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14-00000 ESQUIRE MARCH 197T AR. 20!. APPEARED eR AGP ie * tate se Are There Pay Phonés in Caracas? and a lot of steaming intrigue. ae z What’ ‘are: our chances of, etting “throug ‘this ’ alive?” asks Rothchild. S : _ ie Weil, that all depends ¢ on who | you- ‘talk to ‘and “how. : ‘paranoid | ‘they are,” says Branch.. “Our friends in 74 ‘ Washington used ‘to. ‘be simple: journalists. and policy - analysts. Now they are three-pay-vhone men. That means you. can’t call them without using three pay - phones. Xow call them tip and ail they'll say is ‘phone number ore.’ “Then they go to pay phone number one aud you. call them again. Then they ask you ‘for the * :nuinber of dnother pay Phage n near yours, and they call .youonthatone.”  . a ~ “What de you talk about?” .. --““Things ‘like § pay phones and letter ‘bombs and wheth- ..er the Feds can be trusted. The last time I called they told me we would be walking inte four nests of known killers: the Cuban exiles in Venezuela, the Venezuelan “secret poliea, the C.LA, and # the Chilean: ‘secret + police.” “Is that true?” ee: .- 2 pe ye oe a” ~- “How. two imild- mannered reporters, on nthe ° oo trail of a Washington bomber, - Janded i in Caracas and ran afoul of the | =¥+2..” Venezuelan secret service, warring “Cuban terrorists, the Miami police, the State Department, the C.LA., the FBT. 0s" and the most dangerous man alive ~all this, and their mothers didn’t know . ‘a damn thing about it “They are. on ‘the Pan ‘Ara night Aigh to Caracas; three’ - L hours. away. “from ‘at least” a’ ‘hundred Jurder Stories : am - _ OLA, Cubans he has known, especially since the point - -ig always that the situation is-too complicated for . " your mother you were going to Veneruea?” _- - ventil we get rid of ik We'll have to hore it out of ‘the way Branch reels off the life histories of all the - words, “Tell me,” Rothchild says 3 gravely, “did you tell . _ Branch squirms at the cruel question. He wants io: appear as knowledgeable and confident 2s possible, be- . cause he has dragged Rothchild into this adventure on on . leas than a day’ notice. “No, I didn’t tei! ber,” mits. “It's too complicated. But I think well only ae one point of danger.” . eT AE ete “When's ‘the point of danger?” tg Cer OUR B ’. “Well, we may get into the prison. and get our ane - swers,” Branch replies, “or we may get them from peo-- - ple in the Venezuelan government. Either way, we'll know who did the murders and whe paid the killers _ anc what other murders they” ve done. That’s what we hone, anyway. If we get that information, we'll be hot wetter ied Pow cabaret
C fy . for the presicent of Liberia; he never said a word ‘ ranch looks out the ae lease and pictures es Orlando Letelier lying in the middle of- Massacliusetts Avenue,, his legs blown off at tha thigh,’ his torso pub - ee ~verized, detectives all around, On ‘the curb nearby sat. zi his passenger Ronni Moffitt, her eyes frozen, boiding | _s-S her throat. The bomb in Letelier’s car had blown’a pee sliver of, metal through Ronni Mofftt’s carotid artery, - es and: she was drowning in her own blood. Her husband gat nearby,’ suffering from shock, watching ‘his wife iF die. She was twenty-five. The killers were the kind of : people whe would machine-gun a whole crowd of people - in a public square just to hit their mark. They 5 \ wouldn't care about the others. Ronni Moffitt could just . a3 easily have been half the people Branch knew In “-iVashiagton. The next day Jerry Ford rede right over - ~ the bloody spots in the roxd-on his way to a reception “about Washington's frst gangiand-style political as “ sassination. Unwise to. talk about it, especially if the © ‘force behind the rhurdera is most likely the govern--- Salvador Allende with a-big bédst from the CIA,-~ telier ° was ‘ambassador to the United States ‘under ‘A Fand’ defensé minister. He had been jailed and tortured - ; by_the. generals after the coup, then, a year’ later, de ‘Branch: “had heard many Cubans tell tales about ca: nd its. “predecessor, C3. It- was the GLA.'s favorite . “substance for sabotage in. the war. against Castro, and” had ‘not been surprised when evidence came out shat: -v Cuban exiles. raight have pulled the Letelier job, but “he was surprised by tips he received that they had also ° bean. God, there Is something, hig going on, he had - thought. And all his sources and his instincts teld him 5 ‘the answers were in V enezvela, of all places, “> ; “So you : decided to tuke B& Little ‘trip | to ‘Caracas too, I.” ane “0 Te! ae ware PTS _ are two young Latin imen in the back with neatly *, " cops. . at ae “gent of :Chile. . The ‘military junta there overthrew - which is ‘still thick a3 thieves with the geherals. Le. *lende, then foreiga affairs minister, “‘interiér minister _ ~ Ca: ‘aiwhita, odorless dough ‘resembling’ Silly Patty. as thousands of Cubans were trained in its use. Branch” * 7 It-was_ now October 2h, one month to! the day since a8 SE at ea Se RR pare Cg MP gel ne AT Fete CSM OS guess.” It is Hilda I n, 8 reporter for rhe Aiami : News, standing in the aisle, looking down af us. Sho . is aspeciahst on Latin terrorism in Misra. “Looks like it.” says Branch, shrugyiney. So much for the secret trip. Yet he is inclined fo trust IncLin, even — though he and Pothehiid had met her only that sy, while going throuyh clips at the morgue of the Neus. .The three work out « way to mike contact in Caracas. Branch is embarracsed at being a itte reserved. Inclan ig candid, her face cheerful and open. . ‘Unclin leans over and whispers, “Listen, I think you oa “should be careful. There’s something strenge going on. This flight is crawling with cops and Prosecutors: from, Miami” 0-5 Pott ts owe oe 2 : : . Branch and Rothchild’ turn their. heads in unison, trimmed beards, unisex hairdos and brightly colored * shirts. There aré several men in the front who do not ° look like ordinary passengers. Rothchild decides there a tight not be any ordinary passengers. . & - “What are they doing here?” Branch asks ‘bluntly. . - “Who knows?" says Inclin. “I know these guys from ~. Miami. They give me tips -sometimes. But new they | “aren’t giving me the time of day. 1 don't understand ° them, so I’m going to act just like they are. I don’t : ‘think you should tet thera in on what you're UP, f0,° either.” — _-: Tey = > “Those cobs “ara . Cubans, aren't they?” Branch “asks.” | ~4 qf %y ee aes ee Tt 27 “-Inclan nods. Branch worries. Cubans on the Miami “police force are a strange lot, he has heard. The tops want to infiltrate Cuban terrorist groupa and -drug- - running organizations, but sometimes it turna out that the terrorists and drug runners are inf fltrating the ue . a o> ae oe Branch and Rothchild ‘exchange signs of bewilders : “ment 2s 3 Inclin drifts back bo her seat. Jesus Christ, killed hundreds of others 6n a big’ spree in the ‘Caribe’ - =F rat Pea eae ae Sea a IE x
ams, John,” Branch mutters. “E figured we'd be in for some scrapes, but [ never thought it would start before we esen pot there.” Then he’s all business. “I've got to give you a quick briefing on cur maia man while we have the chance. We may nol, have as much leisure time as we expected.” . So eet ae ‘ae ~ Niet pate fe ote . Branch pully down their dianer trays and spreads out a pile of notes and news clippings. Then he pulls out a police mug shot. “Meet Orlando Bosch,” he says. Rothchild stares incredulously at a porcine Cuban man with a thin moustache and thick lips “He looks rE like the headmaster of a military school.” “I know,” Branch says, “but he’s a kifer. He's also “ a pediatrician, This. whole thing’s like that—yia and yang, Eoaton Strangler and Mad Hatter all mixed up.” “Branch eyes the mass of clippings and notes, wonder- - : _ing where to begin. “It would take all aight to go through) what I’ve heard about Bosch, so Vl get you. aa to’ Letelier as quick a3 I can ‘for now. The’ back: .. : ground is simple: Bosch. has: ‘been a political terrorist-— - that they call an action man—ever since the Iste For- | -. ties in Cuba. He worked for Castro, then for the GLA, and then he denounced the C.1.A. He baa been an anti- *. Castro outlaw since the mid-Sixties, always telling the .. Miami? Cubans not to ‘trust the C.LA. ia theif war , ‘against Castro, Now most of the hard-line Cubans bé- _ lieve him Bosch is the patriarch of Cuban terrorism.” Branch pauses, -then flips briskly through the clip- pings. “Bosch got arrested and‘indicted pretty regular. _., ly all through the Sixties, He usually gat o2. The wit- ’. messes against him tended to aweat a Jot and forget ‘things on the stand, if they even showed up, In gen- . eral, Bosch had a threefold dperation: first, political wo terror against Castro sympathizers; second, ordinary ':  erimes like extortion from rich people and companies “4. to finance ithe political terror; and third, all kinds of . wars and’ feuds with his térrorist rivals, Fizally, Bosch t.nailed | in 1968 for shelling a a Polish freighter in ‘them. The word was that C.LA. stooges were being - ures with names like Ernesto would pop up in the Mi- | ” turn to the United States despite all he’s waated for.” . big pile of money. I heard all kinds of stories about © _ right before Kissinger visited..The rumor iz that he . the terrorists united inde? Bosch in an umbretia group | was killed, terrorists blew ap a Cuban plane near Rag. :! . bados, killing seventy-three people. Castro blared! the : J terrorists, loved ft: Castro and the Americans petting ret John Kothehila _ Hilda Inclan | . ‘ Miami harbor. ‘He got ten 3 years, but he’ was ened” ia 1972. That brings us to his international period.” .Branch picks up one particular clip and holds it in - readiness. “Bosch went underground two years after — ‘his parole and the pace of Miami bombings escalated, - So did terrorist bombings against Castro's embassies -. \ va all over’ the ‘world. Then, in 1974, important Cubans - started getting. knocked off ion Rangland-styte murders, ~ - A lot of groups, including Bosch's, tock eredit for -: ry eliminated. Eosch bécame @ phantom, Blysterious fig- - ami press to speak for him. Here's a Aliom? Netes clip from this period. it's headlined ‘Bosch Declares War . on Castro.” Hilda wrote it, She's the last American re- porter to interview Bosch. Shortly after it came out, Bosch slipped out of the country.” - -vl.