Feds Charge Former Ambassador With Serving as a Cuban Agent for Four Decades

‘To betray that trust by falsely pledging loyalty to the United States while serving a foreign power is a crime that will be met with the full force of the Justice Department,’ Attorney General Garland says.

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Attorney General Garland during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, September 20, 2023, on Capitol Hill. AP/Jacquelyn Martin

A former American diplomat, Victor Manuel Rocha, was arrested Sunday and is accused of spying for the Cuban government in what Attorney General Garland called “one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the United States government.”

An American ambassador to Bolivia between 2000 and 2002, Mr. Rocha, was charged Monday by federal prosecutors at the Southern District of Florida. 

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