This is an updated version of a story first published on May 19, 2023. The original video can be viewed here . In April, a career American ambassador pleaded guilty to spying for the intelligence service of Cuba.
Victor Manuel Rocha served his country in positions that required the highest levels of security clearance. For 40 years, he was a covert agent. Before Ambassador Rocha was exposed, there was another prolific Cuban spy named Ana Montes , a Pentagon official, who was the lead analyst on Cuba policy.
She spied for 17 years. But, Cuban spy craft isn't just a relic of the Cold War. It's a real and present danger to U.
S. national security. As we first reported this spring, it turns out, Cuba's main export isn't cigars or rum, it's American secrets-which they barter and sell to America's enemies around the world.
It was 1999 and then first lady Hillary Clinton danced with the president of Argentina at a state dinner. President Clinton also danced the tango across the White House ballroom. There in front wearing glasses and the airs of an aristocrat.
.. stood Victor Manuel Rocha.
He was the number two diplomat at the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires with an impeccable reputation as a senior statesman on Latin America.
He served on the National Security Council and became the ambassador to Bolivia—seen here alongside that country's president—all that time while having the highest top secret security clearance, with access to the most sensitive U.S. intelligence.
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