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perfectly reasonable. So, everything was open (...) my memory, but I can he mistaken, is that the concentration of probabilities in the figure of Eng. Amaro da Costa was much later ».

Regarding the constitutional review, and the new framework of the Armed Forces, Diogo Freitas do Amaral states that the statements made at the X CPITC reproduce, in essence, what he had said in an interview with RTPI:

«(...) I made statements to guarantee the Portuguese Armed Forces, and the parties politicians who might be suspicious of the Government's intentions, that the extinction of the Revolution Council and the subordination of the Armed Forces to civilian power would not imply any partisanship or any politicization of the Armed Forces. And I gave guarantees expressed in that interview, for which, incidentally, I was very congratulated, both by civilian politicians and by military chiefs, and which he effectively represented, in the reassurance of the Armed Forces and, I dare say, from a significan part of the Council of the Revolurion, as to what was being prepared, both in terms of constitutional revision and in terms of the Law of National Defense and Armed Forces. The constitutional review, if I remember correctly, was passed in September, the National Defense and Armed Forces Act in November. But, everything was prepared together. I do not take anything away from what I will have said in thar passage before the [Parliamentary Inquiry Commission], I would now like to clarify that when I say that, because of the strategic objective of the constitutional review and the Digest Law Nawignal and Armed Forces] did not want to generate friction with the Armed Forces: Sancrat Staten it was true and I maintain it. That's why I shouldn't give too much importance to little things, it was true, and I maintain it. But in those little things, obviously, the investigation on Camarate. I would like to recall that (...) it was only in 1987 that the Government received the report from the nominated Commission in the field of civil aeronautics, and only much more It was late thar he received the first report from the Judiciary Police, and only after that, the insatiable contradiction between the conclusions of the Commission appointed in the field of aeronautics

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und the conclusions of the Judiciary Police is that the Attorney General of the Republic arrived the conclusion that it should open a public inquiry, open to all citizeris, to contribute more information, if they had il, to clarify that problem thai seemed unsolvable. Because the commission of civil aeronautical engineers concluded that had been a crime, and the commission of layers, or rather the group of lauyers from the ProsecuiorGeneral of the Republic concluded that it had been a technical failure. Therefore, technicians aeronautics said it was a crime, criminal technicians said it has a technical failure. This it didn't muke any sense, this was a schizophrenia of the Portuguese State. At the time solution that the Attorney General of the Republic, who had the competence 10 conducting the investigation process, adopted was the opening of the public inquiry. In this At the time, nothing was known about what were the irregularities that could be in the Overseas (Military) Defense Fund. They were only revealed, as far as I remember, by the VIII Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry; nothing was known to do with the Iran WarIraq, ir was not known ut all that there could be problems with exporting and importing weapons for this War or for others, and therefore (...) the terrain was still being felt.