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THE <strong>CIA</strong> AGAINST LATIN AMERICAdifficult to measure the grade of success or failure, because the situation isflowing, is constantly changing, so for a <strong>CIA</strong> officer as me, or for the oneswho were working around me, we simply had to keep going day by day.And the remarkable side for me, the really striking thing, is that I could dowhat I wrote in my book: I could do all that through three years in <strong>Ecuador</strong>and nobody knew who I was, neither the other ones, that is, we couldto operate with impunity, without any risk. I, for example, at end of themonth, I would go out in my car and would have in my jacket perhaps tenor twelve envelopes with money, each one for different persons, and I hadto be careful: not giving “Raul” the envelope for “Carlos “, etc. So once Istarted to write my own book in the early 70’s, had to or made the decisionto include all the names of people who were stuck in this.At least a part is known, a large part is known, I do not know if all.That would be a point of discussion. Is everybody there?These are all the names I could remember, but after the book waspublished and became a best seller in many countries, and was translatedinto thirty languages, I lived at that time in Cambridge in northernLondon. Journalists from many countries contacted me, includingjournalists from <strong>Ecuador</strong>, but what they wanted was to denounce theidentities of <strong>CIA</strong> people in their countries, and this situation lasted forseveral years, but I had obtained directories of many embassies throughfriends of mine in Washington, and they sent me these directories, andby working with certain State Department publications, it was possible toidentify people from the <strong>CIA</strong>, I mean, apart from the State Department.That is, people from the Station, properly speaking...We, a group of journalist and I, were a lot of people and during fouror five years, revealed the identities of more than a thousand.93

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