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Source: http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/02/26/3091853/sen-leahy-meets-with-alan-gross-in-cuba
Raul Castro: Alan Gross "Was No Spy"
(JTA) Jailed American Jewish contractor Alan Gross "was no spy," Cuban President Raul Castro agreed in a meeting in Havana on Feb. 23 with two visiting U.S. senators, Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Richard Shelby (R-Ala.). Leahy had earlier met with Gross, who is serving a 15-year prison sentence in a military prison in Havana. Gross was arrested in December 2009 for distributing laptop computers and connecting Cuban Jews to the Internet under a USAID contract to help the country's 1,500 Jews communicate with other Jewish communities.