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THE CIA AGAINST LATIN AMERICAly did it through this CEOLS. Now I do not know to what extent the CEOLSachieved power or influence. I have no idea. Now I do not know to whatextent the CEOLS achieved power or influence. I have no idea.In the 70’s, as a result of its publication, the direction of the CE-LOS changed. It’s taken over by the Socialist Party and in this momentheads the United Workers Front. Undoubtedly this syndical movementwas very affected in Latin America. The case of Ecuador is no exceptionand at this moment they were part of the three largest trade unionconfederations: the CEOLS, the FEDOC and CTE.Well, it’s about the same.You managed to find fertile ground to split. The fact that the Ecuadorianhad to face so much fragmentation; it is a fragmented country,divided and therefore easy to divide their institutions?Well, not. We exactly didn’t wanted to divide the organizations thatsupported US interests, rather, we tried to divide and weaken the leftistorganizations that had revolutionary programs that would clearly affectedour interests. Regarding to organization split, of course we tried it: wecarried out a psychological war against leftist organizations, we wantedto implant distrust, in order that nobody knew who was a spy, but therewere. And thus promote mistrust, foment division, promote suspicionsagainst each other, things like that. But that we did not do with the politicalforces which were friendly to our interests, it was only the left.You say, in a certain moment, that when communists, as Pedro Saadand Rafael Echeverría Flores, blame themselves among each otherfor actions caused by the CIA, they had reactions, quoting their ownwords, like: “What a ridiculous cover story.” Is that really the way ourCommunist leaders were? Were they permeable, were they likely to91