Spy couple talking to authorities

MIAMI, April 28 (UPI) -- Authorities say a U.S. couple who admit they spied on their country for Cuba for three decades have been providing details of their clandestine activities.

Former State Department employee Walter Kendall Myers and his wife Gwendolyn Myers, who pleaded guilty last November, will be sentenced July 16, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said Tuesday.

Under their plea agreements, Walter Kendall Myers has agreed to a life sentence without parole while Gwendolyn Myers could serve 6-7 1/2 years. The couple, who also are to pay the government $1.7 million and forfeit other assets, are asking they be sent to prisons as close together as possible.

The U.S. Justice Department said the couple have met with federal officials 50 to 60 times to go over details of their spying, The Miami Herald reported. Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon Michael Harvey told the judge the investigators were "still on track" to complete the "debriefings" in 30 to 40 days, the newspaper said.

The pair have said through their attorney that they had engaged in espionage "not out of selfish motive or hope of personal gain but out of conscience and personal commitment."