Rosario Casas Dupuy
Colombian literary critic, translator and double agent
María del Rosario Casas Dupuy (born December 19, 1951) is a Colombian academic and retired intelligence officer. During the Cold War, Casas Dupuy worked at the Colombian Embassy in Mexico City, where she met her future husband, Aldrich Ames, and was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency. In 1994, she was caught and arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit espionage against the United States on behalf of the Soviet Union. After a confession and a negotiated plea bargain, she served four years in prison and then returned to Colombia. She has been involved in academia ever since, as a professor of literary studies and philosophy at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and the National University of Colombia. She has earned several honorary degrees and regional awards for her works in education.
Early life and education
María del Rosario Casas was born in Bogotá in 1951 into what the Colombian press referred to as the "local aristocracy". While she was growing up, her family, and local townsfolk, would often recount the heroic spy stories of her paternal great-grandfather. Manuel Casabianca – a distant relative of Napoleon – was that famous paternal spymaster, serving during the Thousand Days' War by monitoring the activities of Rafael Uribe Uribe. He was also briefly the Commanding General of the Colombian Army.
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