+ : While Rothchild-studies the clips, Branch continues, “He got arrested in Venezuela about two years ago. The Justice Department decided not to ask for his re- * That’s weird. Then the Veneznelans turned him loose and he left with a bunch of Chilean bodyzuarcs and a | ” there, bargaining. Now the stories jump to February - . of Jast year, when Bosch got arrested in Costa Rica’. “wag plotting to assassinate Kissinger. Bosch got out | “ot Costa Rica: ‘soinehow, and pretty soon there % Wasa": ‘secret nfeeting in the Dominican Republic of all the © major Cuban terrorist groups, which the Dominicans ~ - allowed; of course. There was a negotiated trace, and ‘called CORU, supposedly with the: Support of several | _) juntas “tn Latin America. 05 eo pee lbs ‘Now in the last month there hai been the. Latelier " murder,” Branch continues grimly. “The herrorists | :| | ‘| 4 . States. right-in the capi ital. They have even tkréatened - to bill one ‘of the F. #.E. agents én the Letelier case. | b And his flanéée. The anonymous threats show they “j ‘have collected a lot of intelligence about the agent’s | Hfe. Tha FBI. is upset. Then, (wo weeks after Letelier C.LA. and canceled the antr-skyjacking treaty. The - psareester es | + tee tthe
Reem eaeaie oa Ete? s) il mad at each other. Thea Basch got ar al in Vene- znuela again, along with a whole bunch of Cuban exiles, Stories have-Been seeping out in the Venezuelan press Hooking Bosch with both Leteler and the Cutan plane. } l picked up similar stories In Miasai. My gources there tell me the Cubana in jail are almost ail fnew oe OTA, - men, £.0.1, informants and a few veterans of the Ven- ezuclan aecret police, the DISIP. Some peuple say PDIStP has tortured the hell out of these guys, but other people say DISIP fs in bad with them——holding them under protective custody till the heat blows over. Te 3 the biggest damn t mess you ever sav.” aa “ ily 7 . as . “You folks woulda’ t mind telling me who you are and what you're up ta, would you?” 22... Rothchild and Branch leok up “at the man standing . in the aisle. He wears a leisure suit with a Bashy shirt cs omg ee Ln “opened to his sternum, showing: & lot cf tan and some — : ae “What makes you think we can gel into the prison to Sate. tufted chest hair. 6 .« 705-25 - . Well ‘doing? We're just thinking about racetracks and Cu- bans and stuff like that.” © 0°) St ee getle tan "."Corse on now. You can tell me,” the man urges. “* ™“Don't tell hia anything,” says Hilda Inclan from behind. She Is laughing as If it were a : game, but her eres signal a warning. we ee . Branch is way off-balance. “I'll take the fifth. Wy gon" twestart with you?? OCC Pst . “Okay,"Veays the man, smiling. “rn play it your, way, feiend: My name’s George Yoss. I’ m an assiatant state’s attorney out of Miami.” He flashes an ID card. ~ Branch and Kothchild can’t believe it. He seems more { like a cendominium salesman who wishes he could baa goaf pro. “Is that right, Hilda?” Branch asks. . *Yeah, but he’s being a bad boy tonight,” she re- "ples. “Tell. -hira to aind his own business, whatever - “Okay.” saya ‘Yosa, “Pm. going to give you one more “chance. Lh know you're a ‘journalist. Why don’t we start a - With who you work for?” >> ~ 8 "ayes ie eu a Branch looks down ‘and not ices that his hands have” : ‘been’ covering up ‘the news ‘clips ings unconsciously. . ~ oThese gave mé away, | eh?” he says weakly. “I'll tell you what, You've got me a ‘Tittle paranoia. Why don't" “you give me the hare of your, hotel and” i Tt call you _ when, - over.” “le ays oe ta Why don’t we start “With who you work for?” Yous “persists, ‘He is still kidding, but there is an edge to it.” .“Yoa may need me down here. You never Know. This ; , ds a strange’ country and you guys could: find yourselv es. ° : on the next plane out, FIL sive you one more chante.” "FE think I'll lay low for the momeat,”. Branch’ says: | Yoss makes a few more thrusts, then saurters aff. t _ the sty,” Brasch says, “That sure didn’t work out. This . figtt's like a goddamn convention! Tell’ me, Hilda. ~ None of the Cuban cops is named Rad! Diaz, I hope?” “Phat's Diaz right behind 50u,” she réplies.. ™ 720k shit!" says Branch. He turns slowly ia his seat “and- fads himself | _Staring at one of the handsome: _Cudans. | cr Sarr Lee lee Serb el. “You must be Taylor Branch,” Ratl Diaz says with Pe Be ge Tan TD be oe, ae s ah. as Ry SC ‘smile ate 7 Feat ee are ve i+ some of them are left-wingers. T don’t care about any> _ so - 2 separate. The only way we can do that is to stay kind * says Branch, “I’ o ‘not sure. “What are “you . * Bosch knows that would mean curtains for him, He ° 7 ¥ out to be flaky?” | * . operator, even though he’s only in his Jate thirties. He “Maybe I was too set on gettifg into‘the country on _ “ty “loose, Morales’ car was blown up. He survived but ies ” So pee: nest St tate te pikes aT as < Yai ae serena ge a: ot BIT eR el Teele oS whey . “And you're Raul.” Br. 4: gives him a Emp hand- shake and stumps down In his seat Hilda Inian shakes di i her head and walks off.” “Who's Radit’ asks Rothchild. “He's Rolando Martines’ son-in-law, One of the Was ferste cuye Dopiat a wt of Lime with him is Miami.” J “What's so had about that?" asks Rotheh:nl, . aa ca i my Cuban contacts are, andl I don't know what the hell ho’s up te, You see, some of the people who have been “I don't know, H's just that he probably koows who telling me about the terrorists are right-wingers ond ; } t ” thing except the Letelier murder, but I think is would =: ; be healthy for us if we could keep the twe groups —. wae 7a reset br Wade et aeE* » . one * of incognito.” . “You're doing great so “far, ” Rothehitd saya His ‘ mind hes been wandering over the Rosch briefing. see Bosch and his friends?” he asks. “And way. would . they want to talk.to us?® 6 7 6 Re . “It’s along shot,” Branch answers. Bat Basch i isin. a ‘tough spot. The Castro government wants him, and - also knows that he could get killed any day in Vene~ ‘zuela by either his friends or his enemies. He may fige | . -ure that-his best chance to survive is to come ta the *; *. United States. What we hope jg that he wants ts get: " some of his story out in the American press to ferce ~~ the government to turn the screws and get him bie’ in the States. That's what I hear from some of our Vene |.” zuelan contacts, J don’t know if it's true, but they are | ‘pretty high up. Now even if we can’t talk to Bases and ‘the other prisoners directly, we might get stud iadi-”.. rectly from the Venezuelansa.” . _ - “What happens if all the Venez uelan contacts turn “Then we'll just have toy poke @ around,” ied says. Branch. ot have a lot of names. There’s only one guy I keow- = ‘down here personally. He’s a Cuban named Ricardo - "Morales. I interviewed him back in 1974, just before - _he came to- Venezuela, People in Miami tell me he's “way up high ia the DISIP, the secret police. I dan't. ~ know what he's doing now, but he might be. a geod” "fallback if nothing, else works out? Pos shad. ~ Branch’ replies, “but I liked him anyway. He doesn't .- | “have any iHusions about ihe business he’s-in, and he wee makes fun of all-the people who do. Ricardo f an old . svorked for Castro's secret police. Then he worked for- . he CLA, as an explosives expert. He fought for the > Agency in the Cango in the mid-Sixtiés, and thea be” “ eathé an FLL. informant. He's, the guy wha got Bosch ‘convicted in: 1969." Smiall world, isn't it? He surfaced ot > in cotirt with everything on tape, Then all hell broxe piace ty wey. 1 e ‘a og whes h Aste belhe whey oh eo? ‘ “bh: amed Rosch for. trying to kill him, Morales himself 22. s was Indicted for Rretlegree murder, but he Set ef, a +7. He's a survivor if ‘there ever was one.” =~ vogh ASAT S " r2 "So he must hate Rosch, then,” gays Rothebild, > >. = a) ‘Well, yes," saya Branch. 62 ed if corneneeerrreetety rE yng
. “ami. Jaw-enforcement contingent and “fe sounds like Thosch and Morales have tried hand encugd ta kill each other.” Heanch hesic . tates and then decidtea net ta tell Hothe ( child that sume of the old CEA, Cubans in AMkami believe Bosch and Morales have patched things up. ranch does not believe it and it would inake things tov gnarled, “t's amazing that the Yeadrue- Jans would have a guy Tike Morales high up in thelr security apparatus,” he gays absentniindally? 1 mean he’a a Cuban, and he has worked fur Castro, the C.LA., and the F.B.I,, and he's a veteran cf gungland.type warfare, it's ke dinding a West German high upin the CLA, snd then discovering that he has also worked for the KG and the Shah of fran, But from what I hear, that’s a pretty com. “son background to have down here. Y There are Cubans all over Latin Amare fen” ix, Branch hevins packing up the news. ~ elips, “Im paranoid as hell aout this - plane,” he saya, “We're supposed to get oa call at the hotel around midnight. . That gives us am hour te got through - “customs and_ get settled. § want to v hustle away from’ these guys aod. make ” ; sure we're on time.” ww woe nee! i fae eh tt vee a ste A Greeting from Rémulo . Rethchild and Inclan aotica a huddte "of shady five-footers lurking Ja a dark :eorner betide the airport entrance. ~ > They muat be o Venezuelan tour group, _. Rothchild thinks, waiting for # bergain > flight ont of the country. I'm not going C to get parancid about-everythiny I see. ‘But the group stares at the pasaen- . gers; theie suits blend so well inte the shadows that all you see are their mir- -vor sunglasses, They look like « dis- play of Foster Crants at the back of an unlighted drugstore. - ‘ ' “They stop losking only whan “the * Miami assistant state’s atterneya and cops; the same ones who have been — » bugging Branch oa the plane, go aver. aiid give some of the men in tha rahad- - ows warm, Latin’ embraces. inclan’ > = thinks it isn meeting between the “Mie f “the. Venezuelan ‘secret ‘police, She : éatehes up Im tha line and. say3.ehe has eo recognized one of the people in the’ po- “lice “huddle as Ricarde Morales, ths ‘mysterious Cuban who is supported to- “be Branch's fallback contact in. Cara. - eas, Branch 1s stuined. First he is read- “Ine clips about Cubans and cops, and ‘the Cubans and cops start fingering T him on the airplane. Now Morales. 