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	{{~~more footnotes~~\|~~date~~=~~December 2010~~}}		'''Casimiro Emérito Rosa Teles Jordão Monteiro''' ([[Goa]], 28 December 1920 - [[Richards Bay]], 25 January 1993),<ref name="govapuri">{{cite journal \|publisher=[[Institute Menezes Braganza]] \|publication-place=[[Goa]], [[India]] \|journal=Govapuri \|pages=61-65 \|volume=10 \|issue=4 \|year=2016 \|first1=P. \|last1=Varela Gomes \|first2=Paul \|last2=Castro \|translator=Paul Castro \|title=My name is Casimiro Monteiro \|editor1-first=Sanjay \|editor1-last=Harmalkar \|editor2-first=Pundalik Raut \|editor2-last=Dessa }}</ref><ref>[https://www.geni.com/people/Casimiro-Em%C3%A9rito-Rosa-Teles-Jord%C3%A3o-Monteiro-Agente-Monteiro/6000000041235660538 geni.com]</ref> also known as '''Agente Monteiro''', was a notorious [[Goan Portuguese]] [[covert operation\|covert operations military officer]], [[terrorism\|terrorist]], [[military intelligence\|intelligence officer]] and [[law enforcement\|law enforcement officer]] in Portugal during the authoritarian [[Estado Novo (Portugal)\|Estado Novo]] regime performing state-sanctioned subversive and [[terrorism\|terroristic]] attacks against enemies of the state. As an agent of the regime he carried out attacks and assassinations in Portugal, [[Mozambique]] and in [[Portuguese India\|Portuguese]] [[Goa]]; his attacks were mostly focused on members of independence movements that existed in these [[Portuguese colonial empire\|Portuguese colonies]].<ref name="govapuri" />

	'''Casimiro Emérito Rosa Teles Jordão Monteiro''' ([[Goa]], 28 December 1920 - [[Richards Bay]], 25 January 1993),<ref>[http://historiadalousa.blogspot.pt/2014/10/o-assassino-do-general-humberto-delgadoo.html ''O Assassino do General Humberto Delgado'']</ref><ref>[https://www.geni.com/people/Casimiro-Em%C3%A9rito-Rosa-Teles-Jord%C3%A3o-Monteiro-Agente-Monteiro/6000000041235660538 geni.com]</ref> also known as '''Agente Monteiro''', was a notorious figure in [[Portuguese India\|Portuguese]] [[Goa]]. As a [[PIDE]] [[Espionage#Agents in espionage\|agent]], Monteiro carried out the high-profile assassinations of [[Humberto Delgado]], opposition leader to [[António de Oliveira Salazar\|Salazar]]'~~s Portuguese dictatorship,~~ and [[Eduardo Mondlane]], leader of [[FRELIMO]].		As a [[PIDE]] [[Espionage#Agents in espionage\|agent]] (the [[secret police]] of the Portuguese dictatorship), Monteiro carried out the high-profile assassinations of [[Humberto Delgado]],<ref name="delgros" /> who was a political opposition leader to [[António de Oliveira Salazar\|Salazar's]] ''[[Estado Novo (Portugal)\|Estado Novo]]''; and [[Eduardo Mondlane]], leader of [[FRELIMO]];<ref name="govapuri" /> in addition to this he also brutally tortured an uncertain number of [[Goan]]s who advocated for the union of Goa with [[India]], something which did happen [[Annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli\|on mid-1954 with the Indian annexation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli]] and [[Annexation of Goa\|on December 1961 with the Indian annexation of Goa]].<ref name="monteiro" /><ref name="navhindtimes1" />

			After [[Carnation Revolution\|the fall of the Portuguese dictatorship]], Monteiro lost his job and protection he enjoyed from the government and he quickly disappeared, forced to abandon his wife and son and taking refuge in [[South Africa]] during the [[racist]] [[Apartheid]] regime which offered him asylum;<ref name="tracking" /> however, he was not supported economically or offered a job and he eventually died there in poverty and separated from his family.<ref name="monteiro" /><ref name="govapuri" />

