The US has charged a former ambassador to Bolivia with spying for Cuba in a case that prosecutors have called 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 court documents.
Rocha is alleged to have sought out and leveraged positions at various embassies and on the National Security Council to access classified information and “affect US foreign policy”, according to the Department of Justice.
Read more about the espionage case here.