Declassified after 50 years: on Politico the story of Dennis Redmont’s file from the Portuguese secret police archive
Sunday, October 4th, 2015 | Articles
Dennis Redmont wrote for Politico about his experience as foreign correspondent at Lisbon, Portugal, during the dictatorship.
Redmont’s political police file from 50 years ago under the Portuguese dictatorship was declassified, and he had a chance to see how Europe’s most durable regime tracked everything: phone calls, telex dispatches, monitoring etc (there was even a 1966 letter from a classmate I saw for the first time, steamed open and shakily translated).