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A former U.S. Ambassador and National Security Council official admitted to acting as a secret agent of the Cuban government for decades as a judge handed down a 15-year sentence.

Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, of Miami, a former US Department of State employee, who served on the National Security Council from 1994 to 1995, and as US Ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002, has pleaded guilty to secretly acting for decades as an agent of the government of Cuba.

The former US ambassador to Bolivia was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday after admitting to a decades-long campaign of spying on the US government for communist Cuba.  

Former United States, US, Ambassador to Bolivia, Victor Manuel Rocha, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for spying on the American government for

Victor Manuel Rocha, a former career U.S. diplomat, was sentenced Friday to 15 years in federal prison after admitting he worked for decades as a secret agent for communist Cuba. The plea agreement leaves many unanswered questions about a betrayal that stunned the U.S. foreign service.

Manuel Rocha, the former US ambassador to Bolivia who acted as a secret foreign agent of Cuba, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges Friday – a judge telling him, “you turned your back on this country.”

Manuel Rocha’s plea agreement leaves many unanswered questions about a betrayal that stunned the U.S. foreign service

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A former career U.S. diplomat has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after admitting he worked for decades as a secret agent for communist Cuba

The former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia was allegedly recruited by the Cubans in 1973, then went on to rise through the ranks of the State Department.