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lems. But I tried, with that book, to describe how the CIA operates inLatin America, because what I wrote about Ecuador or Uruguay or Mexico,these operations were typical throughout Latin America, and what Iwanted to do was to provide a knowledge, the required knowledge soorganizations which were political repression victims could defend themselvesbetter, that’s what I wanted to do: so that they were conscious andknew very well the methodology.You mention in “On the run” that you never saw again those whowere your agents or contacts; you’d not ever followed them. Some ofthem, though you may not believe, reached to manage, in the Ecuadoriancase, the fate of the nation and are considered great men inone way or another, despite their betrayals. I’ll give you several names:Baquero De La Calle, Arízaga Vega, Córdova Dávila Cajas or Galarza,they are considered great men in my country and yet were CIA agents.Well, I don’t know if they can be called agentsContacts, informants?Contacts, informants or collaborators, one can say, but in the caseof Córdova Galarza, I don’t think he ever received money from me. Hecooperated with us while he worked for Jaime del Hierro, who was a ministerin the government of Arosemena. But there are a thousand kinds ofrelations that the CIA has with people who collaborate with the Agency.But eventually ends up being the same: an act of treason to his country,to providing information to a foreign country. It is an act of treasonagainst the Nation, whatever its type or regardless the purpose.Well I don’t think I ever got reserved information from some of them,that is, it was for taking actions regarding our intentions instead. In somecases you can’t call it treason, because as I said before, there was a like-96