THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Phillip Linderman) - The Rocha Spy Case: Espionage and Conflicted Loyalty
The Trump administration must require that dual-national officials renounce any second citizenship as a condition of holding a security clearance. The post The Rocha Spy Case: Espionage and Conflicted Loyalty appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics The Rocha Spy Case: Espionage and Conflicted Loyalty The Trump administration must require that dual-national officials renounce any second citizenship as a condition of holding a security clearance. (Photo by James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images) The U.S. Department of Justice has filed suit to revoke the naturalized citizenship of Manuel Rocha, the former American diplomat exposed in 2023 as a long-running espionage asset of Communist Cuba. Not since Alger Hiss was unmasked as a Soviet spy has the State Department—and the nation—suffered such a profound betrayal by a senior diplomat. Rocha was a…Open