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In addition to the three main areas of focus for the aforementioned works, namely the FDMU, the export of arms to Iran and the death of José Moreira, X CPITC also carried out steps with the former secret services of the German Democratic Republic - to Stasi, in the sense to verify the existence of any references to the Camarate attack in the vast documentary collection existing in the city of Berlin.

The confessed perpetrators of the attack were also heard in the Commission, namely Fernando Farinha Simões, José Esteves and Carlos Miranda, as well as others individuals identified by these as having links to the Camarate attack.

Finally, X CPITC experienced some difficulties in carrying out its work, namely those created by RTP in the provision of images, as well as the resignation of some embassies in giving information to Parliament, facts mentioned in this chapter.

3.5.1. Other testimonials

It is also important to mention some facts revealed for the first time in this Committee of Inquiry into the throughout their work.

Among the most relevant facts are those brought to Parliament by Isabel Mesquita Veiga de Macedo, personal secretary of the then Prime Minister, Francisco Sá Carneiro.

Despite never being formally heard in court, Sá Carneiro's secretary revealed that the decision to go to Porto was taken "a few days before", with the appointment of Sá's flight Aries at TAP a back-up measure - usual procedure - if the weather conditions were bad. The initial idea was to use the Cessna provided by RAR, similar to the plane that would be targeted in Camarate. However, at the invitation of the Minister of Defense, Sá Carneiro he would eventually dispense with the RAR plane (which had meanwhile headed for Lisbon), boarding the flight fatal. A relevant fact from the aforementioned testimony is related to the unmarking of the trip de Sá Carneiro on the TAP flight: contrary to the version of Conceição Monteiro, advisor to the Prime Minister, and also reiterated in the present Commission, Isabel Mesquita Veiga de Macedo affirmed perpetually, it was the person who canceled the TAP flight, just before the check-in closing.

Relevant to the work of the Commission was also the testimony of Diana Andringa, a joumalist from

RTP

According to the journalist, three RTP teams traveled to the site: the first team integrated the journalist Henrique Garcia, the second, the film team where Diana Andringa followed, accompanied by Margarida Marante, the third team was led by Joaquim Furtado. Upon arrival to the place, the journalist remembers that images had been captured and to have made a minimum of five interviews. Diana Andringa's work would appear in the Jornal da Uma on December 5, 1980, but not in the Jornal da Noite of the same day. Strange the fact, the journalist would end up trying find images captured by his team, having never been able to find them - it was the possibility of having disappeared or being used for new recordings mentioned.

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