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"Operational Commands for the Defense of Western Civilization”), an organization designed to defend, if necessary through guerrilla warfare and resorting to acts of viotence, the “Western World Values", according to your own definition. Between 1974 and 1976, Fernando Farinha Simões, José Esteves and Carlos Miranda is said to have participated in the said bomb network.

Fernando Farinha Simões allegedly worked for the CIA from 1975, with Frank Carlucci portrecerce parten

Between September and October 1980, Fernando Simões asked José Esteves for his collaboration in a concrete operation, necessary because there are elements within the AD that would be creating problems with arms transport. Fernando Simões says that this operation will have been paid and executed by the CIA. He also informed Carlos Miranda of the operation, indicating that in it Lee Rodrigues would participate, asking him to support José Esteves in the manufacture of an explosive device for this operation. Carlos Miranda will have accepted, having stayed several days working on this mill at José Esteves's.

Allegedly between September and November 1980, Farinha Simões had several meetings in the Sheraton Hotel, in Lisbon, with Gary Van Dyk, from South African secret services, but who also he collaborated with the CIA and with secret service Americans, including Frank Sturgis.

In early November 1980, Farinha Simões invited José Esteves to participate in a meeting on a boat at anchor in Cascais, where there are about eight people, including Lee Rodrigues, Frank Sturgis and four other American citizens. It has been said that it is necessary to organize an operation soon, in Lisbon, to bring down a small plane. For this purpose Frank Sturgis will have given José Esteves 200,000 USD, stating that they should be used in the manufacture of a pump.

Later that month, José Esteves and Farinha Simões went to Hotel Altis, in Lisbon, where Juanita Valderrama, wife of Major Canto e Castro, would have given them a package with material for the manufacture of a bomb to be used in the attack in preparation. José Esteves will have taken the referred material for his house at Rua Elias Garcia nº 111, in Cacém, where he will have manufactured a milt explosive. Farinha Simões and Carlos Miranda visited the apartment frequently.

João Pedro Dias, who dedicated himself to small theſts, will have succeeded, at the request of Femando Simões, steal the card of Miguel Wahnon, a TAP employee, in order to allow entry into the airport al José Esteves. A pilot uniform was also obtained for Sinan Lee Rodrigues

Around December 1, a meeting took place in a palace known as the Palace Roquete, in Lisbon, which, being normally frequented by returnees, offered conditions for that this meeting should be held discreetly. Farinha Simões, José Esteves, Major Canto e Castro, Carlos Miranda and Sinan Lee Rodrigues. Major Canto e Castro, heard by Cominission via teleconference, permanently denied knowing any of the alleged agents involved in the Camarate attack. Fernando Simões will have revealed that the operation would take place days and that the target would be Eng. Adelino Amaro da Costa, who would be conducting an investigation on arms trafficking in Portugal. The referred operation would have the objective of protecting beneficiaries of said arms deal. It is referred by Farinha Simões that Lee Rodrigues he had been hired for this operation to place the explosive device manufactured by José Esteves.

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