1.

There are many official and unofficial documents,

including those from intelligence services which, from time
to time are filtered. The problem is to make sure they are
authentic, and this refering, not only to the documents that
are leaked o received that, supposedly, come from an
intelligence service, but the authenticity of the documents
that can be found in the offices from where they could have
been obtained.

2. It is widely known that communications and mails via

Internet are permanently hacked, even by individuals,
politicians and activists seeking to unlawfully obtain
information for their own purposes. I agree this is illegal
although there may be documents which, due to their
nature, are public, such as travels, vehicles, houses and
other property subject to public registration. Please note
that I have a newspaper clipping that, if am not mistaken,
comes from The Guardian, which reports that it is much
easier for the British police to intervene cell phones than to
withdraw money from a cash machine.
Now, I suppose it has been properly established that, in
addition to being authentic, the above referred documents
effectively come from the Ecuadorian Intelligence
Secretariat.

3. I will be forwarding your mail to Ecuador’s Foreign

Ministry (please consider the time difference) and, after
receiving their information, deliver an opinion to you.
Obviously, we will take into account the confidentiality of
the source, but that does not waive the neccesity of verifying
the authenticity of the documents that given its volume may
not necessarily be authentic. I remember we discussed
already with the Guardian Editor about publications related
to the Yasuni initiative and about documents that had been
forged and delivered by an ex - union leader, Villavicencio,
oppositor to the government.
4. In Ecuador there is a record of information that is public
(Secure Data) from which, via Internet, open public
information can be obtained.

As said before, I will be forwarding your e-mail to Ecuador’s

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and get back to you as soon as
possible.

On a different matter, I should inform you that, at the

beginning of July, I will be traveling to Geneva to asume my
post as Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Ecuador
to the World Trade Organization, and would very much like
to meet you before my departure.

I'm presently reviewing your article published by the

Guardian yesterday, related to the documentary on Chevron.

Yours sincerely,

Juan Falconi Puig

Ambassador