2 “Give me your papers. and follow =me!"-2 voice booms suddenly, It be- *. Tongs to a man in o turtleneck sweater “and leather jacket. A fluaky moves next to each reporter in the line. There |e _ hothing to do but hand over the pear ‘ ports and follow. *- Turtleneck and his gaig herd the Feo porters inte a special room at the back of the sirport. He disappears inte an- other oifice, leaving them alone with an oid man seatal behind a desk, There - fs furious. typing coming from the adja teak teor: inte which Turtienerk has disappeared, iis Aunkies keep running - _s, Spanish, either.” back and forth from one «am ts the other, Ta about tea minutes, Turtlenesx roe turns and hands each of the reporters a eilacién—on teipheate, Rothchild, trans- lating fer Brauch, doesn't remember the fepal definition of the word cifce cidm, He does, however, recognize a word farther down in the document-— edseel. Carcel means jail The reporters are being summoned to attend some hind of inerting in a sinister- ssounding room, D-024, in a bullding somewhere in Caracas at nine a.m. the following day. The letterhead’ belungs to DISIP, Turtleneck keeps saying if ia all rou. tine-—just siga the etaciin and every- body ean get a good night’s sleep, While - Rothchild struggles to understand the , fine print, Inclin tells him she thinks it “night be a mistake to acknowlecge the ‘gtummons, It might conceivably be con- -strued as dn admission of something, - and the reporters don’t know what it is for. Inclin devides to try an offensive to get information. She whips out her. notebook as if to write a trafic ticket and cska Turtleneck what his name is. Fre doesn’t answer, She repeats the "question and. finally he mumbles, “ine ‘ spector Romulo.” ' “That's all there ls to it?” “Yeah. Just Romulo,” . “Who ordered yor to do this?” “{ dan’t know, [ean’t say. It's just a procedure,” + “Why is this happening to us?” “It is so because it iy so.” : Tnchin writes that down. Branch, whose rudimentary knowl edge of Spanish often led him to offend the Cuban community in Miami—-where he would mean to say “what a grand wedding this is” and end up saying “what tremendous tits you Save"—is getting a headache trying te keep up “with the conversation. “Isn't there ‘ he keeps asking. '*Thats all’ right, Md says Rothchild. “The guy isn’t saying a damn thing in - Inclan agrees. © --- ~ ‘ The reporters get nowhere... Police _ keep circling, .and an evasive Rémule keeps cracking his knuckles, pacing back and forth oetween rooms, thrust- & door-to-door calesmas pushing maga~ ‘iziae subscriptions, Inclan asks him if “they will go to jail for not signing. Rémule says, “No, you won't go to jail for that, and I don’t care what you do. Bly orders were to hand you thik ci- tacién, and that I have ‘done. The rest. is entirely.up ta you” Inclin decides to accept the summons but not to sign it, based on Rémule‘’s assertion that it ‘rémains in. féree no matté¢ what. Branch and Rothebild go along after a brief huddle. Romulo fs definitely peeved. Ha hands. each of them a summons in an envelope and tells them ta leave. “[ don’t understand how they picked us out,” says Inclan ia the cab. “Es pecially you, John. You're not even coming as B reporter, They coulin’t “have gotten us of eur cocuments. " The is . ong on the plane tipped off the Vere . do anything—just to call him when ha | | : somebody who speaks English here?”’. ing pens into the reporters’ hards lhe - side, frantically pushing buttons to get -one of these bombings * o: = .ogical explanation fa that same guelans. Bat why? Branch thrushes areund im his spy world for answers, Nething seems te fit, The theee af then theorize all the way ts the hotel, and they can only actle, Hke Alexander Haig, on a ainis- ter force, Eranch is still sure that the summens wil be Ified as soon.as he can talk te his friendly contacts In Venezuela, Rothchild keeps looking out the wimlow for a tail, A Visit to a Small Hotel . The taxi drops them of ut the Anauco Hilton, where Inclin is staying. Branch offers to carry Inclan's bags. The lobby, amazingly, is filled with the same DISIP lu.kers; they have managed to move their whote scene intact. They xre leaning ayainst walls and sitting on the couches, Branch lovks fowand the elevator in time to see the Miami . attorneys, and cops scurrying to get in- the door to close. They are as jittery | about seeing the reporters as the re- porters are about seeing the Venezue- - lan goons. And the most jittery of ‘all, in the raiddle of the elevator, Is Ricars do Morales himself. Morales is staring -ut the ceiliny, trying to aveid eye con- ’. tact, and Branch has the feeling that . } Morales is seared, 1t is the first time he hes seen fear on the face of this hardened veteran of Congo wars and Castro plots and murders, Seeing Morales scared makes Branch seared, He warns Inclaa not to vo anywhere or arrives at his hotel, the Avila, Back in a taxd Branch is going through another run of Cuban polities. “F don’t know, John,” he says. “Maybe Morales is behind all this, but I can't - figure out why he's doing it, He sure looked as if he’s in trouble. He could have been making some secret deal with those copa. Something he knows about , oO - in Miami. Morales might not hnow that we were on the Might by accident. He. might : - think we were tailing the cops.” :° Rothchild is trying not to listen. The ‘only sure contact he thought Branch had has suddenly turned into a poten- fial enemy, Rothehild is petrified by the thought that Branch has gotten in . oo “over his head. “I think we are in more trouble,” he saya. “Look behind you.” This time there isa tail. The other ear is right on their buriper as they wind up the back streets of Caracas. “They aren’t even pretending not to be . following,” RFothchild says. “2 don’t . ‘ . think that’s 2 good sign.” . writer, Branch, overwhelmed, keeps looking at the car behind them. “You know,” he says with = smile, “this is the first time E've ever been tailed.” Rothchild | feels a if he is being cranked through | the roller of Graham Greene's typeo . " They reach the Hote? Avila, a Casa} blanca-type place at the top of a hill. i It ceerns deserted uatl Rothehild looks- down from-a balcony near theit room, - There are propia pulling inte the drives : way ia grail are end they have i
aikletalaivs and revolver balgee af the waits of thele plain dark suits, They atation themselves around the hotel entrance and oven an the flower bela. They have the place surrounded. There have been no-phone calls—or aS fenst that {a the worl feom the deck, Branch paces nervously arvund the room, Ue thinks that sumething he al- meady hauws about CLA. Cubans and terrorisra must bo the key tu what's hoppening, but he doesn't kaow what it is, He teis everything he knows: to Rothchild, going ell the way back * theough Prie and the preCastro stu- . deat * Branch haa lost his mind. [t is fear, he te Thien acall movement,  Kothchild thinks @rures. Branch realises that Rothchild ts lying down on the bed pretending not to be awshe, that he bas fallen inta a ; stupor. It is fear, Branch figures, | Leo comes through, but it is not "the contact Branch awaits. it'ts Taclan, ‘who has been denial a room at the Hil- toa (even though she had a reserva. . tien) and-she can't reach anybody at j the U.S. Embassy, She wonders what * the Rell is going -on. Branch tells her " the situation at the Avila, but she de ~ cides to come over; there. ate. lots of “rooms and at least-the reporters can show some solidarity. > It takes a long time, too lony, for Inchin to show up. Branch wanders downstairs; Rothchild waits by the “phone for calls that never come. There is &n uproar at the desk. The clerk ia telling lnclin there are no rods avsil- - able even though the bank of keys is behind him in full view. He holds chat position for about five minutes, then-- retreats to “there is some problem with you people. [ean't give you a roum.” Ne seems scared, Everybody. seems. a seared. Denying « woman a roora at three am. in Venezuela is a serious : violstion of the chivalrié code. The - _other by now, Rem in the Ishby af all tlines. Inchin ecides ghe will sleep on aceuch in the Inobby, and ashe wonders Hf she should put on hee nightzown fos the poone, Sho sets ber bags beside one couch, and the beHhap diretts her over to ao Rothe s One wie & Keacious Mourish: «& could have been opening tne door to the wedding suite. After vacnly scouring the lubby for pay phones, the repurters uxree that they have to make a more for the foont so they can talk near a phone, The three make their way up the stairs like Cary Grant tiptucing between bed. rooms. To their relief, no one situps Inclan, Brinch offers Inclin hia bed, saying he will sleep on the floor. Rothchild doesn’t say anything, but Lis paranoia tells him it is foolish to give the Vena guelans a chance to arrest them under the pretext of immoral conduct. Koth- ehild keeps opening the door because of his paranoia; Branch keeps closing it because of his. He doesn’t want to be listened in on, Branch and Rothchild are not communicating much with each Each is worried that whatever he says the other sill think it is crazy. Inchin tries to phone her editor {n Miami, but it becomes clear after about “an hour of excuses that the deak clerk isn’t going to put through her call, Local lines still seem