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THE CIA AGAINST LATIN AMERICAreaucracy of people with certain capacity, certain experience, with money,with equipment, with people that can train others. The CIA does littleon its own; it acts through its natural allies, the revolutionary forces, in thecountries where it does act. The CIA uses the contradictions and the classstruggles within the countries where it acts. It is a mistake to think that itis all-powerful or omniscient. It isn’t. But there is sometimes a paranoia regardingthe CIA when not placed where it should be. It is a secret politicalpolice that acts through certain political and economic forces within anycountry, as it serves similar forces within the United States.JG. What can you tell us regarding the motivations that you had toabandon the CIA? Is it a change in political views? What underlying factorsdrive the attitude you take?PA. The personal process of abandoning the work of the CIA, afterwriting this book and going forward on the same path is a complex processand, probably, I don’t understand it very well even now. But what Ican say is that after working in Ecuador for three years, and even beforeleaving Ecuador, I began to stand against the people we were supporting.Because I was working hard on my tasks in Ecuador, as you can see in thebook, and we were trying to manage certain political stability so economicdevelopment would come and for the forces called “our friends” could instatereforms like the redistribution of income, agricultural reform, etc. Butthen I saw that the more success we obtained in our effort to support thetraditional political forces within the country and to crush the leftwing, thefurther away the reforms went, because the pressure disappeared. I beganto feel certain disgust towards the wealthy classes, which were who wereally supported. In Uruguay something similar happened. That disgustgrew. But at that time I saw no alternative. I simply became a bit cynical25