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that took place in civil aeronautics, I remember the conversation I had with the Deputy Minister, Dr. Francisco Pinto Balsemão who became the PSD's main representative in the coalition. I'm pretty sure, or at least I don't remember, that I didn't get a concrete list of pending matters, or matters in progress, and in particular, I did not take notice at that time - only much later, during one of the visits to these commissions -, did I take knowledge of this letter by Eng. Adelino Amaro da Costa to the General Staff. That that is to say that during those 30 days I did not insist on the General Staff General, I did not notice or was not informed that there was any urgent matter and as I really knew that the ministry had little time and little dispatch, I felt that curiosity».

Asked if there was any Government effort to question the authorities about the possibility that documents that the Prime Minister had found in the wreckage of the plane

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Minister or the Minister of Defense were hearers, who were confidential and whose confidentiality was necessary to guarantee, he replied:

« Nothing was communicated to me. The very existence of the suitcase. I only came to know it a lot later, I don't know if through the press or, later, in one of the parliamentary committees investigation, I assume that as the Judiciary Police was at the scene, it was take care of any documents or folders or objects of that type, but in fact at the time nothing was said to us ».

Questioned by the fact that, in his book on Camarate, he mentions that the Minister of Defense had well-founded suspicions that there were irregularities in the functioning of the FDMU and, as also there, he was unaware of the decree-law that extinguished this Fund, and bearing in mind that on 12 November the Government had made an unofficial note regarding the news from the newspaper Portugal Hoje, on arms sales to Iran, why didn't you feel the concem to see what's going on with the functioning of the referred Fund, knowing the void created with the disappearance of the Minister of Defense, replied:

« I believe that this is indeed what happened. My explanation is this: neither me nor any other members of the government, nor any of the chiefs of cubinet, had any experience of a similar or similar situation. We were all in u state of shock and we lived those 30 days until the formation and inauguration of the VII government Constitutional, chaired by Dr. Francisco Pinto Balsemão, we are in an abnormal situation. For some of great suffering, for others it was of great hurt, for others it was of total disorientation, because nobody knew if the Democratic Alliance was going to continue or not, who was going be the next prime minister, nobody knew if the coalition was able to continue or not, nobody knew, I mean now the ministers in particular and the secretaries of state if your experience was going to end. (...) Furthermore, as Minister for Foreign Affairs and in replacement of the National Defense, I also lived very distressed hours, in contact permanent with the President of the Republic, because news reached me through the

NATO of an imminent Soviet invasion of Poland, where the Solidarity union had