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On the afternoon of December 4, José Esteves reportedly drove with Farinha Simões to the Portela airport, where they will have met Lee Rodrigues, to whom the mill is delivered produced hy José Esteves. Flour Simões will also have met Frank Sturgis in the airport, from where he will have contacted William Hasselberg, who would work at the US Embassy in Lisbon and who will have collaborated in the operation.

When, after 8 pm, the Cessna plane takes off, Frank Sturgis and Farinha Simões would be on the end of the runway, outside the airport, close to a Ford Transit van that they would use for their personal transport. A few seconds after the plane took off, Frank Sturgis will have activated a control that will have exploded the bomb placed by Lee Rodrigues at the bottom of the plane, causing its fall in Camarate. By the way it exploded, this bomb may not have been, however, the one manufactured by José Esteves and Carlos Miranda, but another one, more sophisticated, allegedly supplied by the CIA to Farinha Simões.

José Esteves would leave the airport meeting Farinha Simões and Elsa Simões in the hairdresser "Baeta", in the shopping center of Alvalade, where she worked. Then they will have gone on to home of Farinha Simões, in Odivelas, where they will have seen the news of the plane crash. José Esteves will have been surprised, since he was unaware that Sá Cameiro was on the plane. After seeing the news on José Esteves made some calls to Lieutenant Colonel Lencastre Bemardo, with whomi would meet later. Lencastre Bernardo will have referred José Esteves to rest assured just because the investigation of the plane crash would have no consequences for him, but also because the device that José Esteves manufactured would not have been used in the operation, and therefore could not have been the cause of the plane crash. Lieutenant-Colonel Lencastre Bernardo repudiated, in Commission, all statements relating him to José Esteves and Fernando Farinha Simões.

In 1981 or 1982, Melo Alves, who worked with the Judiciary Police and who knew José Esteves for several years, he will have called José Esteves, putting him in contact with an agent of the PJ whom José Esteves would later identify as Victor Pereira. José Esteves will have revealed some details of the Camarate attack, asking in return for legal aid. It will also have counted have actively participated in the Camarate attack, asking what the possibility of not being accused for the act, if he showed repentance and confessed. The conversation was not followed up, since José Esteves will not have identified himself on the phone.

In 1985, as a result of a lot of noise around the Camarate theme, José Esteves will have gone to Brazil, counting on the help of 750 contos delivered to him by Farinha Simões, obtained from the US Embassy.

Later that year, Farinha Simões was arrested for drug trafficking and placed in the prison of Sintra, where he will have met Victor Pereira, now a prisoner. He allegedly confessed to him that participated in the Camarate attack, together with José Esteves. A year later, with eventual help from CIA elements, Farinha Simões manages to escape from prison in Sintra, traveling from then to Brazil, where he frequently meets with José Esteves. Then, Farinha Simões will have It is told, for the first time, that he knew that Sá Carneiro would be on board the plane, having the operation been approved by the CIA, through Frank Carlucci.

In 1994 Farinha Simões returns to Portugal. In 1995, he was arrested again, accused of drug trafficking.