Protected by the armed forces and the CIA, he lived in hiding since the 1970s and only had a couple of public appearances in which he confirmed his denunciations. The first happened on March 28, 1984, when he gave an interview to the magazine Istoé, in which he tells how he had gone from the armed struggle to collaborating with the repressive apparatus of the Brazilian dictatorship. For fifteen years he was not heard from again, until in 1999, another magazine, Época, did a new report on him in which he confirmed that he was the main person responsible for the dismantling of the Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária.
