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The U. S. Government has responded to these claims, stating that the prisoners have received over a hundred visits from family members granted visas.

The government contends that the wives of González and Hernández are members of the Cuban Intelligence Directorate, and thus pose a risk to the national security of the United States: Consistent with the right of the United States to protect itself from covert spies, the U. S. government has not granted visas to the wives of two prisoners.

Evidence presented at their husbands ’ trial revealed that one of these women was a member of the Wasp Network who was deported for engaging in activity related to espionage and is ineligible to return to the United States.

The other was a candidate for training as a Directorate of Intelligence U. S .- based spy when U. S. authorities broke up the network.