MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The US-based CODEPINK anti-war organization plans to meet five Cuban intelligence officers, released by the United States, during their visit to the communist state in late April and early May, the group said in a statement published on its official website on Thursday.
Follow @ConanOBrien lead in going to Cuba to make friends. Join trip April 25-May 3. http://t.co/r1PdHXUkwF. pic.twitter.com/lPZqdHkJZa
— CODEPINK (@codepink) March 5, 2015
The five agents, known as "the Cuban five," were arrested and convicted in Miami in 1998. The last three of them were released in December 2014 as part of a prisoner swap, which was closely followed by President Barack Obama's statement that the US policy to isolate Cuba "had little effect."
Fidel Castro meets the Cuban Five intelligence agents http://t.co/0F8m0eqbj2 12 photos (@enikos_en) pic.twitter.com/05qmz40ByG
— metacode (@metacode) March 3, 2015
In February, a 150-strong delegation of CODEPINK made its first visit to Cuba.
The activists also plan to hold "high-level meetings" with government officials and meet international doctors being trained in Cuba.
Direct bilateral diplomatic contacts between the United States and Cuba were severed in 1961 as Cuba increased its cooperation with the Soviet Union.
CODEPINK was founded in 2002 as a protest movement against the US-led invasion of Iraq, which was launched in 2003.