	==Early life==		==Early life==
	Monteiro was born in [[Portuguese Goa State\|Portuguese Goa]] to a white Portuguese father and a native Goan mother, an ''aguadeira'' from the city of [[Ponda, Goa\|Ponda]].<ref name="navhindtimes1">{{cite ~~web~~\|~~url~~=~~http:/~~/~~www~~.~~navhindtimes~~.~~in/elections/case~~-cm-s-~~bungalow~~ \|archive-url=https://archive.~~today~~/20130218024152/http://www.navhindtimes.in/elections/case-cm-s-bungalow ~~\|url-status=dead~~ \|archive-date=2013~~-02-18~~ \|~~title~~=~~The Case of the CM’s Bungalow \| iGoa \|publisher=Navhindtimes~~.in ~~\|date=~~2012-01-~~28 \|access~~-~~date=2012~~-07-06 }}</ref> He lived in Portugal for sometime before joining [[General Franco]]'s army in the [[Spanish Civil War]].		Monteiro was born in [[Portuguese Goa State\|Portuguese Goa]] to a white Portuguese father and a native Goan mother, an ''aguadeira'' from the city of [[Ponda, Goa\|Ponda]].<ref name="navhindtimes1">{{cite website \|first=Mário \|last=Cabral e Sá \|date=28 January 2012 \|access-date=29 August 2021 \|title=The case of the CM's bungalow \|work=The Navhind Times \|publisher=Navhind Papers & Publications (Dempo Group/Dempo Industries Pvt. Ltd.) \|url-status=dead \|publication-place=[[Goa]], [[India]] \|editor1-first=Pramod \|editor1-last=Revankar \|editor2-first=Arun \|editor2-last=Sinha \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/20130218024152/http://www.navhindtimes.in/elections/case-cm-s-bungalow \|archive-date=18 February 2013 \|url=https://www.navhindtimes.in/2012/01/28/magazines/panorama/elections-case-cm-s-bungalow }}</ref> He lived in Portugal for sometime before joining [[General Franco]]'s army in the [[Spanish Civil War]].<ref name="maillistgoanvo">{{cite mailing list \|mailing-list=Goan Voice Newsletter \|first=Eddie \|last=Fernandes [[London]], United Kingdom of Great Britain \|date=23 July 2014 \|access-date=29 August 2021 \|url=http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/printerfile.php?link=2014-07-23 \|publisher=Goan Voice UK \|title=Goan Voice Newsletter: Wednesday 23 Jul. 2014 }}</ref>

	After the [[World War II\|war]], Monteiro moved to the United Kingdom, where he worked for a butcher whose daughter he married.<ref name="~~navhindtimes1~~"/>		After the [[World War II\|war]], Monteiro moved to the United Kingdom, where he worked for a butcher whose daughter he married<ref name="navhindtimes1"/> and had a son; although he abandoned them after the Carnation Revolution when he lost the protection of the now-toppled Salazar dictatorship and was forced to go on the run to avoid prosecution and extradition to India.<ref name="tracking" />

	==Goa-Portuguese Colonial Era==		==Goa-Portuguese Colonial Era==
	In the 1950s, Monteiro joined the Portuguese Colonial Police in Goa, where he interrogated [[Goan liberation movement]] activists. Much of the brutal torture/ interrogations took place at Valpoi Police Station~~. There~~ were several local ~~theatro~~ songs of the ~~dreaded~~ Agent Monteiro.		In the 1950s, Monteiro joined the Portuguese Colonial Police in Goa, where he interrogated [[Goan liberation movement]] activists.<ref name="resjour" /><ref name="monteiro" /> Much of the brutal torture during interrogations took place at Valpoi Police Station and, eventually, Monteiro became infamous and feared throughout [[Portuguese India]];<ref name="tracking" /> by the closing years of Portuguese rule in India there were even several local theatre songs of the feared Agent Monteiro.<ref name="resjour">{{cite journal \|title=Goan freedom struggle and 'Hom-kand' started by Jeevanmukt Maharaj \|journal=Research Journey \|volume=183 \|issue=A \|pages=1-8 \|last=Madgaonkar \|first=Vinay \|publisher=Swatidhan Publications \|issn=2348-7143 \|date=1 April 2019 \|format=PDF \|url=http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/bitstream/handle/unigoa/5870/Res_Journey_183%28A%29_2019_1-8.pdf \|editor1-first=Dhanraj Totaram \|editor1-last=Dhangar \|editor2-first=Swati V. \|editor2-last=Lawange \|publication-place=[[Nashik]], [[India]] }}</ref>