to-be availsble, but whom to call? Branch has his list of connectioas, but these people are in their own ‘delicate situations and Branch doesn't want to blow their cov- ers by calling at four a.m. on what is ‘certainly a tapped line. Inclin can't gee an answer nt ‘the U.S. Embassy. Roth: child has nobody to call, and that is one ‘of his problems. Since he is so uri- connected with the story, he is sure that the police will figdra he is the ~ heavy—a deep-cover C.LA. man out of ‘three reporters talk. about it, but they - retirement from the Everplades, can’t sit down or move around without ~ being followed, almost mimicked, by. By elimination, the reporters ean - think of only one person in Venesuela s. {OOPS There are now at least six” af . . that they could Sontact, Inclin’ has oe ehild, fig Ai wa) Hfeton, what Roor Ricanlo Morales is etaying oa om) she thinks aha knows what his room number fs, Her plan is ts call him disectly, It is clearly a decpersatieon more. Inclan tings up Morales atthe Anauce Hilton, apolugives for the hour and he ins te explain her previcament, bub if is clear things are net going well, Morales ap- parently is denying that he is Morates, "You arent Rica.do Murales?” Inclan asks incredulously. “You know me and f know you. 1 talked te your nephew in Miami yesterday. His family is fine and he sends his warmest rovards,”* There is a pause ard Incian begins to seund like w panelist on b¥Aat's Vy Line?, “You've never heard of a Mo- tales? Whe are you then? Your vwoice founds familiar, You'se not a Venezuee lan, You sound Cubsa, Are you a Cuban?” Morales aays he is tired of being Interrupted in his-sleep; he hanga lip the phone. An air of resignation has’ settled — over the room. It is almost morning ~ and the goons are still stand.ag by the bushes. The reporters are under soms . Kind of house ocrest- and they feel — caged, ‘Chey wonder why Morales has ‘. ‘just denied beirg himself. Maybe all this is Happening because they know who he Is and Morales fears they will ruin his cover identity, Or maybe Morale doesn't want Branch to reveal - his Background ts anybody in Venew auela, The reporters kick this notion around, but i¢ doesn’t 6%. [2 seems pre- posterous thot the Venezuelana don’t - know about Bforales’ previous lives, which are talked about all the time in the Mia:ni rumor mill. , Beanch paces. around the room, try- ing-to make. his mind catch up vith his _ fears, He even asks. Iniclan- whether ste is guarding aome secret’ that might . have caused the trouble. Ineclan says‘no and politely doesn’t return the question, -. The reporters already trust each other “instinctively, but the spy world threat " ens to swallow them up, too, They de. * - cide there is nothing to do exeept try -~ anything” te réach the outside world in * the morning before getting shuttled of f ~ te the DISIP. ‘~ Inclin goes off to-the lobby tor some: eep of her couch. Braneh tells Roth. ; ld the rumor about the rafproche- ‘went between Morales and Bosch, say” ing he'd even heard Bosch had been *} ” staying’ in ‘Morales’ apartrsent. But it - doesn’t make any-sense. Nothing does. Branch babbles on until ke finally rans “out of nervous energy. “Well, Johan,” the bed, “f was right about one thing. “end.” “Jt ‘ia five-thirty am. and somebody i * pounding on the door. Zothehild, a light door just a crack, and thea-tha door fs - thrown back so hard it bangs against ¢ the wall Hke a guashet, A man in a - green anit with a long walkietatkio~ hanging from his belt bursts past Roth- - __ browing on all _ the Rights eye Mee cee ee re oS eet OR d eut, from her visit t+ the - - he gays, smiling thinly as be sinks onto >: sleeper, Jumps out of bed. He opens the - - continued I told you it woulda’e be a boring week -s
' 2 wees seme car “Pack? he sels In hall a second be fs ali the way merors the room, “Pack! ° Branch its op etraight in bel amd fs Che most plaintive voice Rothchild has ever heard him use, a miature of recug- nition, terror, disappointment, conlue sion and pleading, says Just one word: “iearde?” ie fe Morales all ‘sight, Hranch watches him enatch back the curtains to chee’ the balcony, then duct around the chairs. ‘Pack! There is a rhythm to his order. He is maving Uhe a cat, frenzied but in total contecl, Rothchild feela the eneryy coming off um in waves. He shps into the bathroom to piss just to get away from Morales, but he is so scared that nothing comes, More orders come cut in staccato bursts—“Get those bays closed! Give me your passports! Give me your air- line tickets!" Branch ard Rothchild are convinced that he wants to destroy the documents befors ‘he kills them. Morales leaves the room within -twe minutes, but his performance leaves so much afterlife that Rothchild and -Branch don’t do anything ence he has left, They don’t call anybody, they don't -snesk off the balcony, they don’t even say a word to each other. wenn e at Ofte, Qt the pupulated areas and into those sits where executions amd acwilents take place, Branch is desperately trye ing te make contact with Murales. Ho mentions zene people from Miami tat he and Morales had once staked ta lo wether, Hat every tine Branch drops a fame, Morales turns the volume up on the radi. He leaves if that way, War. ing, watll the questioner pives up ail sits bach in his seat. But desperation ¢reates another question, ancther try, which ends in another mambe bast Branch gives up on the name-diopping and even tries some spyeworld sulle production, “Rip would not hie what you are doing to as," he says, “Kip would be ashamed.” Kip Robertson wag Morsies’ gun-toting ease officer in the Congy operations, Rothchild thinks Branch is foulish to bring up the Congo and remind Morales how tittle he cares for human Ife. Morales says nothing, He just, gives the radio knob another _ Indian fs taking the: personal route again, talking ‘about this nephew she has ‘seen, mentioning other relatives of Morales who live in Miami. Morales risn't answering her, either. He is get- - ting tired. of the radio, Now he just te ow a Cara find go. what it in Nobude, after all, hnowa neere the reporters are, and the only thing on their side, besiies some veatieral compassion that might reahle ‘gomewhere even in goons, is the vense that world opinion would be on Mo- gates’ Lack Uf they did web tortured or Billed, Hut that’s jest the pmat~world opinion was on the terrurists’ backs about the Cuban airline crash and nbuvt Letslier and Motmhet, They killed them anyway, They didn’t give a damn. The car pitls up at the airport, It is Jess than eicht hours since the reporte era entered the country, and they have talked to nobody cacept Morales, the goons and each other, Their best guess to heep it that bs Tt. is that Moralws plana eo owe eo, TGS Breakfast al Kicarde’s |” Q an _ Morales marches the greup through part of the airport lobby and then up some’ back stairs, past the méteorology room and inte the tower section. They arrive at a locked, knobless door with a small pass-through window, and Morales has to knock béfore it is opened from the inside. They have arrived at the goon contrel center. : 5 vty 27s Both of them jump olf the floor when ~ leans_his head over against the door to phere is a four-drawer cabinet where the phone rings, then look dumbly at each other, Branch picks up the re ceiver, grunts, and puts it down, “AIL the guy said was, ‘He is waitiny,’” he -. fells Rothchild. Branch’s own voice sounds far off to him. - Inclan has had~rough going dewn- - stairs, maybe rougher than the other two Because she is alone and also be- cause shé is not yet a. U.S. citizen. , Morales wahes her. up with the same ‘ staccato commands, She thinks maybe ; he is going to take her away and have i her deported back to Havana. She is so scared that she locks herself in the ‘ bathroom and doesn’t. come out until she hears the other two reponters stum- ‘bling downstairs with their bags, - Blorales tewists the knife with a little humiliation. “Pay your bill!” he yells. Branch doesn’t think he should have to pay for the hospitality he has received, _ but he pulls out"hig wallet without a. Second’s _ fiesitation. “Pick up your bags! Let's got? The reporters’ are” hustled out of the lobby, past a squad- ron of sunglasses. Morales is: already ‘ghead of them, barking orders onhis _ walkie-talkie. It is still dark. ’ The reporters are put into the back of a car. Morales and a driver are up front, Nobedy Is talking much. Branch "ig wearing hisbest suit, which he does not remember putting on during Bio. rales’ brutal prodding. Now ho thinks maybe something deep in his uncon. -aclous had ordered him to-look his best. Rothchild is terrified that they are traveling Ina private caf instead of _ an official police car. His fear of being ‘officially detained is rapidiy. being re- placed by a fear of being unofficially jbumped off. He keeps looking back at the car full of goons that is following tlosa behind as they careen down the muuntain at ene hundred twenty ki- lumeters an boue. oan pot te lee or The car ls heading out of town now, | - i a on a toe get some steep:-Watching Morales-nod, the fury turned off- like a light, Branch’s mind is filled with memories- of Miami Cubans telling stories of legendary agents who would drop off te sleep just before landing in Cuba on a CLA. commando raid. He never quite “believed the stories, but he thinks Morales’ nap is very effective theater, Rothchild ia elso watching the nap. Every time Morales neds, Rethchild thinks he is ducking so that the bullets from the cav behind won't hit him. Rothchild ducks, too. i ‘ After about twenty minutes of driv- ing, the road flattens out and the re- porters can see the airperct in the dis- tance. Morales mentioned “nirport” “the DISIP ‘police file their guns and - bullet clips like memos. There is an “@id-couch,-a. few desks, and in an ad- joining room some bunk: beds. All the people from the night shift are still there, includiny: Romulo, in the same- turtleneck and the same Jeather jacket, ‘fhe