Alan Phillip Gross is a former United States government contractor employed by the United States Agency for International Development.
Alan Gross talking on the phone with President Barack Obama, 2014
Alan Gross with his wife Judy, attorney Scott Gilbert, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. watch television on board a U.S. government plane headed back to the U.S. as the news breaks of his release, Dec. 17, 2014.
The Cuban Five, also known as the Miami Five, are five Cuban intelligence officers who were arrested in September 1998 and later convicted in Miami, Florida, of conspiracy to commit espionage, conspir
Alan Gross
…visited Gross in jail, Armanda Nuria Piñero Sierra, was hired as Gross's lawyer and handled his trial and appeals. She also represented the families of five Cubans held in U.S. prisons after being convicted in 2001 on charges of conspiracy to commit espionage against U.S. military installations, leading to the…
A poster in front of Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, calling for the release of the Cuban Five in 2007
Sign supporting the "Cuban Five" in Varadero, Cuba
Sign on a street in Varadero, Cuba