I HAD FRIENDS WHO WEREN’T SO SCHOLARLY.

National Post he could not comment on the matter for privacy reasons, refused to provide police the information being sought and contacted Goldstaub instead.

“It was entirely deceptive,” Sutton said. The detective, Steve Belzile, said he was simply “making verifications” with the consulate but cannot comment further because the matter is before the courts.

Goldstaub said confidentiality agreements prevent him from saying much about his work on behalf of U.S. interests in Central America and Southeast Asia in the 1960s and ‘70s. backing from the people who had me there on contract, who pulled me out. But if I didn’t, I’d be stone-cold dead during the ‘60s.”

It was Somoza who ended up dead, assassinated in Paraguay in 1980 by a Sandinista team that riddled his Mercedes sedan with machine-gun fire and blew the roof off with a bazooka. “Beautiful hit. Beautiful hit,” Goldstaub said, describing in detail how the assassins carried out the job. “Be careful, Jesse. … Someone was killed,” Sutton, his lawyer, interjected. “Well, it was done very, very professionally,” Goldstaub said, making