Ecuador Accuses CIA Of
Controlling Part Of Its
Intelligence
Ecuador's President
Rafael Correa accused
the CIA on Saturday of
controlling many of his
country's spy agencies
and passing information
to Colombia.
"Many of our
intelligence agencies
have been taken over by
the CIA," the president
said during his weekly
radio address.
"Through the CIA,
information found here
was passed to Colombia
to improve their
position," he added.
The president has fired
a top intelligence
officer and plans to
overhaul spy agencies
for belatedly informing
him about links between
Colombian rebels and an
Ecuadorian who died in
Colombia's raid inside
Ecuador last month.
Correa also charged that
the United States
financed some officers
in the Ecuadorian spy
agencies.
Ecuador broke off
diplomatic ties with
Colombia after Colombian
troops attacked a rebel
camp inside Ecuadorian
territory on March 1.
The conflict briefly
aroused fears of war in
the Andean region as
Ecuador and Venezuela
ordered troops to their
borders with Colombia,
but was later eased at a
regional summit on March
7.
On Monday, Ecuador began
suing neighboring
Colombia at the
International Court of
Justice, demanding an
end to Colombian
herbicide spraying,
citing its alleged bad
impact on the health of
Ecuadorians as well as
their animals and crops.
Correa said that
Ecuador's decision to
sue Colombia in
international court was
in response to the raid.
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