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La-CIA-contra-America-Latina-Capitulo-especial-Ecuador

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THE <strong>CIA</strong> AGAINST LATIN AMERICAboth of us. Mine to tell him what <strong>Ecuador</strong>inmediato.com was about, histo ask me to tell this truth, his truth, as exposed during the interview.I felt the weight of his gaze, for if Philip Agee kept something fromhis time as an intelligence agent; it was the cold prolix of his expressions.Sometimes when he spoke with great emphasis he did not express theimpact of his words with his face. So went the interview, cold, direct, unflusteredby any of my questions, as he was unflustered by the accusationsthat still were heavy on his mind over his actions against our country.I can attest that Philip Agee was lucid and very clear in his answers.Despite the conditions of his life, he remembered with precision manydates, names and even the circumstances of his past in <strong>Ecuador</strong>, and thatcan be seen both in the audio and video of that dialog.I must confess that it is difficult to interview a character who has alreadyrevealed all, and at the edge of death to boot!That is why, this interview, as I often do, is not a judgment or an inquisitorialact. It is a dialogue to reconfirm his act of bravery in revealingwhat was hidden, and on my part a feeling of delivering a valuable historicalinput for <strong>Ecuador</strong>, with the needed check of journalism to know thetruth in the plane of strict informative justice.I wish to sign off with the clear warning that, to understand this dialogue,the last in Philip Agee’s life, one must read the extract from thebook “<strong>La</strong> <strong>CIA</strong> por dentro…Objetivo <strong>Ecuador</strong>”, which we have digitalizedwith the appropriate authorization that Agee gave me to do so, to providecontext to the interview, knowing full well that his book was notbroadly distributed in <strong>Ecuador</strong> or at least not enough to make a dent inthe history of the nation.The extract quoted in the book is revealing. I ask that you read it care-73

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