The American Conservative
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Frida Ghitis: It's impossible to read the U.S. Attorney complaint against Ambassador Manuel Rocha without deep sadness and outrage.
Ghitis says Rochas ' loyalty was to the tyrant Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution.
She says the case of Alger Hiss , perhaps the most notorious of all American ideological spies, is similar to that of Hiss.
Manuel Rocha was a rising Foreign Service star, destined for ambassadorship in Bolivia .
He was recruited by Cuba ’s Dirección General de Inteligencia, Cuba .
He likely double-crossed numerous anti-Castro Cubans , particularly democratic and human-rights activists, he says.
He says the likely damage of his treachery to U.S. policy in Latin America cannot be minimized.
President Clinton 's diplomatic initiative failed because Castro revealed his true colors in 1996 .
Clinton declined, wisely, to rise to the bloody provocation, refusing to go down a path that possibly could have made the U.S. military responsible for Castro ’s broken-down country.
As his former friends and colleagues await news of his judicial fate, it is probable that Manuel will never renounce his service to Castro .
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