How was the spy wife pregnant? – VG

The Cubans got something to ponder when it released spy Gerardo Hernandez came home in triumph after 16 years in US custody. How could it be that his Cuban wife was heavily pregnant?

Adriana Perez waited for her husband at the airport in Havana, along with, among others, Cuban President Raul Castro. Television pictures of when she threw herself around the neck of her husband, left no doubt what it was embarking with her.

Gerardo Hernandez was arrested in the US in 1998, accused of having led a Cuban spy ring known as Wasp Network.

Four other Cuban spies were also arrested, and the judgment against Hernandez sounded twice life imprisonment. Since he has been in a federal prison in Florida.

Speculation

Visit from his wife, he can not possibly have gotten since she also works for the Cuban intelligence service, reports CNN.

According to Cuban authorities refused the US her therefore to visit the man in prison, but in Cuba speculation now vial if anything could have happened behind the scenes. Hernandez even came with certain hints.

– Everyone asks, and we have had lots of fun with your comments and speculations. The truth is that this must be kept secret. We can not go into details, we do not want to hurt those who want us well, says the released spy to Cuban television.

Confirms

According to Hernandez’s wife’s pregnancy a result of negotiations at a high level between Cuba and the United States.

– One of the first that came out of this process, this was, he says, pointing to his wife’s bulging belly.

– I had adopt remote, but everything went just fine, he said.

The US authorities confirmed to CNN that it was facilitated in vitro fertilization of the imprisoned spy wife in Cuba.

– We can confirm that the United States facilitated the Mrs. Hernandez could have children with her husband, said a spokesman for the Justice Department in Washington.

As a thank you for helping make the authorities in Havana that the American Alan Gross got better prison conditions in Cuba. Gross was imprisoned for having imported illegally technology to Cuba, and was released along with Hernandez in a prisoner exchange last week.