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“twisted” the history of Ecuador, and that must be known. For this reason,to prove what was said, I was interested in interviewing Philip Agee,because from what he wrote spawned a series of historical happeningsfor Ecuador, and because my drive towards the true history of the nationmerited it to be documented with his own testimony, so it won’t be lostor let the trail become cold.I searched for him for years. Strangely they had disappeared, boththe book as well as the agent. The book was “forbidden” in Ecuador,so to speak. Almost nobody has read it in its English version, despitethe global impact it caused with the revelations set forth by Philip Agee.Never has it been shelved in the small or large bookstores of the country,much less has it shown up in the subjective and commercial “10 mostread” list that is frequently published in the national newspapers. Still,the book was translated to 6 languages and, still serves as a sort of studytext for those who wish to know about CIA operations in our countries.As far as the “underground” version of 1,500 copies, that was edited,with the appropriate permission from Agee, by the “Second Independence”Movement directed by the respectable writer Jaime GalarzaZabala, in 1975, it was easily lost. There was no way of finding a singlecopy, and it seemed that “someone” who often controls the circulationof paper in Quito had acquired the writing, and did not want it to be readbecause the names and institutions mentioned in Agee’s book shouldnot be known.But, it was in 2000 that my brother Nelson Herrera Aráuz, with hisdrive as a voracious and intelligent reader, found a copy in a corner of the“cheap market” at Plaza Arenas, in Quito, with a price tag of 50 US cents.During the 80s I followed the leads to Philip Agee, who was nowhere70