Prosecutors seek to strip U.S. citizenship from diplomat-turned-Cuban spy
MIAMI (AP) — Federal prosecutors are seeking to revoke the U. S. citizenship of former U. S. Ambassador Manuel Rocha, the imprisoned former diplomat who served as a secret agent for Cuba dating back to the 1970s in one of the longest-running betrayals in the history of the foreign service. The U. S. Attorney's Office in Miami filed a civil denaturalization complaint Thursday that would complete the Colombian-born Rocha's fall from grace, stripping him of the citizenship he attained after to...
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