As part of a long-running counterintelligence program, Manuel Rocha, a 73-year-old former US ambassador to Bolivia, was arrested in Miami on Friday and charged with being an unregistered agent for Cuba, the Associated Press reports, promoting Cuban interests without properly registering with the federal government. Y’know, like New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez (who should resign).
But if you read the story at Fox News–which incidentally, is sourced from the very same AP story this National Zero story is–you’d think Rocha was the personal spy of Fidel Castro. And you wouldn’t know he was a 25-year State Department employee, entering the diplomatic service during the Reagan Administration. Nor would you know he left the federal government in 2002.