	==PIDE agent==		==PIDE agent==
	After Goa's annexation by the [[Indian Army]] in 1961, Monteiro was recruited by the [[Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado]] (PIDE), the dreaded Portuguese Secret Service. Initially, he participated in a campaign to organise an anti-Indian resistance among Goans code named Plan Gralha. PIDE agents used the Emissona Nacional, radio station which continued to broadcast after 1961, to broadcast stories of Goan non-cooperation with Indian authorities. Plans were made to sabotage port facilities at Mormugao and Bombay. In 1962, a bomb was planted at Vasco Municipal School in March 1962, and another at a different location in October. Casimiro was implicated in bomb blasts on June 20, 1964. The Portuguese government, in an official statement to the UN, later claimed that the attacks were acts of revolt against Indian rule.<ref>{{cite web \|~~last1~~=~~Times News Network~~ \|~~title~~=Records ~~Show Colonizers Were Not Done With~~ Goa \|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Records-show-colonizers-were-not-done-with-Goa/articleshow/11162999.cms \|website=Times of India}}</ref>		After Goa's annexation by the [[Indian Army]] in 1961, Monteiro was recruited by the [[Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado]] (PIDE), the dreaded Portuguese Secret Service.<ref name="delgros">{{cite news \|title=A terceira morte do Gen. Delgado \|first=Frederico \|last=Delgado Rosa \|date=3 May 2008 \|access-date=29 August 2021 \|url=https://www.dn.pt/arquivo/2008/a-terceira-morte-do-gen-delgado-998893.html \|publication-place=[[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]] \|website=Diário de Notícias \|language=Portuguese \|editor1-last=de Andradem \|editor1-first=Domingos \|editor2-last=Tecedeiro \|editor2-first=Helen \|editor3-last=Sequeira \|editor3-first=Pedro \|editor4-last=Ferro \|editor4-first=Carlos \|editor5-last=Cassiano \|editor5-first=Artur \|editor6-first=Elsa \|editor6-last=Rocha \|editor7-first=Carlos \|editor7-last=Nogueira \|editor8-first=Manuel \|editor8-last=Molinos \|editor9-first=Marcelo \|editor9-last=Leite \|publisher=Global Media Group (Global Noticias, Media Group, S.A.) }}</ref> Initially, he participated in a campaign to organise an anti-Indian resistance among Goans code named Plan Gralha. PIDE agents used the Emissona Nacional, radio station which continued to broadcast after 1961, to broadcast stories of Goan non-cooperation with Indian authorities. Plans were made to sabotage port facilities at Mormugao and Bombay. In 1962, a bomb was planted at Vasco Municipal School in March 1962, and another at a different location in October.<ref name="monteiro">{{cite web \|first=Lisa \|last=Monteiro \|date=5 June 2017 \|access-date=29 August 2021 \|title=When Portugal made one last effort to recapture Goa from India \|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/when-portugal-made-one-last-effort-to-recapture-goa-from-india/articleshow/58998725.cms \|publisher=[[Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.]] ([[The Times Group]]) \|publication-place=[[Gurgaon]], [[Haryana]], [[India]] \|editor1-first=Jadeep \|editor1-last=Bose \|website=[[The Times of India]] \|issn=0971-8257 \|oclc=23379369 \|editor2-first=Vineet \|editor2-last=Jain \|editor2-link=Vineet Jain \|editor3-first=V. \|editor3-last=Sivaukumar }}</ref> Casimiro was implicated in bomb blasts on June 20, 1964.<ref name="newsp14">{{cite newspaper \|volume=21 \|issue=157 \|page=15 \|newspaper=[[The Asian Age]] \|department=Books section \|publication-place=[[New Delhi]], [[India]] \|date=23 July 2014 \|via=PressDisplay (PressReader) \|title=Goa blasts: Lens on 2 Portuguese (50 Years Ago In Deccan Chronicle) \|url=http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=LNDP1YIXVM48&preview=article&linkid=c92b1c46-fe60-4850-ac79-5e0c88aae447 \|editor1-first=Aditya \|editor1-last=Sinha \|editor2-first=Seema \|editor2-last=Mustafa \|editor2-link=Seema Mustafa \|publisher=Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited \|language=English \|access-date=29 August 2021 }}</ref> The Portuguese government, in an official statement to the UN, later claimed that the attacks were acts of revolt against Indian rule.<ref name="12recdonegoa">{{cite web \|archive-date=12 January 2012 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112013205/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Records-show-colonizers-were-not-done-with-Goa/articleshow/11162999.cms \|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Records-show-colonizers-were-not-done-with-Goa/articleshow/11162999.cms \|title=Records show colonizers were not done with Goa \|date=19 December 2011 \|access-date=29 August 2021 \|publisher=[[Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd.]] ([[The Times Group]]) \|publication-place=[[Gurgaon]], [[Haryana]], [[India]] \|editor1-first=Jadeep \|editor1-last=Bose \|website=[[The Times of India]] \|issn=0971-8257 \|oclc=23379369 \|editor2-first=Vineet \|editor2-last=Jain \|editor2-link=Vineet Jain \|editor3-first=V. \|editor3-last=Sivaukumar \|author=Editorial staff }}</ref>

