[Email from Dr. Tony de la Cova to Miami Herald journalist Juan Tamayo]
Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 1:49 AM
Subject: Mercedes Arce
Juan Tamayo
Miami Herald
Good morning Juan,
I noticed that in your article in today’s Herald (http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/06/ 2836372/cuban-police-arrest-top-aide-to.html) you indicate that Mercedes Arce “was mentioned in Florida International University professor Carlos Alvarez’s confession that he worked for Cuban intelligence.” I brought that to your attention in the exchange of emails on October-November 2009 that I sent you, Miami Herald Ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos and Herald Editorial Page Editor Myriam Marquez, that I copied other Herald editors and posted on my academic website at http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/Miami-Herald-spy-polemic.htm
In those emails I stated that “Herald editors and reporters demonstrate naiveté when asking [Marifeli] Pérez-Stable to admit to the same espionage criminal activities for which her friend and colleague Professor Carlos Alvarez was sent to prison. Your article omits that it was Alvarez, during his FBI interrogation, who admitted that Mercedes Arce was his intelligence handler (p. 80-82) http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/Alvarez-spy-1.pdf and linked her (p. 489) to Pérez-Stable. http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/espionage/Alvarez-spy-6.pdf
My email on November 5, 2009, to Ms. Marquez concluded by indicating: “Hopefully, what people will remember is that Perez-Stable and her intimate friend Mercedes Arce are spies and the Herald suppressed the truth.”
Two-and-a-half years later, the Miami Herald now acknowledges that Mercedes Arce worked for Cuban intelligence but selectively omits and continues to suppress the link between her and Miami Herald Board of Contributors member and FIU professor Marifeli Perez-Stable. The Alvarez deposition revealed that Arce stayed in the residence of Perez-Stable when she visited Miami.
Sincerely,
Antonio de la Cova, Ph.D.
Cuba Confidential 
I copied the email to Tamayo to the Herald publisher, ombudsman, editors and writers Manny Garcia, Edward Schumacher-Matos, Miriam Marquez, David Landsberg, Mike Sallah and Jay Weaver. I only received a terse reply from Tamayo saying: “thanks for reminding me of the arce-marifeli connex.” I don’t expect to see the link between Perez-Stable and the spy Arce in future Herald articles.
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