{"id":55990,"date":"2024-04-13T19:19:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T02:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=55990"},"modified":"2024-04-13T19:20:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T02:20:05","slug":"former-u-s-ambassador-and-national-security-council-official-who-spied-for-cuban-government-and-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=55990","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Ambassador and National Security Council Official Who Spied for Cuban Government and Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3918 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Department-of-Justice.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, of Miami, a former U.S. Department of State employee who served on the National Security Council from 1994 to 1995 and as U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002, pleaded guilty Friday to secretly acting for decades as an agent of the government of the Republic of Cuba. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Immediately thereafter, a federal judge sentenced Rocha to 15 years in prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cVictor Manuel Rocha secretly acted for decades as an agent of a hostile foreign power. He thought the story of his covert mission for Cuba would never be told because he had the intelligence, knowledge, and discipline to never to be detected. Rocha underestimated those same skills in the prosecutors and law enforcement agents who worked tirelessly to bring him to justice for betraying his oath to this country,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Markenzy Lapointe for the Southern District of Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Adding, \u201cI am mindful that Rocha\u2019s decades-long criminal activity on behalf of the Cuban Government is especially painful for many in South Florida. Rocha\u2019s willingness to cooperate, as required by his plea agreement, is important, but does not change the seriousness of his misconduct or his clandestine breach of the trust placed in him. Rocha\u2019s 15-year prison sentence, the maximum punishment for his crimes of conviction, sends a powerful message to those who are acting or seek to act unlawfully in the United States for a foreign government: we will seek you out anywhere, at any time, and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Former American diplomat sentenced to prison after authorities say he was a spy for Cuba\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZiRkSUJVTEc?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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cuban spy Manuel Rocha sentenced to 15 years in prison\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pKDGhgi9sbM?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: 20px;\">U.S. District Court Judge Beth Bloom accepted Rocha\u2019s guilty plea to counts 1 and 2 of the indictment, which charged him with conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government and conspiring to defraud the United States and acting as an agent of a foreign government without notice as required by law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The court then sentenced Rocha to the statutory maximum penalty on his conviction counts 15 years in prison, a $500,000 fine, three years of supervised release, and a special assessment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The court also imposed significant restrictions on Rocha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Former U.S. ambassador Manuel Rocha accused of spying for Cuba\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/znt03dzlQp8?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: 20px;\">Under the terms of the parties\u2019 plea agreement, Rocha must cooperate with the United States, including assisting with any damage assessment related to his work on behalf of the Republic of Cuba. Rocha must relinquish all future retirement benefits, including pension payments, owed to him by the United States based upon his former State Department employment. Rocha must also assign to the United States any profits that he may be entitled to receive in connection with any publication relating to his criminal conduct or his U.S. Government service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cDespite swearing an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States, Rocha betrayed the U.S. by secretly working as a Cuban agent for decades,\u201d said Executive Assistant Director Larissa L. Knapp of the FBI\u2019s National Security Branch. \u201cAfter years of lying and endangering national security and U.S. citizens, he finally accepted responsibility for his actions and received the maximum prison sentence. This should serve as a notice to our adversaries that the FBI will work tirelessly to stop foreign intelligence services and any who work with them against the interests of the United States and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cVictor Manuel Rocha was sentenced to 15 years in prison today for deceiving our nation,\u201d said Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey B. Veltri of the FBI Miami Field Office. \u201cHe blatantly violated the oath of office he willingly took as an employee of the State Department and disregarded the loyalty to the United States that is inherent with that oath. As this case demonstrates, the counterintelligence threat facing our nation is real, pervasive, and has the potential to cause great harm to our national security. I want to commend the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of Florida for their close partnership on this highly sensitive matter. I also want to thank our Washington Field Office and our Counterintelligence Division, as well as the Department of Justice\u2019s National Security Division and the Department of State\u2019s Diplomatic Security Service for their valuable contributions to this case.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u201cThe investigation of this crime demonstrates the sustained threat from hostile intelligence services,\u201d said Assistant Director for Domestic Operations Andrew Wroblewski of the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). \u201cToday\u2019s guilty plea and sentencing are another example of our commitment to successfully work together with our federal law enforcement partners in the pursuit of those who compromise the security of the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">In pleading guilty, Rocha admitted that, beginning in 1973, and continuing to the time of his arrest, he secretly supported the Republic of Cuba and its clandestine intelligence-gathering mission against the United States by serving as a covert agent of Cuba\u2019s General Directorate of Intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">By his admission to further that role, Rocha obtained employment at the U.S. Department of State, where he worked between 1981 and 2002 in positions that provided him access to nonpublic information, including classified information, and the ability to affect U.S. foreign policy. Aside from serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia and on the White House National Security Council, Rocha\u2019s career included a stint as Deputy Principal Secretary of the State Department\u2019s U.S. Interests Section in Havana, Cuba from 1995-97. After his State Department employment ended, Rocha engaged in other acts intended to support Cuba\u2019s intelligence services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Rocha kept his status as a Cuban agent secret to protect himself and others and to allow himself the opportunity to engage in additional clandestine activity. Rocha provided false and misleading information to the United States to maintain his secret mission and traveled outside the United States to meet with Cuban intelligence operatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">In a series of meetings during 2022 and 2023, with an undercover FBI agent posing as a covert Cuban General Directorate of Intelligence representative, Rocha made repeated statements admitting his \u201cdecades\u201d of work for Cuba, spanning \u201c40 years.\u201d When the undercover told Rocha he was \u201ca covert representative here in Miami\u201d whose mission was \u201cto contact you, introduce myself as your new contact, and establish a new communication plan,\u201d Rocha answered \u201cYes,\u201d and proceeded to engage in lengthy conversations during which he described and celebrated his activity as a Cuban intelligence agent. Throughout the meetings, Rocha behaved as a Cuban agent, consistently referring to the United States as \u201cthe enemy,\u201d and using the term \u201cwe\u201d to describe himself and Cuba. Rocha additionally praised Fidel Castro as the \u201cComandante,\u201d and referred to his contacts in Cuban intelligence as his \u201cCompa\u00f1eros\u201d (comrades) and to the Cuban intelligence services as the \u201cDirecci\u00f3n.\u201d Rocha described his work as a Cuban agent as \u201cenormous \u2026 More than a grand slam,\u201d and asserted that what he did \u201cstrengthened the Revolution \u2026 immensely.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The FBI Miami Field Office investigated the case, with valuable contributions by the FBI Washington Field Office and the U.S. Department of State\u2019s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Assistant U.S. Attorneys Jonathan D. Stratton and John C. Shipley for the Southern District of Florida and Trial Attorneys Heather M. Schmidt and Christine A. 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