Renegade Streak: Accused Spy Walter Kendall Myers

Mike Gonzalez / June 12, 2009

Below in its entirety is a commentary on accused spy Walter Kendall Myers written by Heritage’s Vice President for Communications Mike Gonzalez. It appeared in today’s Washington Times.

Walter Kendall Myers, the State Department analyst accused of spying for Havana for 30 years, made me lose my innocence soon after I started working at the department in late 2006.

I learned because of him that, while many Foreign Service Officers are patriots who put their private political beliefs aside while in government service, there is a substratum of officials whose personal ideology permits them to tolerate the unforgivable. Years before the current treason accusations against Mr. Myers, I learned that getting rid of obvious policy saboteurs was well nigh impossible at State.

This epiphany came because of remarks Mr. Myers made in November that year to an audience at Johns Hopkins University. The observations had nothing to do with Cuba; in fact, they were about our closest ally, the United Kingdom. (more…)