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.
Editor's note · Context
Leahy points out the timing of the program's activation related to Gross's arrest.
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