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THE CIA AGAINST LATIN AMERICAJG. Recently, the Ministry of Public Works officials honored, as outstandingtelecommunications engineers, Rafael Bucheli and AlfonsoRodríguez, whom you mentioned as effective agents of the CIA. Theceremony took place at City Hall. Can you clarify us the role fulfilled bythese as agents?PA. The engineer Alfonso Rodríguez was in charge of networks linesoutside Quito, while Bucheli was in charge of the plants. Rodriguez thenarranged some extra lines from the center of the Mariscal to the houseof Bucheli, who was in a closed corner, in a dead end near the street, on10 de Agosto. For these lines and through those connections, conversationswere directed to the house of Bucheli, where we installed recordingequipment. Bucheli gave me the tapes and I went to people who transcribedthe conversations. Incidentally, Bucheli worked with a third personwho was also an employee of the plants. Bucheli and his subordinatewere very active in the model airplane club.JG. Bucheli and the others were model airplane enthusiasts?PA. Yes. Once I brought from the US, in the diplomatic pouch, anadvanced model, as a gift for Bucheli.JG. Returning to Jorge Gortaire, I heard that at one point the CIAbought a car for him, a Jeep Land Rover. What do you have to say aboutthis?PA. This was in the spring of 1963, when we wanted reports frommilitary barracks from the south, with a view to a possible moveagainst Arosemena. Gortaire, as former officer, still had his friends inthe South fittings and other provinces, like his younger brother, Federico,who was Chief of Garrison in Manabi (9). So he could move, webought a Land Rover jeep, blue. Then he with his wife and son whose37