most impressive new lurker is a character they call “El Largo,” or “The Long One.” - - It is clear now that the plan is not torture, it is deportation, but the re porters sense that the plan could easily be changed. Morales is stalking be- tween rooms, giving ‘orders and mah- ing éalls, and when he looks at the re- porters he seethes with anger, Inclin’! and Branch are directing more ques- once back in the hotel lobby, but the) giong at him from the couch, He an-. ‘ reporters were never suré he‘ intended ‘to take them there. If he were just. planning to expel them, it would seem municative, more curious about what - the reporters were doing, moré worried about the kind of story they might write about him. But, Morales asked, nd- questions, Rothchild” knew from Braneh's incessant briefings. that Mo- . rales wore a lot-of hats: terrorist ag’ well as, informant, mercenary as well as cop, bomber as well as representa- . tive of a government, Jt might be more-| ) their. ‘toenails “the next. They follow paranoia to think Ne would kill them, but ‘all [238 night's paranoia-had come true. - so 77 . . The reporters know one thing: they have stumbled onto a story that fs big enough and sensitive eriough that top people in the Venezuelan DISIP.; ‘are interrupting theif sleep and risk Ing diplomatic ‘reprisals ti scare the hell out. of them. It isn’t routing in, _ Venezuela, une of the few South Ameri- ‘can countries lef? with any sense of | freedom of the press. There is ‘some. thing big going on, and the repotters don’t know, a3 they speet through » Wile tee ee te st Fee . ; pers | Morales walks out with a wide that he could afford to be more com-- nen ree H : swers oniy with contemptuous looks. -- - No one is prepared for what happens grin on his face. He clasps hia hands- tovether like a waiter and cheerfully addresses the reporters: “Is anybody ‘hungry? Are yous ready for some break- | _ ‘The reporters follow Morales dumbly | down the maze of corridors. They de cide there is something oriental about recent developments, and they are con- ¢ i vineed Morales could show them. great courtesy one moment and yank ont i Morales down the corridors until they ‘come to a small dining rvuom that ap- pears to be reserved for airport per- | sonnel, Branch gives fleeting thouyht | i ta the idea of making a scene, but: he decides Morales would not ‘have, | brought them here untess he controlled -; ! the ares, Besides, Branch realizes, he : does not have the courage to make a! t geene in front of Mernies, who still has | ; the reporters nearly paralyzed , with : freght . ‘ i- Morales lays his big walkie-talkie i down on the table and snaps for ay ? ” whether they will ever get to
a ed Been a waiter, “Ww, Te will you havet” he asks __ Rt agignu-f¥ sea reporters had fguret break fast was probably a ruse, 80 they think abvut foud for the frst lime, It is o struygle. HRothchiid’s stomach fs filled >with embalniing fluid. He feels quensy looking at the mene, branch ashe only - for coffee and an order of toast, Hoth» ehild follows suit, Morales Jouks disap pointed and urges them to eat more. heartily fuclin orders eygs and Mo rales looks pleased. He orders a sump- tuous breakfast | for himself, It arrives promptly. - ace “Well,” he asks grandly, “who do you think will win your election,. Carter or Ford!” 7 The reporters “exchange the louk, familiar by now, that signals their “agreement that-absurdity has reached new heights, They mumble effhand an-° . Swers as Morales listens intently. “You don’l really have much choice,” ---de-yout he asks, “I mean, you have twv guys who don’t have any ideas and ~ don’t have any backbone, right? And neither one of them can command any- ~ a “thing or stop anything, so it doesn’t make any difference, right? At least that’s” what i set from Time muga- zine.” Inclan tries to change the subject, She asks Morales about his position in the DISIP and geta no response. She mentions Morales’ nephew, whom she knows in Mismi, and Morales parries the ° remark, Suddenly 8 cloud cumes RCross his face. “What's the matter with you?” he . demands, “Why aren’t you eating?" He ~ peints down at the dry toast, which Branch and Rothchild have been pick- . ing at like wafilers at Communion, “Aren't vou hungry?” - -- Branch nods yes; Rothchild nods no, * “You teld me you hadn't gotten any breakfast, so I-give you breakfast,” | ., Morales declares angrily, waving his . arms, “If you are not hangry, you are *; liars?! What's the matter With youT®  ~- _ The reporters: are exasperated, “We are afraid and confuséd,”. says. ] + “because nobody will'tell us why this is happening ‘to us. l-am a reporter like all the other reporters down here. I -want to interview Orlando Bosch like Idid onee before...” = . “Never heard of him,’ * interrupts Morales. He gives us an exaggerated shrug and a quizzical look. Inclan shakes her head in despair. .“Oh, conre or, You testified against him eight years ago in Miami andl now he's the mest famous prisorier in Latin America, He's in your jail.” “Did. he make Time maguzine?” asks Morales, “Yes,” says Dranch. “t guess I missed it,” anys Morales, . He pauses, then turns to Inchin. “You should net be running around asking so many questions,” he says sternly. “You ate a woman, Women should be ot 1 home having babieo and making their men happy. Nothing else. fInclan is rutiled, “[ can work as well a4 mast other reporters,” she says. Morales shahes his head vigorously, “No you can’t, You are a hundred miles ; ° + ad aw ¢ from reality." He looks off and ga i again, vs dont think: 10," think pou are.” “No,” says sforales. “You are a hun- dred milee from reality, and I om a hundred years from reality, You under- stand the difference?™- “Et don’t hnow what I understand,” saya Inclan, “Ef know something about you. Taylor says he tathed to yuu about your background in Miami and you tulked to him like a friend. He eays you were nice ond naw you are... “ft am nef nice,” snaps saya Incldn, “4 when IT was a hid? T sent anonymous death wreaths to my friends, All the time. Is that nice?” Branch does not like ‘this subject. ¢ or the faintly homicidal look he sees be- fore him. He decides to make another - stab at levity. “Look, Ricardo,” he says, “I'm upset that ;ou and your men have kept me from seeing anything about the last-game of the Warld Series last night.” -- “The World Series; ” he says, ‘his eyes opening wide, “Let me tell you about the World Series. 1€ is just hke the “ world everywhere: the Reds are win- ~ing and the Yanks are losing!” Mo- rales breaks into laughter. Something snaps in the reporters and they laugh, too, uncontrollably. Fear floats out of their mouths and they feel better, Branch wades in to reestablish cone tact. “Leok, Ricardo,” he Says gamely, “ft can’t help thinking this is some kind of mistake. I want to be straight with ‘ you. All i'm interested in is the mur- : der of Orlandy Letelier. That’s what a came down here for, and I want...’ “He's the guy who got blown up in Washington, right?” Morales breaks in. ; “{ think [saw that in Time.” -““That’s right. He was blown up right around the corer from my apart. ment” on ooo e a, Storates. “You know what I used to du in Cuba — “Welt what. are yeu doing in Veno- guela i was killed in W sshington £ Merales cenunds. *Hecause I think the people whe conspired to hill hint are here, That's what my sources 62y, and it hag even bern in spome of the Venezuelan NewWse papers.” Morates louhs disgusted, “You shouldn't read the newspapers,” he says - tightly. “They He. And you should in- vestigate that murder in Washington instead of coming halfivay_ around the- world.” Branch tries another “tack, “y don't. understand what's behind this, Ricardo. ” You nren‘t like you were the last time’ cl I saw you, in 1974. Don’t you remem = ber? It was at night in Miami Beach, and you brought your girl friend over to the house I was staying in. And Fotingo Silva wus there, And Tamaya . was there. We talked almost all night © | i i about the Congo. Why have you changed? Is there something . . .” _ Branch stops because of what he sees “on Morales’ face. see - “You are lying!” he explodes, “1 have ‘never heard of Ricardo Morales! This is the first time I have ever met you, and it is the first time you have met mel Understand? 1 have never seen you before in my life! 1f you say dif- - ferent you are lying! And, bad things happen to Hars!” inclin comes to Branch’s rescue. “Ef have seen your picture,” she says, “and I'm sure whe you are. 1f you're not Morales, then what is your name?” “ft don’t answer personal quections,” Morales says, smiling, trying to look . shy. “I think maybe you eure there's a | " Nittle spy conspiracy here,” Branch ob- ‘| -oRervesy stabbing ‘Inv the dark. “But there , isn’t, John and 1 are old friends, but we just met Hilda yesterday. She is | interested in Bosch and his friends be- eause of the bombings in Miami and “the Cuban plane. We are interested in them because of Letelier. The three of us just happened to cone, down. where - on the same plane,”* . : “Oh, really? 2° says Morales dubious. _ iy. “T guess you are good friends now.” “I guess we “ve gone through some- thing together,” says Rothchild. - “Now you have something in com- mon,” he nods, “feigning tenderness, “Let’s see, what else is thére? Have you all been married?” The reporters nod. “How about divorced?” The re- porters nod again. “Once?” They nod again. Morales holds up three fingers. “I have been divorced’ three times,” he says, “after four kids. I haven't’ seen | them in seven years.” This hangs in the air. “Do you miss them?” asks Incldn. “Not the children,” Morales says -softly, “Just the wives sometimes, I . don’t misa much. You know I haven’t slept in two years.” The reporters give each other signifiennt looks, hke shrinks attending a primal-therapy session, “tf you are going to kick us out of the country, yeu should at least let ua call our families,” Inclan says. “My editors are going to be worried. We ; mii .
