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Gustavo Grillo was a American mercenary jailed in Angola in 1976 and released in 1982.[1]

Grillo was a Marine platoon leader at the battle of Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam. He served 18 moths imprisonment in the United States ofr armed robbery.[2]

At his trial in Angola, Grillo claimed he and his colleagues were financed by the CIA.

"They paid us in new $100 bills," said Gustavo Grillo, an Argentine-born naturalized American. "It was logical that it came from the CIA. We also had American military equipment."
Under lengthy cross examination by the tribunal, Grillo said he believed there were CIA agents inside northern Angola "to see how their money was spent and see what was happening.[3]

After his release, the Washington Post wrote of Grillo's remarks at the trial:

Grillo refused to talk about his severe criticism of the United States during the trial where he called U.S. society "a monster," a society of power seekers, status seekers, waste makers where the weak get weaker and the strong get stronger.
At the time, reporters at the trial interpreted the remarks as an attempt to avoid execution since there were allegations that he had killed some Angolan soldiers.[4]

External Resources

Notes

  1. United Press International, February 28, 1984, Tuesday, PM cycle, SECTION: International.
  2. Jay Ross, 'Romantic' Ex-Mercenary Says He Would Return to Angola, Washington Post, 18 November 1982.
  3. UPI, [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2002&dat=19760614&id=Wx0vAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cNsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3170,2795118 Viet Veteran says CIA paid mercenaries, Beaver Country Times, 14 June 1976.
  4. Jay Ross, 'Romantic' Ex-Mercenary Says He Would Return to Angola, Washington Post, 18 November 1982.