(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.
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