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A former career U.S. diplomat says he will plead guilty to charges of serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades. Thursdays development marked an unexpectedly fast

A former career U.S. diplomat says he will plead guilty to charges of serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades. Thursdays development marked an unexpectedly fast

‘He had access to everything.’

Long before career U.S. diplomat Manuel Rocha was arrested on charges of being a secret agent of Cuba for decades, there were plenty of red flags.

Long before career U.S. diplomat Manuel Rocha was arrested on charges of being a secret agent of Cuba for decades, there were plenty of red flags.

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Manuel Rocha was well known in Miami’s elite circles for an aristocratic, almost regal, bearing that seemed fitting for an Ivy League-educated career U.S. diplomat who held top posts in Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba and the White House. “Ambassador Rocha,” as he preferred to be called, demanded and got respect. Rodriguez, who participated in the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba and the execution of revolutionary “Che” Guevara, believed at the time that the Rocha ...

MIAMI — Manuel Rocha was well known in Miami’s elite circles for an aristocratic, almost regal, bearing that seemed fitting for an Ivy League-educated career U.S. diplomat who held top posts in Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba and the White House. “Ambassador Rocha,” as he preferred to be called, demanded and got

“He was fiercely anti-communist and a staunch, early, Trump supporter. Rocha was the last person I would have suspected of being a Cuban spy.”

Long before career U.S. diplomat Manuel Rocha was arrested on charges of being a secret agent of Cuba for decades, there were plenty of red flags. An Associated...