State Department : ` ` We urgently reiterate our decision ... to release him '' ` ` His decision to say goodbye to us was final , '' But Cuban authorities say Gross was part of a plot to create `` a Cuban spring '' and destabilize the island 's single-party communist government . Alan Gross ##man . Attorney : Alan Gross ` ` has withdrawn , '' says life in prison not worth living . Rabbis to Jews : that his release is a ` ` moral imperative ''
State Department : ` ` We urgently reiterate our decision ... to release him '' ` ` His decision to say goodbye to us was final , '' Alan Gross ##man . Attorney : Alan Gross ` ` has withdrawn , '' says life in prison not worth living . Rabbis to Jews : that his release is a ` ` moral imperative ''