	In 1965, he assassinated General Humberto Delgado in Spain. General Delgado was the Opposition Leader against the Salazar ~~Dictatorship~~. Monteiro, who had shot Delgado and strangled his secretary, was found guilty by the Spanish courts and was sentenced to 19 years ''[[trial in absentia\|in absentia]]''.		In 1965, he assassinated General Humberto Delgado in Spain.<ref name="barradot">{{cite web \|website=elDiario.es \|date=27 March 2015 \|access-date=29 August 2021 \|first=Mercedes \|last=Barrado Timón \|publisher=Diario de Prensa Digital S.L. \|editor1-first=Ignacio \|editor1-last=Escolar \|editor2-first=Jual Luis \|editor2-last=Sánchez \|editor3-first=Toño \|editor3-last=Fraguas \|editor4-first=Jaime \|editor4-last=Sevilla \|editor5-first=Marta \|editor5-last=Barandela \|language=Spanish \|editor6-first=Juan \|editor6-last=Checa \|url=https://www.eldiario.es/extremadura/cultura/humberto-delgado-frederico_1_4308046.html \|title=“La democracia portuguesa ha dado todos los honores a Humberto Delgado” \|publication-place=[[Madrid]], [[Spain]] }}</ref><ref name="casaco">{{cite web \|language=Portuguese \|website=Expresso \|publisher=IMPRESA PUBLISHING S.A. \|editor1-first=Francisco \|editor1-last=Pinto Balsemão \|editor2-first=Francisco Maria \|editor2-last=Balsemão \|editor3-first=Francisco Pedro \|editor3-last=Balsemão \|editor4-first=Paulo \|editor4-last=de Saldanha \|editor5-first=Paulo Miguel \|editor5-last=Reis \|editor6-first=Nuno Miguel \|editor6-last=Conde \|editor7-first=Cristina \|editor7-last=Vaz Tomé \|editor8-first=Ricardo \|editor8-last=Costa \|editor9-first=João \|editor9-last=Vieira Pereira \|publication-place=[[Paço de Arcos]], [[Lisbon metropolitan area]], [[Portugal]] \|title=«Como matámos Humberto Delgado» \|url=https://expresso.pt/actualidade/como-matamos-humberto-delgado=f107152 \|first=António \|last=Rosa Casaco }}</ref> General Delgado was the Opposition Leader against the Salazar government.<ref name="elpais">{{cite web \|access-date=29 August 2021 \|publication-place=[[Madrid]], [[Spain]] \|editor1-first=Joaquín \|editor1-last=Estefanía \|editor2-last=Mónica Ceberio \|editor3-link=Ignacio Polanco \|editor3-first=Ignacio \|editor3-last=Polanco Moreno \|editor4-first=Juan Luis \|editor4-last=Cebrián Echarri \|editor4-link=Juan Luis Cebrián \|publisher=Ediciones El País, S.L. ([[PRISA\|Promotora de Informaciones, S.A. (PRISA)]]) \|issn=1576-3757 \|first=Luis \|last=Otanduy \|title=Los asesinos de Humberto Delgado en libertad \|date=25 June 2018 \|url=https://www.elpais.com/diario/1980/06/26/internacional/330818403_850215.html \|website=[[El País]] \|language=Spanish \|archive-date=14 August 2014 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814180214/https://www.elpais.com/diario/1980/06/26/internacional/330818403_850215.html }}</ref> Monteiro, who had shot Delgado and strangled his secretary, was found guilty by the Spanish courts and was sentenced to 19 years ''[[trial in absentia\|in absentia]]''.<ref name="newsp14" /><ref name="casaco" />

