America has had a Cuban agent in its midst for 42 years

INSIDERS HAVEDGIUS long known that Cuba’s foreign intelligence agency—the Intelligence Directorate, or in its Spanish acronym—punches above its weight. Evidence of that came on December 4th when the Justice Department charged Victor Manuel Rocha, a former American ambassador, with secretly serving as a Cuban agent for 42 years.Mr Rocha would be one of the highest-placed moles that America’s government has recently found. An indictment says that he started working for Cuba no later than in 1981 and joined the State Department that year. He went on to become the top official for the Americas in the National Security Council in the White House, a senior diplomat in Havana, deputy ambassador in Argentina and ambassador in Bolivia between 1999 and 2002.