Victor Rocha, an ex-State Department employee, called his work “more than a grand slam” to an undercover FBI agent, federal prosecutors allege.
A former United States diplomat has been arrested on federal charges over accusations that he worked as a secret agent for Cuba for more than 40 years, the Department of Justice said on Monday.
Victor Rocha, an ex-State Department employee who served on the National Security Council and a former US ambassador to Bolivia, even bragged about his alleged spy work to an undercover FBI agent, describing it as “more than a grand slam,” federal prosecutors allege in unsealed court documents.
It was not immediately clear if Rocha had an attorney representing him.
Rocha, 73, was arrested where he lives in Miami, Florida, on multiple charges, including acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government and conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government to defraud the US.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement that Rocha’s arrest “exposes one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the United States government by a foreign agent.
