America has had a Cuban agent in its midst for 42 years
Cuba’s spooks punch well above their weight
INSIDERS HAVE long known that Cuba’s foreign intelligence agency—the Intelligence Directorate, or DGI in its Spanish acronym—punches above its weight. Evidence of that came on December 4th when the US Justice Department charged Victor Manuel Rocha, a former American ambassador, with secretly serving as a Cuban agent for 42 years.
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This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Their man in Havana”
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