Raul Rubiera | Miami Herald | Getty ImagesWhen Carolyn Lamb saw news of Cuban spy Victor Manuel Rocha's arrest on the news last December, she recognized him immediately.
The lower the value of the claims, the less the Cuban government would have to pay in any future negotiated settlement.
Ashby assumed Rocha's paranoia about eavesdropping was in response to the George W. Bush administration's opposition to the Cuba claims buying business.
But according to the Justice Department, by that point Rocha was already in his third decade as a Cuban agent.
File photo of former US ambassador to Bolivia, Manuel Rocha, talking to the press on the 11th of July 2001.
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