( * deadpans,. . have appeintments’ and these people. don't huve any idea where we are. Why can't you tet us make at feast one phone enll?”* oa te bee Me ry ad Morales has shed his melancholy and slipped into a new persona, fe is evaver. “You're right,” he says. “PH call . them. Anyoaly you want, Tell me who your appvintments are with.” He pulls outa penin is startled by low fast Morales moves and how fiercely he snaps the point down, < The reporters glance knowingly at - each other, They share a vision of Morales hauling their contacts down to 2 DISiP's welcom 2 wagon, Wer re not that . dumb, they think, on Inclan tells Morates to call her editor ‘. at The Miami News, a safe, serious . call, Mor.«es speils out the name letter _ by ‘letter .as he writes on his napkin - - lke a schoolboy taking dewn his home-'> when you: put us on the plane=” Tne - * work.; He is putting on a snow. He ~ Jooks at Branch. . “ . “Tell Orlando Bosch ‘it, doesn't look’. Branch says. “He's i in the DISIP Pris- 4 on: nett ' The. reporters giggle, ‘bu Morales “T-@-F- ~O-r-}- B-it-d-o Beo-wwehi 9: . - “You've spelled Bosch wrong, ? says Inclan, “It's Beo-gee-h.” ° . “Um sorry,” says Morales, - Morales keeps writing. “You are a . funny one," he says jovially. He looks up. “Anybody else?” —- “Yes,” says Branch,. He has been : trying to think of one of his contacts in Venezuelan who would’ not be vul- nerable to Morales but whose clout might impress him, Any name is a risk, but he decides to take one. , “Tell the “governor of Caracas that I won't be . able to see him. His name is Diego Arias, Do you know him?" - “7 Branch studies Morales for, a reac .. + ing room: It has a big waiting area - "tion, but there is sone. + After breakfast, as the procession goes by a’ pay phone, Inclan suddenly gn- -.nounces, “I'd like te make one call to the American Embassy.” She breaks ” atep and marches toward it, the first - - sign of overt resistance. Morales freezes Branch and Rothchild with a. -malicious glance and walks. with her, shaking his head. Suppert goons appeat from around corners, They seem re- "Jared. Morales fingers his walkie-talkie. * Thelan xets to the phone and starts fumbling for Venezuelan change and her phone numbers, Morales leans up *. against the wall near the phone. He (: . looks amused. His body seems to twitch a Httle under his suit, as if he might need some exercise, : Branch and Rothehild keep ‘telling " themselves that Inclan is making a futile gesture, but they admire her. “*“She’s got more guts than we do,” _ whispers Rothchild.” Branch and Rothchild watch her lift the phone from the cradle, but they don’t think she has the change or the -number, She is nervous, She looks Morales in the face, which Is probably i @ nisteke. He stares at her, shakes his - head, and haags up the phone gently. - » Hash, Branch blinks, He- aye, “as if Tl be abla te make it this trip,” . tom pe + , tte we -~ Aa hour Iater, Merales suddenly meobsizes his entire office, Same ef his men rab the reporters’ suitcases and -> vanish, Others tahe of for unknown dextinations, The rest fall in around the remertera and Vorates beads them briskly out the door. . Rothchild figures they have just enough time to make the ten am. fight to Miami thet he had seen posted on a board some time earlier, He reuses an end coming and feels some relief, But when the entourage emerpes on the aire port's main econcuurse, Morales turns toward the exit inte Caracas, not toward the planes. tote -“f thought you were putting us on the plane,” says Braach. w here are we going?” a et sem “To the other. airport, id says Me. rales, His mind is éleewhere, ~ “What happens if we make a fuss lin asks, “What then?” - Sas tenet oe Morales’ face is tant but breaks into # tour-guide smile. “You will either “leave Venezuela. nice and - happy,- or...” He pauses, “Or you will leave nice anJd happy.” He delivers the last line with a lilt, as if making a rhyme, he reporters absorb the | menacing smile and fall silent, -- Several ‘cars screech up to the curb, * Once loaded, they. take off at the usual torrid pace. Branch feels panie open- ing trapdoors under his lungs and he Jeans over to Rothchild. “Holy shit, John,” he whispers. “I don’t think thers és another airport in Caracas.” After racing a quarter mile down the road, the cars turn abruptly inte a parking lot. The reporters are baftied ‘by the rush and the short trip but re “Heved to be stayiée near the airport, “They figure they are headed for a plane from a different direction, but Morales leads them ‘through another maze of corridors and inte a new hold- with, two rooms partitioned off on the side. The doors are metal with no - handles. They leck from both sides. - Morales vanishes, leaving Rimulo" and El Largo ia charge. Rémulo’s fingertips do push-ups on his desk - while he looks on, sténe-faced. Rothe - child gets the impression that Romulo lekes to stare at’ blank walls more than ~ at people. El Largo, who seems to be a notch abuve Rémulo in the pecking order, moves into one of the partitioned: . offices and stays almost. continuoisly on the phone. He reminds the reporters of his presence from time to time by loudly sucking phlegm up his long spiny nose, After about ten minutes, Branch atarts pacing away from Rémulo “Gouddamn it,” Branch spurts, “i don't think we know enough about Morales to make him do all this. He’s going to a lot of trouble to seal us off from Venezuela, but i¢ doesn't make sense that he would go it just beeause we know who he is.” . “Why'not?” asks Inelin. . “Because,” Bays Rothehild, syehat, we already Know is going ta come out anye wav if he kicks us out cf the country.” “3 think maybe Norales is more cy . nrarete. weeded atout what we m! ight find out Mowe ever pet out of his clutches,” aaya Eranch, “A think maybe it's the fact that ‘this terrorise: is organised internationally, Hosch moves around on illegal passports and has fancy fund- raising dinners with suppasecity res pect- able people in lots of countries, He’s supported by at least part af a lot of goveraments, And this stuf hs cross national—Cubsns killing “Chileans and so forth. Now look at how Venezuela fits in. It's kind of an entrepét for ev- erybody on all sides. The povrernment is in a real pickle. It has to get along with the military juntas that have tak- en over most of Latin America, and it ziso has to ect along with Castro. This" country is filled with left-wing Chilean exiles and right-wing Cubana - eoles, Letelier is buried here, which is a tilt to the left, but the people who helped conspire to kill him might well be right ~ ‘‘{n the DISIP, which is full af Cubans ‘like Morales. President Pérer [Carlos Andrés, of Veneruela] has got his own- little Watergate here, because his own - government is tangled up with both the terrorists and the ‘anti-terrorists. ” ’ This whole country is ike a tinderbox, The rovernment is making little ges.‘ tures to both sides, trying: to keep the lid on, *- . *Okay,” Branch continues, “Let’s” assume that Morales is not bootlegging us out of the country on his own. That seems stupid to me. Let’s assume that at least the people in the interior ministry kiow what's poing on, And Jet’s assume they’re afraid we'll get -into the country and find g story that goes something like INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATION HEADQUAR- TERED IN VENEZUE.QA, OPERATIVES MOST- LY CUBAN, EXILES WITd CLA AND FRE TIES, VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT PLAYING BOTH -SIDES, And we go on to say that Basch has brought a let .of Latin ‘governments around to his position, which is that it’s better to trust each other. than to trust . the CLA. Now, what I'm saying is that a story like that would realty serew up ’ the Venezuclaas, especially if it’s fleshed - oul, It's the last thing the government — here needs right now.” “So what side 1s Morales ‘ont* asks Rothehild. . “] think, he's on both “ites” says. Inclan. -" “I think 50; 00," says Branch, “just like ‘the ‘government. Morales is in the underworld of both sides.” Inclan thinks for a moment, “There's only, one big. problem,” she says. “If they’ re so. afraid of a story, ike that, why de they let other reporters stay ‘and just throw us out? Why do they pick on us?” . “7 don’t know,” Branch sighs. “i don’t know much about the correspon- dents here, They're getting some’ atulf out, but my impression is that they cover nine countries and just fy in for the coups and earthquakes. That still doesn't make us so special. But maybe we are to Morales. We know him, He knows Hilda knows a lot about Bosch and Miami connections. He knows that ] pot pretty deeple into the CLA. Cubans, Then he sees us with the Prove i) iv cantinved ote - { i d 4 i ‘ oo L {s 3 rn’ on
14-00000 eutors, That may have been too much for him to take chances with us. I don't know. Maybe he thinks we're: CLA” . ue, Swords oa the Runway El Largo_picks up the three: passports Of Reomsle’s deaak and peints them fowanl the loched dove hie a hatén, “Vamos,” is all he saya.” ; . The metal door is unlocked by El . ‘ Largo, ax! onte again the DISIP cor- tee appeass from nowhere. They es- cort the reporters down anothér stair- case and cut toward an immigration > stallina large rovm that is cornpletely. isdlated.-It is a busy part-of the day at -@ major airport, but the DISIP keeps _ firiding these empty halls and’ empty ~_, Fooms te stick the reporters in, Something about approaching thie “immigration stall, which is not: ‘attend- : ‘it aad get on an’ airplane and fot and ve 7 ‘> Letelier’s murderer starts to galvanize. ca through and: El Largo ‘is motioning . w them: to walk on, but Branch is having: . these visions of ‘the’ ‘bombed ‘car outside ~ his, apartment and he. is getting mad. ” Fhe macderrhe gets, the .slower he “walks. “We can’t just get. on this ~" plane,” ke says to Kothchild, “We have - a oa . ‘to af least'do something.” He and Roth- mlneg -- ebild, and.then Inclan. behind ‘them, zo- *, Inte a-stall—net a complete stop, bit they are slowing it way down, Moraies _ might hare clamped dewn on this little . insurrection in a second, but El Lurgo. - seems. mérely” agitated, He is getting in and Branch huddle with Inclan. They + kb the plan ord agree, Then all t. ¢ abanion their shultte, ty the sire prise of the herders, who have been pushing all alung. Suddeaty they see ‘gheir quarry running of in front of them, Et Largo doesn’t catch on right away, but he knows that ahatever the reporters want to do, it must be th wrong thing. Sovhe starts running after them, yelling, “Stop! Branch and Rothchild h:t the double glass door with Inclan and Fl Large and the asmy just behind. They all pour out onto the run- way to. the curious looky-of hundreds who are lined upto eet on the plane. For the first. time since they landed. in Veneruela, Inclén is visibly upset.