Jaime Rocha

Jaime Rocha (1942, Larache, Spain) is a Captain of the General Corps of the Navy where he was stationed on different ships and the Harrier aircraft squadron. He navigated on board the ships of the US Navy in the North Atlantic and the Pacific. In 1979 he returned to the Spanish Intelligence Service, currently referred to as the CNI, working as part of the cabinet of the Director Emilio Alonso Manglano in Cádiz, in clandestine networks in Maghreb, at the Spanish embassy in Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1994 and as Head of the European and North American zones in the Foreign Division. After his move to the Statutory Reserve of the CNI in 1995, he was the manager of a tile factory In Alcora (Castellón). He writes assiduously for the Diario de Cádiz and La Razón (Spanish newspapers), participates in radio and television talk shows and was the founder and director of the magazine “Caballeros Hospitalarios”. He has published a compilation of news articles. He belongs to the management committee of the Club Le Carré for writers of the spy and intelligence genre.