Ex US Diplomat Pleads Guilty to Spying for Communist Cuba for Decades

A former career U.S. diplomat has agreed to plead guilty to charges of working for decades as a secret agent for communist Cuba; seemingly putting an end to one of the most high-profile espionage cases in the history of the U.S. foreign service. Victor Manuel Rocha, who also served as the former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, was charged in December 2023 with having secretly passed information to the communist-run Cuban government since 1981 while he was working for the U.S. State Department. Mr. Rocha initially pleaded not guilty in mid-February to charges of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government; acting as an agent of a foreign government and making false statements to obtain a U.S. passport....