- She Fushes out to the line of passen< gera, screaming: fin Spanish and English that she is a Woman reporter whose dignity kas been trampled on by the ed, and knowing "he. will pass ‘through: setret-pdlice, The police,” who are mass do you know what they will do to you Mich’ 2 ; - ing behind’her in greater iumbers than ever before, don't know quite chow te oe . “ . Branch, There is a tiny: Passage to go~ deal with. thi: The passengers : > don't hei ‘Camargo ‘doesn't . . that. sounds, Hi “séraps the pla; and - know whether to accept her as a: lunetie - traveler whom they don't want with: them on the plane; or. to bélieve, what_ she is saying, which would be unpleas- ant, Most of them pretend that nothing-- is, happening. and go on up the ramp. | ‘Branch, ‘nieanwhile, has planted hini- aclf on the stairs that lead to the front cabin of the plane. -He js sitting down and his hands are clenched to the rails like a Quaher chained to ‘the White .House fence, Rothchild is sitting on the steps just below Branch, “and” they are. the mitWe of the acene, louking tike ths - frast A darectur of arunawnay curt. . There .ce new dusens ef DISIP men | ° . in plain elothes,-a few representatives ;  f from about four different military de- tachments, frantic jeep drivers, airline authotities,. pilots and cround-crew pees sonnel, all crowding around to watch or take part in the action. Camaigeo looks shy ward, thinking under preasure, and pets his idea. “Why don’t you Tet me go with these people?” he nak the pilot, “If 1 take them to Miami, { guar- antee there won’t be any funny stuff on your. plane.” Rothchill thinks this ts a titUe-ironic, The reporters come down | to investigate one plane, bumbing and - retuirri undér guard: “that, thay can’t . pull one-off theniselves, °  .- - The pitot dovan’t think too much of Cawiargo’s idea. “Do vou have a U.S. visa?” he asks Camargo, “No.” “Then, ? t ‘whea you get! to Miami? the captain returns to the plane. Thé reporters aren’t sure of. what ~ . they have just done: They ‘have. scored . oe mo, a theatrical ‘victory—just- 166k ‘around “Po “7 at all these cars and soldiers and dis- tressed officisls-—but they don’t like the prospect uf lunch with Ricardo Morales, Nobédy seems te be running te eall the American Embassy or ‘any other ont- side help, so the Plan is a qualified’  failare. . The three of thera head. -back to the: sere eet - front of the reporters, pleading and " forceménts; the sword’. company. “Tlie * begging, pulling with his arms eas if men in brown uniferms have circled ae ey oe — ; loadizig, and start writing phone auri- bers on little scraps of “‘papér—the THAT bers, are of, editors in Miami, friends, | ‘ they are all ‘connected by an invisible. * rope, : 0 a In: -complete exasperation, | ‘he starts ae Sputtetine threats. “If you don’t move “through here, L ah going to use tha ‘forest Two: ‘guards go running down -to.the end ef the room, apparently to go find the forte, which turns out to: be - webs a four young sctdiers in green fatignes . . . nd paratreoper béota. res : _ With the army, behind - ‘them, the fe--. plus..the DISIP- peoplé surround the - strageler, “prodding ‘hitn, along, . while one af the! other two breaks : Away to ‘tha - ime. Spot, the strnggler.. just’ vacated: Out ofa pictaze window the report "|. @Fa Cam See the plane being. gassed up. -. 2 Ht is VIASA, the Venezuelan airline, *, anid “hot Pan Am, Taclan, finally ‘ex- pressing some paranoia herself, says, ; ° “Well they could blow us up -oa the - - < plane, but they wouldn't sacrifice -s ~ Venezuelan plane. They don’t. have that’ im cmany of ther". - e They have been, dragging on this , ~ isis for almost farty minutes how, and - - gerdus, then why should they be flying pectant father,” but Rothchild needs no - . .ehcolragement. He instantly calls for ~ they cam see the busloads of -tourists | being flushed back cut from théi¢ vaca- _ tions, The buses are stopping at the - back stairway of the plane. Then Branch gets his idea, “In here whére -- Chere is nobody to see us we can't do much,” he tells Rothchild. “But out “there, i in front of all those tourists, we - ean get some Relp. Let's 50." Rothchild oe he Tote wee, emmateeneney, Seeman - og. a - inches out of their long. seabbards ready” : and them, and they pull the sword’ a few “‘passenges. The te ‘hog-stick Rothchild ‘nd “Branch into- them. at to board! the - ‘airplane, ‘Behind them officials and © police seem to be pouring out of the: doors ‘and official jeeps are screeching up ‘and screeching, off, and Romulo has “even Showed tip agaid. . : The captain of- the airplane, a Vene- zuelan, comes down the same tamp on. which Branch and Rothchild. have been ‘nhead-a few fest andone hangs ‘back. : on his facé. Verieiueta hie énchigh trou. ”--devélops -into a. én thé me re é re * potes in “aad ‘notes out, the DISIP ble developing tourism and: here, is his plane being héld up and. his -passen- .- - gérs’ last memory of Veneziela will- be. these goons ‘with sword * prodding” Ahiericins bp ‘the ramp. “He _ steps over Branch and goes- tight. down . to the huddfe of seeret police, where the “eurrent brains of the operation, Rémiule - “and El Largo, are ‘standing: .The cap- tain proceeds te chew them out,. tell them-that they'are idiots to pull a show like. this. and that. he’ will not take: as- sengers on his cairplané if they are™ Idaded by. force: The seciizity risk, -for ‘ ohe thing. ats ‘these, people kre that dan: . a‘yne on his airplane? greet ete ew El Largo and Rémulo don't quite ‘know how to‘handie this sidden obsta-* cle. They get a fet’s-talk-this-one-over- baddy leox on their faces and fo inte a huddle with the captain. They also de fer to even higher authority, a beefy - eop named Camargo, who is wearing a _Shortsleevs shirt. Cantargo a arrives sin serial! I. air of having done their. civic duty. fee nd blackjacks. ws réporters are received in this effort tike ‘Salvation ‘Army collectors at the race- track. Only a few of the passengers ace tually take the notes, but just te make - gure, the DISIP people are picking them off at the higher end of ‘the line. - Some passengers even go out ‘of their way to hand over ‘the notes, with an ~goons collecting just as fast as Inclan, | Branch. Rothehild can scrawl... It is- riéw; with thé plang about’ to | clase its doors, that Branch conies up with another plin: send one, leave two, ' Branch still is hoping he can break the . Morales- Jogjam. and get out into friend. ly territory, where his ‘contacts are - waiting to help him, Inclan speaks the.! » best Spanish and seems the most adept | at handling inspectors and bureaucrats; “They. will stay and ‘Rothchild is chosen’ 1 to leave. Branch reminds-him, in front .of thé sword Brigade, that he is an “exe the captain and explaiis that he-wants | : ‘to get on the plane. The captain hesi- ; tates, then agrees, and Rethehild runs , for the stairs, As he passes Branch and |. Inclin, Branch sticks one page of phone | numbers in, his pocket and, as o di- } versionary tactic, clumsily sticks anoth- | er note in his and, sthis one in full a eee eee wee wet St foro
“ view ot the. cons. As the sword carriers -are frisking Rothehita: the. second note is triumphantly confiscated, They don't know that it says “Joe Morgan" on it. The name éf the great Cincinnatl seco end baseman will co somewhere inte the DISUP Giles. Halfway up athe Famp, Rothehild senses trat the pressure hag somehow ’ been reverse?, that now the DISIP wants to keep him on the ground. Sev--. eral cops are following him as if they want to get ahead and stop him at the door, He: seurries inside the plane and rushes back to a seat; they are still fol-. lowing him, He has. his seat belt buckled ~ almost before his ass /hita the-eushion, and the two cops reach ont | ‘as if te grab "him, - then change- their minda and abruptly leave the slreraft. But they quickly return. They'tell. Rothchild in a very frieidly tone that his -friends - down on the ground. want ‘too have a “word with him and that he better un-. ~ > buckle“and“ come down.. Rothchild is so. He and Agitated “he believes thei. He geta* as: * Jat far, as the plane entrande, the top sf the stairs, when he- hears Bratt ing, “Get back.” He bowls. over a. stew. * ardess on the way to his-zeat, *. The cops ate not. through yet: They . return with another ploy: Rothehild has . . have brought up -a car and they are. ws trying’ te force’ Branch and Inclin te : mot filled out the necessary papers and he must return to an office in the. air. _ port. “Aré you. sure this: isn't: & trick?” Rothehild asks. “No, - no trick. Sust , .& procedural matter.” Rothchild tells - them he-Iun’t moving an inch until he "talks te thé captain, | *, Out his Helle windéw, Rothehild sees” further agitation.” ‘on the runway, They get! into it,. Camargo is flailing his. arms like a-giant windmill, determined to; ‘get all three reporters together—on or off the plane. The -reporters are equally determined, to split up. Branch and -° Jnclan keep telling Camargo that they will’ not*'move from the runway until ‘the plane takes off. They want to stay . in plain view of all the passengers, - L fearing® ‘that the goons will grab Koth- | * @hild once thé other two are safely out-. ' of view? Bratch and Inclén’ keep’ en. '" gouraging each other and making jokes . Ras become. Workmenh in otange suits * about -how ‘ineredible all the commotion sre, erguched i in the ‘shade, smoking eig- ch yell- _ galled back,’ ps te, aay im the runway rand _Camarge aay, -*-Your"ve won, Let's @a." The reporters huddle and say not untl it's off the ground, Camarge -looks furious and barks a command to his walkietalhie man, The plane stops immediately and aits In the sniddla of the airstrip. Ca- marge co..trols the.torer, the reporters conclude. The game, played by inches and bluffs, goes o& for nearly an hour. Camargo Plays Hardball . Branch and Inclda are spread-eagled ayainst the back<loer cpenings of the goon ear, facing each other, when the jet finally takes off. They have held this position for the last fifteen: minutes or so of the cat-and-mouse:game. The roar - of the Jet engines sets off tremors in ‘Branch’ 3 gut, and he is flooded with re lief. He feels tears welling up: 7. 7 Rémiuio-- -ig now wearing -his gua ‘ tieked : inside -his pants 2 at the -navel. ‘His turtleneck As. _gaaked _ with’ sweat. - their" Hind ging’ again,-- ‘ear, decide: ‘that tthe plane ‘will not be’ in the car, Rémilo . sits next to, Branch; ind: Cainarge, takes: - “the front seat. They peel off down the runway with other cars following. - . “How long will it ‘take the plane te get ‘to Miami?”. Inclén asks Camargo. “4 -little more than three: chours,” says “ Camargo- “It ‘has to. SP in Mara- caibo.” - Branch, shivers and “ashe. Anclia ta: ~ certifieabe-frd: translate. the. Spanish to uiake sure he . heard right. “] thought you said it was @ > direct flight to Miami,” Inclin says. in dis - “ait és going direct: ta: Mia, 3 sefiera,” . ‘replies Camargo, “but it is stopping in Biaracaiby.” - The reporters diseuss with renewed horror the fact that Maracaibo ig still in Venezuela; they envision the DISIP in| behind: ‘them... ae a as AT tet eT & +7 < people paying,» call on Rothchild, Ca- . ‘arettes, “dnd several hundred gawkers .. ° are spread out in a semicircle hike faus . in the bleachefs. .