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Spy’s rest home

Peru’s disgraced intelligence chief has left a trail

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THE last time Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's former intelligence chief, was seen in public was in October, when he landed at an air base in his home country after a brief sojourn in Panama. As befits a spy, he then vanished. Or rather, it seems, he went to Venezuela.

This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Spy’s rest home”

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