Alan Gross, spy released from a Cuban jail in swap, will receive $3.2 million from the government

[Jesus Malverde]

3. It's been documented repeatedly, that and he was turned in by them as a spy.

This AID-funded mission put the Jews of Cuba in a bad spot. I would argue for such missions if the Jews of a given country were either persecuted or cut off from the world, but the Jews of Cuba are neither. In fact, the Jews of Cuba are probably more wired to the rest of the world than their non-Jewish compatriots, not only because their synagogue have Internet connections, but because they receive delegations of Jews from the U.S., Canada, Mexico and elsewhere almost weekly. When I was in Havana in 2010, the president of the Jewish community, Adela Dworin complained to me that she has a warehouse brimming over with cans of gefilte fish brought by well-meaning Jewish delegations. And there is no anti-Semitism to speak of in Cuba. I don't know anyone who disagrees with this basic assertion (and I didn't just take Fidel's word for it.) So Gross's mission, on many levels, was ill-advised, and, given its outcome, tragic.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/02/our-man-in-havana-or-the-strange-case-of-alan-gross/253025/