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processed the sale of arms in Portugal - in particular because at the date of December 4, 1980 there was a trade embargo on Iran - what is the real purpose of the existing funds of the Overseas Military Defense Fund and who was then responsible, and even in which extent these situations could somehow be related to the death of the Prime Minister Minister, Minister of National Deſense and other occupants of the plane.

In this sense, the hearing of Júlio Castro Caldas, a personal friend of Adelino Amaro da Costa, president of the PSD Parliamentary Group, at the time of the facts and that in 1999 took over the Defense portfolio.

This testimony had as its starting point a conversation held in Parliament between the then defense minister and Júlio Castro Caldas, when he was president of the PSD parliamentary group, between October and November 1980 23.

On the content of this meeting, he reported:

  • What Adelino Amaro da Costa talked to me at that time was about the complexity of delimitation of these competences benveen what would be an effectively military area and the area of competence of the Ministry of National Defense. One of the issues that was addressed in this conversation, obviously, was the export capacity of the war material that Portugal had at the time and, basically, the use, in that export, of war surpluses. The Fund does not was the subject of conversation, so I can't say anything about it; because I don't have even no precise indication of the conjectures that can be presented out this question. I never inquired. In relation to the models of action and supervision of the Ministry of

It is recalled that the legislative elections took place on October 5, 1980, with the victory of the Alliance Democratic, which included the PSD, CDS and PPM. 3 In this sense, he stated: “I confirm than I did have a friendly relurionship with Adelino Amaro da Costa since high school, I knew him well, und that after he served as Minister of Defense, I spoke only once with him about the functions he performed in the Ministry of Defense"

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Defense on the export activity of military material, I had to worry later, when ved as Minister of Defense. And therefore, about this I will have some idea thai I can pass on to the Honorable Members. The concern that Adelino Amuro da Costa revealed to me was mainly due to the difficulty in obtaining information information about the mechanisms. about the societies that existed about the capacity of protection that the Ministry of Defense even had over the military industry that it worked then"

And further added:

« At the time, in the course of this conversation, what was analyzed was the complexity of the topic itself and the squeamish that existed in a situation of uncertainty of competences, about who competed guardianship". He clarified: “ There was, therefore, a legislative and technical uncertainty as to whether military leaders to continue to protect part of the matter, including the deposits of military material with war surplus, or wherher the Ministry of Defense would be the entity