"Ex-US Ambassador to Plead Guilty for Decades-Long Cuban Espionage"

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"Ex-US Ambassador to Plead Guilty for Decades-Long Cuban Espionage"
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Former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, Victor Manuel Rocha, will plead guilty to charges of spying for Cuba for decades, including acting as an illegal foreign agent and using a fraudulently obtained passport. The Justice Department described it as one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the U.S. government by a foreign agent. Rocha, who served on the White House's National Security Council and as an adviser to the U.S. military's Southern Command, admitted his decades of work for Cuba in meetings with an undercover FBI agent posing as a covert Cuban intelligence representative.

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