30 years.
11 Facts About Kendall Myers
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Kendall Myers was convicted of espionage and sentenced to life imprisonment by a US federal court in July 2010.
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Kendall Myers is the grandson of Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor and great-grandson of Alexander Graham Bell.
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Kendall Myers is related to William Howard Taft through his father.
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Kendall Myers was educated at Mercersburg Academy, a private preparatory boarding school in the borough of Mercersburg in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, followed by Brown University in the city of Providence, Rhode Island, from which he graduated, and earned a Ph.
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The authorities said that Kendall Myers usually relied on his memory or notes for information rather than stealing documents.
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Kendall Myers told undercover agents that he had spent an evening with Fidel Castro in 1995.
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The Kendall Myers' pleaded guilty on November 20,2009, at a hearing before Judge Reggie Walton in a US District Court.
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Kendall Myers, 72, pled guilty to a three-count criminal investigation charging him with conspiracy to commit espionage and two counts of wire fraud.
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Kendall Myers's wife pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information charging her with conspiracy to gather and transmit national defense information.
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On July 16,2010, Kendall Myers was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole, and Gwendolyn was sentenced to a total of 81 months in prison.