A former CIA station chief revered by Miami’s anti-Castro circles now faces prison as an unregistered foreign agent. His path from Cold War covert ops to selling secrets says a lot about the political machinery he came from.

This story was written in collaboration with Belly of the Beast, an independent media organization that covers Cuba and US-Cuba relations.

A retired CIA station chief was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison on November 20 for selling classified information he combed from top secret US government databases to Angola’s ruling elite.

In the 1980s, Dale Bendler was sent by the CIA to Angola to undermine Soviet and Cuban support of its Marxist national liberation movement. Four decades later, Bendler was convicted for failing to register as a foreign agent wh

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