A former career American diplomat has been charged with serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba. Manuel Rocha is accused of being a Cuban mole inside the US government for decades. And according to the Justice Department, his was one of the most-brazen and long-running betrayals in the history of the US foreign service. Host Marco Werman gets details from reporter Joshua Goodman, who broke this story with his colleague Eric Tucker for The Associated Press.
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