The sergeant entered the telephone booth that morning, picked up the receiver and made the anonymous call to the Military Judiciary picket line, following the plan to the letter. The war material stolen four months before from the bunkers at Tancos was in a field in Chamusca, he warned. It was the holy password to launch the operation to recover the armaments, of which it was to be said later that it was a “staging”.
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