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wiretapping I mentioned earlier, as well as better control of travelers. Allrepression was left in up to the relations that the CIA had with Gándaraand the other two ministers.JG. About the Ministry of Defense of Ecuador: Did your work ever linkto the Ministry or any officer thereof?PA. In the Ministry of Defense, most of the time I was not working directlywith officials, but through others, like Roger Paredes, who was a retired lieutenantcolonel, who maintained his contacts within the Ministry. José VargasVacacela, our agent in the Police, had enough connection with the Ministry ofDefense. But when the military junta came, we started contact with a personI did not mention in the book, because I could not remember his full name.His name was Raul. I think he had a position in the Ministry of Information. (8)JG. Was the job “Raul” did, informative in nature?PA. Yes. It was he who was giving us information about the Ministryof Defense.JG. Among those you mention in your book as close associates ofthe CIA figure Alfredo Sánchez Albornoz, banker and eventually Ministerof Government Carlos Julio Arosemena. Then I learned that you too areconvinced that his son collaborated with the CIA. Remember this?PA. Yes. When the father was minister of government, I was in continuouscontact with Noland, but when he left the Ministry I no longer hadthe need to maintain that contact. The son, Alfredo, had served as mailor contact between the father and Noland. Then I went out and in cameanother officer named Palmer in Brazil. I saw Palmer in Washington in1966 and he told me that after I had left Ecuador, he befriended Albornoz’sson, and that he had served very effectively, in operational sense,the CIA station in Quito.36