	In the late 1960s, Monteiro went to [[Portuguese Mozambique]] (as a PIDE agent) to fight FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique), a movement fighting for independence against the internationally recognized Portuguese Government. Most of the Frelimo fighters were based in Tanzania. Monteiro crossed into Tanzania, and using a parcel bomb assassinated [[Eduardo Mondlane]], the founder Leader of FRELIMO.		In the late 1960s, Monteiro went to [[Portuguese Mozambique]] (as a PIDE agent) to fight FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique), a movement fighting for independence against the internationally recognized Portuguese Government. Most of the Frelimo fighters were based in Tanzania. Monteiro crossed into Tanzania, and using a parcel bomb assassinated [[Eduardo Mondlane]], the founder Leader of FRELIMO.<ref name="tracking" /><ref name="govapuri" />

	==Later life==		==Later life==
	He returned to Portugal, but after the 1974 [[Carnation Revolution]], which overthrew the ~~Portuguese dictatorship~~, Monteiro took refuge in the South African Embassy. He later moved to South Africa, where he spent the remainder of his life under the alias 'José Fernandez'. Almost blind and destitute (helped by the South African police) he died in 1993, at [[Richards Bay]], South Africa.		He returned to Portugal, but after the 1974 [[Carnation Revolution]], which overthrew the ''[[Estado Novo (Portugal)\|Estado Novo]]'', Monteiro took refuge in the South African Embassy. He later moved to South Africa, where he spent the remainder of his life under the alias 'José Fernandez'. Almost blind and destitute (helped by the South African police) he died in 1993, at [[Richards Bay]], South Africa.<ref name="tracking">{{cite web \|title=Tracking Goa's dreaded agent via cyberspace \|first=Frederick \|last=Noronha \|date=29 May 2008 \|access-date=29 August 2021 \|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/tracking-goa-s-dreaded-agent-via-cyberspace/story-gFKbGMozaw31MkJaXV8b4H.html \|website=[[Hindustan Times]] \|publisher=[[HT Media]] \|publication-place=[[Delhi]], [[India]] \|issn=0972-0243 \|oclc=231696742 \|editor1-first=Sukumar \|editor1-last=Ranganathan \|editor2-first=Shobhana \|editor2-last=Bharia \|editor2-link=Shobhana Bhartia }}</ref>

	== ~~References~~ ==
	~~{{reflist}}~~

	==~~External links=~~=
	*[http://www.hindustantimes.com/~~India-news~~/~~Goa/Tracking~~-~~Goa~~-s-dreaded-agent-via-cyberspace/~~Article1~~-~~313907~~.~~aspx Tracking Goa's dreaded agent via cyberspace~~]

			== Citations ==
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{{more footnotes|date=December 2010}}

'''Casimiro Emérito Rosa Teles Jordão Monteiro''' ([[Goa]], 28 December 1920 - [[Richards Bay]], 25 January 1993),<ref>[http://historiadalousa.blogspot.pt/2014/10/o-assassino-do-general-humberto-delgadoo.html ''O Assassino do General Humberto Delgado'']</ref><ref>[https://www.geni.com/people/Casimiro-Em%C3%A9rito-Rosa-Teles-Jord%C3%A3o-Monteiro-Agente-Monteiro/6000000041235660538 geni.com]</ref> also known as '''Agente Monteiro''', was a notorious figure in [[Portuguese India|Portuguese]] [[Goa]]. As a [[PIDE]] [[Espionage#Agents in espionage|agent]], Monteiro carried out the high-profile assassinations of [[Humberto Delgado]], opposition leader to [[António de Oliveira Salazar|Salazar]]'s Portuguese dictatorship, and [[Eduardo Mondlane]], leader of [[FRELIMO]].

