Having an SCI clearance would give #202 access to information that would certainly have made him valuable to the Cuban government, but working the Europe account in INR probably didn’t turn up much of interest. I’d be far more worried about his ability to confirm for the Cubans the identity of agents who were passing secrets to the CIA and other agencies. Or to pass on the substance of sigint intercepts. That’s the kind of stuff that gets agents killed and dries up access. Not good. And how did they buy this treason? With medals. Medals that he couldn’t even hang on his wall or wear to the annual decoration ball. That, folks, is what you call an idelogical convert. He wasn’t doing it for the money to to cover up some secret he was being blackmailed over, he was doing it because he believed in Fidel. And as others have pointed out, he believed in Fidel because he was upset with Jimmy Carter’s presidency. This is one very sad story. F