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Miami (AFP) - A former US ambassador who pleaded guilty to spying for Cuba for over four decades was sentenced in federal court on Friday to 15 years in prison. Victor Manuel Rocha, 73, was arrested in December for what US officials called "one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the United States government by a foreign agent." Rocha pleaded not guilty in February to charges of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government but later accepted a plea deal with federal prosecutors. Judge Beth Bloom, after a three-and-a-half hour hearing in Miami on Friday, told R...
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Boston (AFP) - The US airman accused of leaking a trove of top secret Pentagon documents pleaded guilty Monday under a deal that saw him sentenced to some 17 years in prison in return for prosecutors dropping more serious espionage charges. Jack Teixeira, once a low-level Massachusetts Air National Guard IT specialist, was accused of orchestrating the most damaging leak of US classified documents in a decade, some of which concerned the war in Ukraine. Had he faced charges under the Espionage Act, Teixeira could have been imprisoned for life. Instead he appeared in a federal court in an orang...
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New York (AFP) - Jack Teixeira, the US airman accused of leaking top secret Pentagon documents in an online chat forum, will plead guilty to charges that could land him in prison for decades, court documents showed Thursday. Prosecutors requested a change of plea hearing for March 4, at which Teixeira will confirm his decision to reverse his current plea of not guilty. The Massachusetts Air National Guard IT specialist was arrested in April for allegedly orchestrating the most damaging leak of US classified documents in a decade, some of which concerned the war in Ukraine. He is facing six cou...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States is facing a new and "serious" national security threat, top officials warned Wednesday, with two media outlets reporting it involves a Russian attempt to build a space-based nuclear capability. ABC News and The New York Times quoted unidentified officials saying that Russia was developing a nuclear, space-based anti-satellite weapon. According to officials quoted in the Times, Russia has not yet deployed such a capability. In public, officials said there was no need for panic -- but refused to give details, only issuing cryptic statements about a serious ma...
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Miami (AFP) - A former US ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested and charged with spying for Cuba over a 40-year span, the Justice Department announced Monday, detailing a shock betrayal by a suspect who called the United States "the enemy." US Attorney General Merrick Garland laid out the allegations against Victor Manuel Rocha, a onetime member of the White House's National Security Council now accused of using his positions within government to support Cuba's "clandestine intelligence-gathering mission" against the United States. The charges against the 73-year-old retired diplomat expose ...
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Washington (AFP) - We are not alone -- and American authorities are covering up the evidence, a former US intelligence officer told a congressional committee on Wednesday. David Grusch testified that he "absolutely" believes the government is in possession of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs -- which has replaced the term UFO in official parlance -- as well as remains of their non-human operators. "I was informed, in the course of my official duties, of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program," Grusch said. "I made the decision, based on the data I collected...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden announced Friday that he has invited CIA Director William Burns to sit on the cabinet, a mostly symbolic elevation that recognized the US spymaster's broader role in the administration. Biden praised Burns for providing him "clear, straightforward analysis that prioritizes the safety and security of the American people." "Under his leadership, the CIA is delivering a clear-eyed, long-term approach to our nation's top national security challenges -- from tackling Russia's brutal aggression against Ukraine, to managing responsible competition with the Peopl...
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New York (AFP) - Jack Teixeira, the US airman accused of leaking top secret Pentagon documents in an online chat forum, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges that could send him to prison for decades. The 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard IT specialist was arrested in April for allegedly orchestrating the most damaging leak of US classified documents in a decade. He is facing six counts of retaining and transmitting national defense information. They each carry sentences of up to 10 years in prison. Teixeira appeared before Magistrate Judge David Hennessy in Worcester, Massachu...
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New York (AFP) - Jack Teixeira, the US airman accused of leaking top-secret Pentagon documents in an online chat forum, was slapped with additional federal charges on Thursday. The 21-year-old Air National Guard IT specialist allegedly orchestrated the most damaging leak of US classified documents in a decade. A federal grand jury in Boston indicted him on six counts of "willful retention and transmission of classified information relating to the national defense." They each carry sentences of up to 10 years in prison. The charges are in addition to the two counts filed by prosecutors against...
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Havana (AFP) - The Havana government on Thursday denied US news reports that it has reached a deal for China to set up a spying base in Cuba, just off American shores. Cuba's deputy foreign minister said the reports by The Wall Street Journal and CNN were "mendacious and unfounded." The White House called them inaccurate. The reports said Beijing and Havana have entered into a secret agreement for a Chinese electronic eavesdropping facility to be set up on the Caribbean island that could monitor communications across the southeastern United States. The region includes the US Southern and Centr...
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