{"id":54898,"date":"2023-12-04T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T23:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=54898"},"modified":"2023-12-04T15:01:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T23:01:59","slug":"u-s-charges-ex-ambassador-with-spying-for-cuba-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=54898","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Charges Ex-Ambassador with Spying for Cuba for Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"US charges ex-ambassador with spying for Cuba\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OVV3hF6HO2M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">According to the New York Post, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Monday ( that the United States has charged a former ambassador to Bolivia with spying for Cuba for over 40 years, in what the Justice Department described as one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the U.S. government by a foreign agent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Victor Manuel Rocha, who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002, was charged with committing multiple federal crimes including acting as an illegal foreign agent and using a fraudulently obtained passport, the Justice Department said in a statement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">In a court document filed in the southern district of Florida, the U.S. accuses Rocha of having secretly supported Cuba and its clandestine intelligence-gathering mission against Washington since 1981. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Rocha admitted his decades of work for Cuba in a series of meetings in 2022 and 2023 with an undercover FBI agent who posed as a covert Cuban General Directorate of Intelligence representative, according to the court document. 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