Former US ambassador admits to serving as secret agent for Cuba

Manuel Rocha, a retired US ambassador, said Thursday that he will plead guilty to charges of serving as a secret agent for Cuba’s spy agency, affirming what the Justice Department described as one of the most serious infiltrations of US government in history, Report informs via The Washington Post.

Rocha, 73, told a federal judge that he would plead guilty to charges of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government, the Associated Press reported. Prosecutors dropped 13 other charges, including wire fraud and making false statements, and said they had agreed to a sentence but did not provide details in court, according to the AP.

Rocha is expected to return to court on April 12.

Prosecutors alleged in December that Rocha, a former State Department employee who served on the National Security Council and as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, spied on the United States for more than 40 years as an agent of Cuba.