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Better with Pepsi Max. This is the New World Report with Joseph Umar Executive Director of Security Society

commenting on the indictment of Manuel Ropka, the former U.S. Ambassador accused working for Cuba's spy service for decades.

Wow Joseph this story is too big for me. What do you make of it right now? What little we know he's been indicted yeah this is a big one John

because I mean up into this point the biggest Cuban spy that was ever

discovered in the United States was a woman in Annabel and Montes and she was

covered she was discovered in 2001 as being a spy that penetrated military

intelligence.

She worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Now that's a big case.

It's like the Aldrich Ames, like the Hanson of the Fabian Spy case that we know from the

FBI CIA. This was related to military intelligence. But this one really

surpasses it. Manuel Roaches has surpassed those cases because if you read the

indictment, which I I did I mean supposedly

he got recruited as a student he's of Colombian origin but he moved to United States

and he went to study here I think he went to Harvard Georgetown Yale all those

Ivy League schools,

and he got recruited as a student,

and one of his first assignments was 1973 in Chile.

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