Cuban spy's ultimate mystery: How he got his wife pregnant from a U.S. prison

[flamingdem]

Source: CNN

Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- It might be the most bizarre of the closely guarded secrets from last week's historic agreement between the United States and Cuba: How did the leader of a Cuban spy ring serving life in a California federal prison manage to impregnate his wife 2,245 miles away in Havana?

As part of the most significant diplomatic breakthrough between the United States and Cuba in more than 50 years, a prisoner swap was made. To uphold its part of the bargain, the U.S. released three Cuban spies, including Gerardo Hernandez, the head of the spy ring known as the Wasp Network.

Hernandez had an ear-to-ear smile Wednesday as he arrived at Havana's Jose Marti International Airport. State TV showed Hernandez as he was greeted by President Raul Castro and then embraced and kissed his wife, Adriana Perez.

Cubans watching the nonstop coverage of the prisoner swap were shocked when the cameras zeroed in on Hernandez hugging Perez. She was obviously in the late stages of a pregnancy that had no easy explanation.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/21/world/americas/cuban-spy-artificial-insemination/index.html?c&page=0

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WTF! Spy sperm swap!!

[Xipe Totec]

1. Virgin Birth! It's a miracle!

[Thinkingabout]

2. That's easy, artificial insemination.

[cosmicone]

3. Anything that pisses off Miami cubans

is great news to me.

[flamingdem]

4. LOL! I'm going to see if I can find anything about

their reactions.

Especially for this Cuban spy guy, he was the one the right wing said was responsible for the killing one of theirs - though that was more bs rhetoric.

[MADem]

5. Why are they calling it a "mystery" when they explain it in the text and the video?

Two sources involved with the diplomatic talks, when questioned by CNN, uncloaked the mystery: During the negotiations, Hernandez's sperm was collected and sent to Cuba, where Perez was artificially inseminated.

It was a good faith gesture by the US government.

[SoapBox]

6. I'll place my bet...

On the milkman.

[MADem]

8. Senator Patrick Leahy was the milkman...! He facilitated the delivery! nt

[flamingdem]

28. Perfect that a Vermonter is the Milkman!

mooooo!

[MADem]

29. Ha ha ha--you're right and so clever!!! I didn't think of it but it's a perfect analogy!!! nt

[reddread]

10. shameless purveyors of domestic psychops

and you ask "why"?

[MADem]

11. I was thinking more along the lines of "click bait" and "shameless gossip."

Not psyops--unless Pat Leahy is America's version of 007....

[reddread]

15. I am PRETTY SURE that CNN, among other entities

knows the EXACT percentage of headline browsers that will not examine the contents, and factors that against the details within.

[snooper2]

13. That is nothing, you know what is in the air inside that bubble pop wrapping material?

All those scenes on TV..kids loving to pop the bubble pop-

The same shit from chemtrails is in those bubbles and when you pop them it gets embedded in your house paint-


EVIL BASTARDS!

[reddread]

14. I suppose you didnt mean to, but thank you for making my day

not to mention serving as an example to developmentally debilitated folks everywhere.

[snooper2]

16. No problem! I aim to impress LOL

Now when you get that present the CIA keeps sending you DO NOT POP THE BUBBLE POP WRAP!

[reddread]

17. and if a doctor offers you a prescription

please give it a whirl.

[snooper2]

18. Actually, I'm going to go take my medicine right now, going to get lunch

Just a little puffy puffy and good to go


We send that swag up North and keep the good shit for ourselves Why you think the Cowboys have been kicking so much ass.

[MADem]

20. Wow--that was pretty rude.

You could do better than telling someone that they need "medication" to express your disagreement with an idea.

Damn.

[reddread]

21. break off some conspiracy theorist crap and I will do the same to you

the only people who call me conspiracy theorist are GW and JEB and their associates.
edited to add - PERIOD.

[MADem]

22. Who called you a conspiracy theorist? You doubled down angrily on what looked like a light-hearted

comment.

And you were the one that called a straightforward (as shown in the article that no one apparently read) behind-the-scenes agreement brokered by the Senator from Vermont "psychops." I mean, really. YOU brought up the whole "conspiracy theory" meme with that remark.

Then you go ballistic when someone else mentions what YOU brought up...and respond with a "crazy/medication" insult?

Like I said. Damn!

[reddread]

24. whynt you tell me what bubblewrap and gobbledygook has to do with it?

you feel free to refresh my response and try sussing it out.
I certainly perceive where your interests lay, yet I would not resort to
those sorts of insults firstly.
I have respect, and others are free to toss that aside.

[MADem]

30. Let's pull the string, shall we? You're the one that changed a simple negotiation between parties

(facilitation of the delivery of a sperm sample to Cuba in exchange for better treatment for Alan Gross) that was plainly outlined in the article into something you called "psychops." So YOU raised the topic (of "psychops" or "gobbledygook, or what have you), not anyone else. I don't think Mister Bubblewrap was seeking to insult you, he was merely riffing on the "psychops" point that YOU raised. I think the problem here is that Mister Bubblewrap read the article--and you didn't.

I think you were the rude one in that exchange. YMMV.

[reddread]

32. think what you like

I remarked on the spin of the headline from a media giant that is a home for US Army Psychops.
I'll be damned if I know the significance of the bubblewrap and I hope it never becomes clear.

[MADem]

33. I can help with that, it was entirely clear.

The headline was click bait--nothing more.

The bubble wrap comment was a joke, based on your ascribing to nefarious origins some straightforward reporting under a gossipy, teaser "read this" headline about what the Democratic Senator from Vermont did to improve conditions for an American prisoner in Cuba.

CNN didn't "invent" that story. Here, you can read it all over the place:

You can read all about it in the CUBAN press: http://www.cuba.cu/noticia.php?actualidad&id=24085

You can read all about it in Almeria, in Spain: http://andaluciainformacion.es/almeria/466642/eeuu-y-cuba-incluyeron-un-tratamiento-de-reproduccion-asistida-dentro-de-sus-negociaciones/

Oooh--look! Guardian UK is apparently "in on" the "psychops" -- they're carrying the story too!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/22/artificial-insemination-us-cuba-semen-diplomacy

Semen diplomacy! That's all it is--not "psychops."

[reddread]

34. is it VERY important for you to deny/ignore US Army psychops at CNN?

or imperative?

[MADem]

35. That story had nothing to do with your curiously spelled "psychops."

That story was a story reported all over the world.

You're the one who started making all sorts of nefarious suggestions that were unsupported by the story under discussion--which led to a bubblewrap joke.

And here we are.

[reddread]

36. nefarious??

alrighty

[roody]

7. Cubanos tend to not be uptight

about sex. She could easily have had an abortion if she wanted or needed it.

[MADem]

23. Doesn't ANYONE read the links, ever? Why would she abort a wanted, INSEMINATED child? nt

[7962]

25. Short answer...No. As you saw in the earlier nonsense!!

[MADem]

31. Ain't that peculiar!!

[global1]

9. Now That My Fellow DU'ers Is A Good Spy......nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

12. Someone must've had it in for him.

[Adsos Letter]

26. !

[Gin]

27. HA!

Good one.

[Judi Lynn]

19. Wonderful story. Hope the birth of this special child, Gema, will be safe, and she, in good health.

With any luck, Gerardo Hernandez and Adriana Perez should be able to have a far better life ahead than their past has been.