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America Helped a Cuban Spy Get His Wife Pregnant – From Prison

The world's eyebrows collectively raised when a Cuban spy, freed after being held since 1998, greeted his wife – who was heavily pregnant. It turns out it took a whole lot of diplomacy to make that pregnancy happen.

Gerardo Hernandez was one of the spies indicted as part of the "Cuban Five" in 1998; he was convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage, conspiracy to commit murder, and acting as an agent of a foreign government. He was freed last week as part of a prisoner swap for American contractor Alan Gross, who was held in Cuba for five years. 

Throughout Hernandez's time in a California prison, his wife, Adriana Perez, was forbidden from visiting him. So how did he get Perez pregnant from behind bars? It was all part of high-level diplomatic talks between the United States and Cuba.

Patrick Leahy, a U.S. Senator from Vermont, has made it a goal of his to improve America's relations with Cuba. So in an attempt to make conditions better for Gross, Leahy got the U.S. government to collect Hernandez's sperm and send it to Cuba to inseminate Perez, CNN reports. 

 

The couple was desperate to conceive, but Perez's biological clock was ticking and they were running out of time. "Whatever it was going to take to get Alan Gross released was also going to involve a solution for the Cuban prisoners," Tim Rieser, an aide to Leahy, told NBC News. "Senator Leahy and Marcelle Leahy are parents and grandparents and they sympathized with her on a human level and they wanted to help her," he added. The process was completed in total secrecy.

"One of the first things accomplished by this process was this," Hernandez told a Cuban television station, gesturing to Perez's stomach. "I had to do it by 'remote control,' but everything turned out well."

Their daughter is expected to arrive in two weeks, and the couple says they will name her Gema.

 

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