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How Victor Manuel Rocha got away with spying for Cuba for so long : NPR

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks with former CIA official Robert Baer about the case of Manuel Rocha, a longtime U.S. diplomat charged with being a spy for Cuba. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: To the story now of a former U.S. ambassador who allegedly was also an agent of Cuba’s government. Here’s Attorney General Merrick Garland […]

Manuel Rocha was a U.S. diplomat for decades. Was he a Cuban spy?

A former career American diplomat was charged with serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades in what prosecutors portrayed as one of the most brazen and long-running betrayals in the history of the United States foreign service. Manuel Rocha wept as he sat handcuffed in Miami federal court on charges that he engaged […]