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THE CIA AGAINST LATIN AMERICAIwas chasing this interview for 30 years. It was in 1977, while spendingtime in the classroom of the “Mejía” that one of the classmates that wasmost influential in my political upbringing, Pedro Saad Vargas, today arenowned theater playwright, gave me a “clandestine” book that madethe rounds within the political circle at Quito. It was an extract of “La CIApor dentro – Objetivo Ecuador”. The book “Inside the Company” writtenby the american Philip Agee in 1976, had made its way to Ecuador in asurreptitious manner, despite the fact that a good portion of it referred toour nation, as it told in an impressive manner how the history of the countryhad been “twisted”. It was repulsive to read in those days how low thefall was of those who sold their country, and at that time they were namesthat sounded up to date, that were active in Ecuadorian politics, they werethe holders of morals and promoted the “return to the constituted order”.As many of you know I began as a television reporter in 1979, andmy journalistic activity took me close to many whom were “contacted”,or vulgarly known as “agents of the CIA”. I had the righteousness toconfront several of them regarding their sad past, and the answers weremarked with the cowardliness of being caught, but they tried to justifythemselves saying “at the times… you see, maybe we were understood”,but they admitted to have “sold themselves to the CIA”, andhad betrayed their country.Today, most are dead, and I believe of all that were named onlytwo or three survive, whom must carry, along with their old age, a pastwrought with betrayal, the most ignoble of human gestures, and thereis no shame in revealing their names, as there is none in accusing thememory of the dead, for with their attitude they brought harm, provokedmurders, destroyed others’ homes and divided the country. That is, they69