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Later in 1966, I was at a CIA conference in Rio de Janeiro, where theywere all officers in charge of operations against Cuba. One of the peoplewho attended the conference was Warren Dean, who was still headof the CIA in Ecuador. He told me several things they achieved since mydeparture. One was the recruitment of Arellano. Dean was very happyabout this.JG. In Ecuador, many believe that Arellano was recruited in December1965, when he was detained at the Penal Garcia Moreno. Arellanowas appointed representative of the strike. Surprisingly, at the time heleft the prison, he left his companions on strike, and left the country in asuspicious manner, through a formal resolution that allowed him to exile.Arellano moved to Europe, and from there, in his capacity as leader of theMarxist Leninist Communist Party, traveled to Beijing, where he boastedas an official representative of his party. So when Warren Dean tells aboutthis in April 1966, Arellano had been recruited, probably in exchange forfreedom and exile that was granted. This recruitment would not thereforehave occurred on his return from Beijing in 1966, when he was arrestedobscurely in Bogotá. This is a fact worth remembering. You further notethat he had been observed before the vulnerability in the case of Arellano.PA. Yes. There are those vulnerabilities that the CIA is always lookingfor between militant groups and parties. These are, for example, the vanity,the desire to live in an upper status than their potential economics,resentment within the party, problems with higher common leaders inpeople who think their abilities and talents have not been used in accordingly.These are the indications that the CIA is looking like vulnerabilities.For Arellano, I think the most interesting factor for us, at that time, washis desire to live in a better status than its economic possibilities.40