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trained by the CIA, unleashed terror especially in the fields, sharpeningthe hate towards “communism”, towards Cuba, taking root in the supposedrevolutionary threats against the Catholic Religion.(8) According to data held later by Agee, it was the General RaúlGonzález Alvear, Head of Military Intelligence, who later led a failedcoup in 1975 against the so-called Revolutionary Nationalist governmentthat was presided over by the General Guillermo Rodríguez.(9) This is Colonel Federico Gortaire, Cavalry Battalion Chief of FebresCordero, who unleashed terror among the farmers of Manabi with thepretext of pursuing the cuatrerismo.(10) Luis Vargas and Mario Cardenas Villegas, chemical engineers, militatedseveral years in the Communist Party of Ecuador where they were recruitedby the CIA: when it split they became part of the leadership of MLCP.(11) Those of us who met the Major Atahualpa Bazantes, an importantmember of a leftwing family, thought that if he joined the CIA it couldbe rather to know their plans and management. He is not known for anydamage caused in the camp of the revolutionaries, unlike the known andharmful role played by other agents mentioned by Agee.(12) Jorge Arellano Gallegos was the right hand of General GuillermoDurán Arcentales during the triumvirate of 1975/78. He was closelylinked to Eng. Enrique Medina Veintimilla, whom Agee mentions in hiswork as an Agent of the CIA in Guayaquil.(13) In a book of great interest: “Legacy of Ashes (The History of the CIA)”,authored by the award-winning American journalist Tim Weiner, it is disclosedthat the CIA, in the years he studied them, had a program that “carried outthe training of 771,217 foreign militaries and police in twenty-five countries.Where he found the most fertile soil was in nations where covert action of the48