"During his imprisonment in the 1970s, Aquino told military officials that he had received training in guerrilla tactics, intelligence gathering, propaganda and agitation from the CIA. Marcos’s Defense secretary, Juan Ponce Enrile, located Aquino’s intelligence files and, in correspondence with the latter, pointed out: “These include a document on file as of 1967 to the effect that you were claiming to be a CIA agent and that you had been trained with the CIA in the United States."
The “Annotations on the Anti-CPP attacks of the so-called PKP-1930” released by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on November 8, 2005 confirms some of such allegations. “The formation of the CPP, and later of its ‘New People’s Army’ (NPA), had the covert support of then-Senator Benigno ‘Ninoy’ Aquino and media magnate Don Chino Roces,” the document said. “Both (were) known agents of the US CIA.” Roces was the publisher of “Manila Times,” which had Ninoy as a war correspondent.'