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In 2009, Swedish journalist and La Penca survivor Peter Torbiörnsson broke 25 years of silence to reveal that prior to the bombing he had been introduced to " Hansen " in Managua by the Chief of Sandinista Intelligence, a Cuban named Renan Montero.

Afterwards, Torbiörnsson took " Hansen " under his wing when the two shared a hotel room in Costa Rica.

Torbiörnsson traveled with " Hansen " throughout northern Costa Rica in search of Pastora.

The Swede, who admitted sympathy with the Sandinista cause, said he suspected his travel companion was a spy, but he had no idea he was an assassin.

Even as journalists and news organizations spent years trying to crack the La Penca mystery, Torbiörnsson kept silent about his knowledge of the alleged bomber's Sandinista connection.

But tormented by the idea that he had been used as an unwitting accomplice to a terrorist attack, Torbiörnsson finally broke his silence by traveling to Managua in January, 2009 to present an accusation before Nicaraguan police authorities pointing to Montero, former Sandinista Minister of Interior Comandante Tomás Borge and Lenín Cerna, ex-chief of state security as intellectual authors of the attack.