==Early life==
Monteiro was born in [[Portuguese Goa State|Portuguese Goa]] to a white Portuguese father and a native Goan mother, an ''aguadeira'' from the city of [[Ponda, Goa|Ponda]].<ref name="navhindtimes1">{{cite web|url=http://www.navhindtimes.in/elections/case-cm-s-bungalow |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218024152/http://www.navhindtimes.in/elections/case-cm-s-bungalow |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-02-18 |title=The Case of the CM’s Bungalow | iGoa |publisher=Navhindtimes.in |date=2012-01-28 |access-date=2012-07-06 }}</ref> He lived in Portugal for sometime before joining [[General Franco]]'s army in the [[Spanish Civil War]].

After the [[World War II|war]], Monteiro moved to the United Kingdom, where he worked for a butcher whose daughter he married.<ref name="navhindtimes1"/>

==Goa-Portuguese Colonial Era==
In the 1950s, Monteiro joined the Portuguese Colonial Police in Goa, where he interrogated [[Goan liberation movement]] activists. Much of the brutal torture/ interrogations took place at Valpoi Police Station. There were several local theatro songs of the dreaded Agent Monteiro.

==PIDE agent==
After Goa's annexation by the [[Indian Army]] in 1961, Monteiro was recruited by the [[Polícia Internacional e de Defesa do Estado]] (PIDE), the dreaded Portuguese Secret Service. Initially, he participated in a campaign to organise an anti-Indian resistance among Goans code named Plan Gralha. PIDE agents used the Emissona Nacional, radio station which continued to broadcast after 1961, to broadcast stories of Goan non-cooperation with Indian authorities. Plans were made to sabotage port facilities at Mormugao and Bombay. In 1962, a bomb was planted at Vasco Municipal School in March 1962, and another at a different location in October. Casimiro was implicated in bomb blasts on June 20, 1964. The Portuguese government, in an official statement to the UN, later claimed that the attacks were acts of revolt against Indian rule.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Times News Network |title=Records Show Colonizers Were Not Done With Goa |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Records-show-colonizers-were-not-done-with-Goa/articleshow/11162999.cms |website=Times of India}}</ref>

In 1965, he assassinated General Humberto Delgado in Spain. General Delgado was the Opposition Leader against the Salazar Dictatorship. Monteiro, who had shot Delgado and strangled his secretary, was found guilty by the Spanish courts and was sentenced to 19 years ''[[trial in absentia|in absentia]]''.

In the late 1960s, Monteiro went to [[Portuguese Mozambique]] (as a PIDE agent) to fight FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique), a movement fighting for independence against the internationally recognized Portuguese Government. Most of the Frelimo fighters were based in Tanzania. Monteiro crossed into Tanzania, and using a parcel bomb assassinated [[Eduardo Mondlane]], the founder Leader of FRELIMO.

==Later life==
He returned to Portugal, but after the 1974 [[Carnation Revolution]], which overthrew the Portuguese dictatorship, Monteiro took refuge in the South African Embassy. He later moved to South Africa, where he spent the remainder of his life under the alias 'José Fernandez'. Almost blind and destitute (helped by the South African police) he died in 1993, at [[Richards Bay]], South Africa.

== References ==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Goa/Tracking-Goa-s-dreaded-agent-via-cyberspace/Article1-313907.aspx Tracking Goa's dreaded agent via cyberspace]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Monteiro, Casimiro}}
[[Category:1993 deaths]]
[[Category:Portuguese people of colonial India]]
[[Category:Portuguese assassins]]
[[Category:Portuguese emigrants to South Africa]]
[[Category:Portuguese expatriates in South Africa]]
[[Category:1920 births]]