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THE CIA AGAINST LATIN AMERICALet’s take Ecuador and Peru as an example.PA. It is not just increasing the contradictions themselves. Theywould be related to something relative to the leftist or national politicsof those countries. Sometimes they could intensify the contradictionsif it were convenient for the US political set up and, naturally, the CIAwould be involved.JG. Another matter of general interest: Is it correct to assume that theCIA highlights the differences and tensions between popular organizationsand revolutionaries in any given country?PA. Continuously in all countries where I worked (and I think this wasa standard operation) I always tried to use the information collected toexacerbate existing political contradictions. For example, in Ecuadorwe have the case of José María Roura, one of the then leaders of theCommunist Party of Ecuador. We set out, and we got it, he was arrestedand discovered him coming with money from China to exacerbate thegrowing schism between groups Sierra and Coast Party. That’s exactlywhat happened. Even more with Antonio Flores trip to Cuba. (Flores waslinked to the group headed by Rafael Sierra Echeverría). We produced areport submitted by him to Cuba. Then when he came back, we stoppedhim and “discovered” the document, which was made public. Such tradingis a way to cause division and in those cases there were expulsionsof several people from within the party. It also runs using rumors of oneperson against another, any kind of documents, etc. The CIA always triesto weaken and divide the most progressive forces. (5)JG. Speaking of divisions, you mention in your book that the manifestationof the FEUE in Quito on March 10 th 1962, backed up by therelationship with Cuba, was infiltrated by CIA agents with propaganda31