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Alan Gross
Alan Phillip Gross (born May 2, 1949) is a United States government contractor employed by United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
In December 2009 he was arrested in Cuba while working on a program funded under the 1996 Helms-Burton Act.〔 He was prosecuted in 2011 after being accused of crimes against the Cuban state for bringing satellite phones and computer equipment (to members of Cuba’s Jewish community) without the permit required under Cuban law.〔 After being accused of working for American intelligence services in January 2010, he was ultimately convicted for “acts against the independence or the territorial integrity of the state" in March 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Sentence )〕 He was released from Cuban prison on December 17, 2014.〔Elise Labott, "(Cuba releases American Alan Gross in prisoner swap )", ''CNN'' (December 17, 2014).〕
==Life and career==
Gross was born in New York〔 to a Jewish family and later moved to Maryland.〔 He studied sociology at the University of Maryland and social work at Virginia Commonwealth University. He had a long career as an international development worker who had been active in some 50 countries and territories across the Middle East, Africa and Europe,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/12/201383.htm )〕 including Iraq and Afghanistan, where he was setting up satellite communications systems to NGOs.〔
In 2001, he founded JBDC LLC, a small company that earned less than $70,000 in 2009, which supported "Internet connectivity in locations where there () little or no access," according to the ''New York Times''.〔 Gross and his wife Judy lived in Potomac, Maryland, a Washington, D.C. suburb. The couple has two daughters.〔
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