La-CIA-contra-America-Latina-Capitulo-especial-Ecuador

THE CIA AGAINST LATIN AMERICAWe are at the end of 1975. I have arrived in London with the purposeof interviewing one of the most discussed personalitiesof recent times, whom the Ecuadorians owe more than onemisfortune to. It is Philip Agee, author of DIARIO DE LA CIA, a book thatshowed up this past January.Agee arrived in Ecuador in 1960 and served until late 1963 as a USspy. Among his exploits there are numerous cases of infiltration withinthe leftwing parties, in government bodies and rightwing organizations.At the time, the objectives pursued by the CIA were two:1. The destruction of the relations between Ecuador and Cuba.2. The overthrow of president Carlos Julio Arosemena, guilty accordingto Washington of nationalist waywardness.(1)Both objectives were managed through the men, mechanisms andepisodes described in Agee’s book with lurid detail. In both cases, theCIA used anticommunism as center of all their campaign, wrapped in anincredible knot of lies, forgeries, terrorism, bloody acts and purchase ofguilty consciences.After the revelations exposed by the ex operations officer, severalof the implicated people have been angrily defending their supposedlytarnished honor, while others have had the prudence of keeping quiet,and there have even been cases as that of ex-dictator, General MarcosGándara Enríquez who virtually recognizes, remorselessly, having cooperatedwith the CIA.(2)From here we get the need to interview Philip Agee, whose filed complaintsthe country knows only partially, for there is to date no translationto Spanish of the whole book.(3)21