Former career US diplomat charged with secretly spying for Cuban intelligence for decades – IOTW Report

Former career US diplomat charged with secretly spying for Cuban intelligence for decades

MIAMI (AP) — 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 U.S. foreign service.

Manuel Rocha wept as he sat handcuffed in Miami federal court on charges that he engaged in “clandestine activity” on Cuba’s behalf since at least 1981 — the year he joined the U.S. foreign service — including by meeting with Cuban intelligence operatives and providing false information to U.S. government officials about his contacts.

The complaint unsealed Monday is short on specifics of how Rocha may have assisted Cuba. But it provides a vivid case study of what American officials say are long-standing efforts by Cuba and its notoriously sophisticated intelligence services to target U.S. government officials who can be flipped.

13 Comments on Former career US diplomat charged with secretly spying for Cuban intelligence for decades

  1. But.. But.. But Trump had documents showing that the Russia investigation was a sham and an attempt to thwart democracy and over throw him. That’s more important. And, and..the meanie wouldn’t give the documents back so that could disappear.

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  2. ALL State Department employees are so smug in knowing what is best for the world. Not the country, the world. The shadow government started there. Probanly needs to end there too.

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