Alan Gross regains Freedom from Cuban Prison

A 65-year-old American contractor by name Alan Gross Held for five years in Cuba has been released from prison and is en route to U.S. soil.
Today’s release of Gross, who is said to be in poor physical condition, represents a first step toward normalizing relations with the neighbor just 90-miles off the Florida coast.
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He was convicted of espionage by a Cuban court in 2011 and sentenced to 15 years for bringing telecommunication devices into Cuba while working as a subcontractor for United State Agency for International Development.

He was accused of being party to a U.S.-led plot to overthrow the government through an “Arab spring.”

In return for Gross, the United States has agreed to the humanitarian release of three Cuban agents convicted of espionage in a controversial trial that found them guilty of spying on anti-Castro groups in Miami, but not the U.S. government. All three were most recently held in North Carolina at a federal medical facility for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.ABC News.