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munist Party, I don’t remember what, and those were left behind afterthe bomb. Then we financed these enormous rallies, giving money forbus and omnibus rental and the rest to coordinate peasants in a rally tosupport the Catholic Church. Eventually the Cardinal himself, his housewas bombed in Quito, but he wasn’t here. He was at the Archbishop’sCuria that day.How easily was it achieved, in the Ecuadorian case, to seize syndicates,to intervene diplomatic headquarters, wiretapping, to activateghost political organizations? Do you really look it easy, was it simplethat moment?No, it wasn’t hard. We met engineers at the telephone company thatcooperated with us at wiretapping. As for the syndical scope, we establishedCEOSL which was affiliated to URIT and to the International TradeUnion Confederation in Brussels, this was an international framework.Mr. Agee, I was asking you: How easy was, for example, to interveneTrade Unions?Well, the CIA had a worldwide framework that counted with local andnational organizations. We established in Ecuador an organization namedEcuadorian Confederation of Free Trade Unions, and you must be carefulwith that word “free” because many organizations in the CIA used it.The term “freedom,” “libertarian” ...“Democratic”, that’s all. Well, we were financing this Ecuadorian tradesorganization through its General Secretary, if I remember correctly, hisEducation undersecretary, who was with us. It was a creation of us really,and the purpose of these operations was to deny syndicalism to the leftunions, such as CTE, that was the strongest and main collaboration, andwe worked for years trying to promote an alternative to the CTE, and final-90