A former State Department analyst and his wife have been sentenced after pleading guilty to acting as spies for the Cuban government. Walter Kendall Myers was sentenced to life in prison, and his wife Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers was sentenced to over six years. Both are in their early seventies. In a court statement, Walter Myers said he acted to help Cuba resist the US-led embargo, saying, “We did not intend to hurt any individual American. Our only objective was to help the Cuban people defend their revolution.”