Rene Gonzalez, accompanied by his wife Olga Salanueva, leaves the U.S. Interests Section after starting paperwork to his renounce his U.S. citizenship in Havana, Cuba, Monday, May 6, 2013. Gonzalez, a Cuban spy who spent 13 years in a U.S. prison, renounced his American citizenship Monday, part of a deal that allows him to avoid returning to the United States to serve out the remainder of his probation. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
Rene Gonzalez, accompanied by his wife Olga Salanueva, leaves the U.S. Interests Section after starting paperwork to his renounce his U.S. citizenship in Havana, Cuba, Monday, May 6, 2013. Gonzalez, a Cuban spy who spent 13 years in a U.S. prison, renounced his American citizenship Monday, part of a deal that allows him to avoid returning to the United States to serve out the remainder of his probation. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
FILE - In this file photo released on Wednesday Oct. 12, 2011 by the state media Cubadebate website, convicted Cuban agent Rene Gonzalez talks on the phone accompanied by his youngest daughter Ivette, after he was freed from a Florida jail, after serving 13 years of a 15-year sentence, in Marianna, Fla. Gonzalez, one of the so-called "Cuban Five," will be able to permanently remain in Cuba in exchange for renouncing his U.S. citizenship, a federal judge ruled Friday, May 3, 2013 after U.S. officials dropped their initial opposition. (AP Photo/Cubadebate, File)
HAVANA (AP) ? A Cuban-American who spent 13 years in a U.S. prison for espionage says he still has deep affection for the United States and hopes to see the two countries reconcile.
But Rene Gonzalez adds in an interview with The Associated Press that he does not regret his decision to spy for Cuba.
Gonzalez also says he would welcome an exchange of prisoners that would send a jailed U.S. government subcontractor home in return for freedom for four other Cuban agents still serving sentences in America.
Monday's interview was Gonzalez's first since a U.S. judge ruled Friday that he could remain in Cuba in return for renouncing his U.S. citizenship.
He had been serving three years' probation in the United States following his 2011 release from a federal prison.
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