Casimiro Monteiro
Portuguese intelligence officer and assasin
Casimiro Emérito Rosa Teles Jordão Monteiro (28 December 1920 – 25 January 1993), also known as Agente Monteiro, was a Portuguese covert operations military intelligence officer and law enforcement officer during the Estado Novo regime. He carried out state-sanctioned bombings and assassinations in Portugal, Mozambique and Goa. His actions were mostly focused against members of independence movements that existed in the Portuguese colonial empire.
As a PIDE agent, Monteiro tortured Indians in Goa (e.g. Mohan Ranade, an Indian independence activist) who were demanding the union of Portuguese India territories with the recently independent India. Monteiro is believed to have carried out the high-profile assassinations of Humberto Delgado and Eduardo Mondlane.
Following the Carnation Revolution in 1974, Monteiro lost his job and his immunity from prosecution. He received political asylum in apartherid South Africa and lived there in poverty as well as obscurity till his death.
Early life
Monteiro was born on 28 December 1920 in Portuguese Goa to a Portuguese father and his Goan Catholic wife, an aguadeira (water supplier) from the city of Ponda. He lived in Portugal for some time before joining General Franco's army in the Spanish Civil War.
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