- + “Canarias - tri please? No. He goes off into a huddle and comes back. Will they get in the - car 80 they can get out of the hot sunt No. Will they get in ‘the. earif he prom- ises they ‘can "watch ‘the plane, froma there? No. After’ one: huddle, ‘the unood changes and several goons sawing Httle- ‘brown blackjacks. Branch and. “Inclin “gay @ prayer, refuse to move and wave _. G&tentatiously at the airplane, ‘The froons shoVe.and menace but then go off again. Romulo comes back with his gue pulled, looking, like a crazed assassin. Camargo soon yanks him back to the good huddle, The plhne starts taxiing ; whole: sting’ “of - “tricks to get Brarich and- Inclén out of . - sight, Will they move inte the airpért, . ~~ war crina at them. His Une slant in one aurection, and the upper row. of his front teeth ‘slants in the other, mabing an X. Branch thinks Camarge must .|- file his tecth. He inches away from Romulo until he is almost: ia Joclia’s _ B Three hours later, Camargo summons the two reporters to his office after more consultation with Central Ca- ‘pacas.:Only one thing bas changed, he asys graciously. .Both their visas have - been officially revoked; they are or - dered to leave at three-thirty. The re- porters as% why, and Camargo shrugs. Without warning, the session is ine téerrupted _ then one of the younger - goons stréils in and hands Camargo a* brand-new Jim Palmer baseball glove af and a box of-six basebulla, The report . ersare astonished! LTRS weet gee” “Excuse-;ine;,” says Camargo, . who. z ‘begins ‘to pound his fist In the pew - ‘fist into the Gre: gays he knows a lot about: the United States and- “walks « over toa corner whers _ there is a stack of framed- diplomas éa the floor. He flips through them and hands Branch a diptoma from the U.&8. Army School of Special Warfare. It Is - signed by General Joseph W. Stilwell, - Commandant. Then he hands: Branch a: the-Internationat Police -- Academy, a: training school for “the world’s policemen. It has closed after a - dose of scandal, Branch wonders if all the DISIP goons have been trained by | “the Agency; hé would like te meet their American contacts: -- - Rothéhild has landed, in Miam.: He. goes straight’ to The’ Sfiawmd J 2 - eauses an uproar with his ‘s' * editors thére Have -been. wortied about Inclin since shé missed |her check-in - eall six hours ago. The managing edi- . 4 i slore- Ho is bedming. "He and. Branch? a Camargo is'now- expousive, as if the 2 reporters: were guests - in his home. He-d / di
: at Minister Marco Tulio Brunicelli talked : ¢ tor calls the Auierican Embassy ia ‘Caw. Pacas and lifts’it éff the ground with rage. The embassy promises to investi- ERe immehately. Rothchild begins to reconsider his views on newspaper edi tors, ‘Camargo comes into the holding room wearing the loox of a man who has just accomplished something. “Your visas have been officially cone fiscated,” he anhounces, The reporters look st him blankly. “What's new about that?” aske inélan. ° “You have had them all day.” “Now they ara permanently confis: - eated,” says Camargo. He shows them ‘a new Venezuelan seal stamped on each . one, Over ‘the seals, someone has . scrawled, “Visa fue revocada.” * Before the reporters have time to fig- ° _ Bre out what this signifies, Camatye . gives the order to move out, He saya the * plane is lata, “The 5000 squads mae - atein big. trouble. Even if Camargo . _ dete, thei go, ‘she-says, they coiild be "+. ‘stopped ten feet outside the sirpoit and — ‘ashed for their papers’ They could. be : slapped ia prison for the “revocada? on ' their passports. For.the first time. they ' ate not om solid legal grourid.- Branch - shakes his head wearily and tells Inclin _they have Jost a.round of hardball, =~ . They follow a triumphant Camargo . _& the plane. *e; _ Epilogue: More Pay: Phones . ‘On’ October 24) two days after the re- "porters left Caracas, Deputy Interior with the presa te clear up the’ matter. . Brinicelli. ‘said Hilla Taelan bad ars _ Fived earrying doctiments that-“did not. - : conform “with natlona’ norms,” and that “she was cordially. asked to leave . the country becausd it is necessary to ‘comply with our. laws.” As for Branch - and Rothchild, Ke declited that they :, “expressed solidarity with their col- ei | the: terrorists ard expected nothing but™ . @pposition from the Agency: “If you “t don’t help tha, good people fight Castro,” : ‘said ore old C.LA. Cuban, “then we have ta help the bad ores da it, There's noth- _- ing left but terrorism.” Branch was stunneal by how rapidly the anti-C.LA., pro-terrorist: trend: had. progressed in y eeen the two yeiirs since he had left. Miami CEA. loyalists’ were now in very short supply. The Isat defectors were . Cubans whose secret historiés stretched back to the Fifties and Sixties, when their anti-Communist, movement was in ¢ the American mainstream. The CLA. . trained the Cubans to work by stealth-—- . to He, smuggle weapons, move illegally . _is and out of countries, make bombs z strike secretly against Castro tar &. « Someof them were oficial” tere rorisfs, who would stoically accept lung jail sentences rather than reveal a C.LA, secret, Now they were no longer official. Rothchild was back home in the Ev. ergiades. On Monday he ceceived the first of several, phone calls from a man identifying hiniself ag a “consultant to the government of Wenezuela.” He wanted to give Rethchild some money, te write about Rotlchild’s background, Very weird, thought Rothchild. He be gan to worry. that'his trip to Caracas” would follow him: Press-reports from’ Venezuela quoted _ interior, ministry officials in- Venezuela as saying . that Ricardo’ Morates “did siot cause the expulsion of the Ameri- can journalista.” In an official state: ment oh October 26 the ministry said Morales’ “does not even work for the _ DISTR mo. . : . So Ay, fee days. later, D Bae: {Firm someone in Veneztels who was working on the tertorist fetwork. It came by messenger -and read like Sherlock Holmes: | “The Fey to ‘things—whatever 3 is ie . the key ta’ hits is something fou already know, It seems that something ‘he once told you or knows you know will click - with something™ you would be likely to hear here; or would reveal ‘something » here, that. ‘he didn’t want out, Think,” » Branchswent to, ses Eugetie Propper, oer this. Marales, cand - ” tha’ assistant U.S. Attorney in_charge . of the Letélier investigation. Propper | wanted to “know about the ‘Venezuela trip because he was thinking of going . there himself. ‘The leads pointed there, he said. He asked questions about the Cuban terrorists, Branch outlined what * and was satisfied that he wanted badly ‘he knew. He took a: ‘reading of Propper - to solve the case, Branch oaly., worried , heads. His worries  Shy¥ocketed when Propper usked to see a copy of The _Miami News, which contained articles "about Morales and the Venezuéla trip. ‘seeutitiized tha News ‘ag, if ‘it were a . froon, Fotk.. Something gave Branch a "Tha Neics -an encawyial lot of -4E donte thle we! get thn,” paid Propper. “pléaded. Propper niade s couple of un- . Successful -phone calls around the Jus- tiee. ‘Department and said he would get these viewspapers from thé Library of . _ Congress as soon as possible, +, Branch knew what it must be like to gall the police station in the middle of a pres Prosper Knitted - his eyebrows -and: d..the- “You . robbery and find its’ phone. disconnected: He recovered and offeréd to do: any- thing. he colld to" help, ¢ even to go back to Venezuela. . “Eve only rot one major reservation,” he anid, “and that is the Informant problem. You have to rely on the F.B.1. -and the C.I.A. to investigate, and the fact is that most of-the suspects and likely witnesses are old CLA, and F.B.L. men of some sort.” ‘created a-monster, The whole world of a murder.” : Inte the Agency through the JLRP; - before the Hay of. Pigs. Ask the Agence “cand Killed in Cuba. Now, if the Agency DISLE-now held by the DISTP for tha | . - Cubana de Aviacién bombing.) : Propper would -gay- he ways getting 4 that they” were both. way -aver their -. ‘Q: What. did’ he (Branch) Bay and | what's the State Department going to" “they arrived there last. week. I'm not-. ‘going to discuss details of what-he said, ~, wishes, ‘Our. Embassy has’ ‘expregsed awe” wt priate Government, of Venezuela offi- -we been asked. But it is not what we ° position, then?” Pre “+e anid it could he handled. The ~ ! 7 Foil ople on the ease would arrest * ; 12. their own mothers if they had ta, The- {. terrorists had threatened te kill am | FLULL uyent. The Bureau hed two hun-. | dred agents on the case. Ht was the bizvest thing isn the ULE . “What about the Agency?” asked Branch. “Look, J dunt think the C.LA. had anything te do with these murders, but the terrorists are using their old C.LA. connections in more ways than | one. The Agency is in a bind, It has j seercts in Miami has -turned upside down, But PH bet those ‘old pros over at the Agency aren’t- about. to sdtrifice - their security and secrecy to help solve- Propper said he was getting esoperas, . tion, reains of stuff im fact, Branch - asked chim to test it, “Ask theay for” thele file un Luis Posada,” he said, “I - know they've got one on him, He came what it-has about Posada’s involvement 4 with .@ bootleg assassination attempt < against Castro‘in 1969.3 volving’ a | guy named-Herminio- Diaz. Diag was cadght > doesn’t have anything on that, they're just giving you a: lot of smoke.” (Pom 5 sada i3 the Cuban-detéctive from the * Propper agreed,” (On a later “visi = Agency cooperation but declined to give Branch any details.) Oe on On November 4, the- State Depart ment responded to Branch’ ‘3 request for a position statement on the Venezuelan expulsion, which the U.S. Embassy in Caracas had been investigating. A ~ State Department representative read a: portion of a press briefing as. follows: do shout it? © -+- A: He described ‘the dealings he and ~ two others had with the Venezuelan ". . ‘authorities’: at Maiquetia Airport wher ~ ie That would -be for shim to do, if. he: ‘concern over this incident te the appro- " : : att. agi irom the State raucadae called back, “Mr, Branch,” she said, “I’m afraid . there’s been a big mistake. That. brief- ] . ing that was just read to you does not constitute the department's publie posi- tion, It is.a guideline.” a = . “What is a guidéline?” “Its a policy draft setting out “whiat the people, here are authorized to'say in | response to inquiries. What you have ~ there ig'what we would have said had have said publicly, We have no record ot being asked on the record, although sorue reporters may have inquired pri- wately, in which case we would have reaponded according to the guideline.” “So what is the State Department's a SERS Stet e rontionall ‘
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