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THE CIA AGAINST LATIN AMERICANot as I remember. We had no direct contact with the Cardinal atthat time; we did have contact with priests who were well linked to theCatholic hierarchy in Ecuador. I don’t remember much right now, but Ithink I wrote about it and we could have some influence through money,through media, through different mechanisms.How the influence through the media was? How could the CIA reachthe media so easily?That should be revised as well, but there was a leading journalist in“El Comercio”, which had a column...¿Gustavo Alarcón?I don’t remember, that should be reviewed. But in any case we hadseveral journalists paid to post our materials under their names. Both inQuito at “El Comercio”, as in Guayaquil, so we did.Is that a common strategy of the CIA?It is required by everyone. These are “Media Operations”. At thattime, I do not remember, I think that television did not exist in Ecuador,perhaps arrived later, but the most important communication medium,of course, was printed press, and we had access to all the leading newspapers,both in Guayaquil as in Quito.When you write “Inside The Company” and evaluate Ecuador, youshould have notice, Mr. Agee, the mess it caused. Did you notice?What kind of mess?Political, what it caused in my country. Look, how the whole messoccurred during those three years.I have talked with some Ecuadorians about the reaction. Some havecontacted me and told me it was a very hard blow for the US governmentin Ecuador, but there were also, I do not remember, other kind of prob-95