Former US ambassador, NSC official admits to acting as secret agent for Cuba, learns fate: DOJ
Politics,NSC,National Security Council,Miami,Latin America,Florida,FBI,Cuba,Bolivia
A former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia and a National Security Council member pleaded guilty on Friday to secretly acting for decades as an agent of the government of the Republic of Cuba, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). A federal judge sentenced Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, of Miami, to 15 years in prison for working against the U.S. government for decades for communist Cuba in "clandestine intelligence-gathering missions." "Today’s plea and sentencing brings to an end more than four decades of betrayal and deceit by the defendant," said Assistant...
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