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Patrick Leahy: “And there is the disturbing fact that it apparently activated shortly after Alan Gross, a USAID subcontractor who was…”

On the recordApril 7, 2014
And there is the disturbing fact that it apparently activated shortly after Alan Gross, a USAID subcontractor who was sent to Cuba to help provide citizens access to the Internet, was arrested.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Leahy points out the timing of the program's activation related to Gross's arrest.

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