The US has charged a former ambassador to Bolivia with spying for Cuba in a case that prosecutors are calling one of the most egregious betrayals to have ever taken place at the state department.
Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, who was also posted to Mexico, Argentina, and the Dominican Republic during a decades-long career, had been acting as “a clandestine agent of the Cuban government” since 1981, according to documents unsealed on Monday in federal court in Miami.
Rocha is alleged to have sought out and leveraged positions at various embassies and on the National Security Council in order to access classified information and “affect US foreign policy”, according to a statement from the Department of Justice.