Correa Calls Out CIA Infiltration

(Reuters) – Ecuador’s president accused the CIA on Saturday of controlling many of his country’s spy agencies, in comments that could fray ties with Washington and drag it into Ecuador’s feud with neighboring Colombia.

President Rafael Correa has fired a top intelligence officer and plans to overhaul spy agencies for belatedly informing him about links between Colombian rebels and an Ecuadorean who died in Colombia’s raid inside Ecuador last month that sparked a regional crisis. “Many of our intelligence agencies have been taken over by the CIA,” the leftist leader said during his weekly radio show. “Through the CIA, information found here was passed to Colombia to improve their position” in the dispute.

Correa also charged the United States with financing some officers in the Ecuadorean spy agencies