Joshua Goodman and Jim Mustian | The Associated Press

U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Lubbock Fire Department personnel help members of the DEA Hazardous Materials/Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement Team with a decontamination procedure in Lubbock, Texas in Oct. 2017.

Longtime DEA informant charged in alleged scheme to extort high-level cocaine traffickers

A drug informant who helped the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration build some of its biggest cases has been arrested and charged with scheming to extort major cocaine traffickers facing extradition from Colombia and the Dominican Republic.

This image provided by the Justice Department and contained in the affidavit in support of a criminal complaint, shows Manuel Rocha during a meeting with a FBI undercover employee.

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Career U.S. diplomat abruptly admits to spying for communist Cuba for decades

Joshua Goodman and Jim Mustian | The Associated Press

A former career U.S. diplomat says he will plead guilty to charges of serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades.

Then U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia Manuel Rocha in 2002.

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Red flags, missed clues: How accused US diplomat-turned-Cuban spy avoided scrutiny for decades

Joshua Goodman and Jim Mustian | The Associated Press

Long before career U.S. diplomat Manuel Rocha was arrested on charges of being a secret agent of Cuba for decades, there were plenty of red flags.