In 2009, Swedish journalist, filmmaker, and La Penca survivor Peter Torbiörnsson broke 25 years of silence to reveal that he had known of "Hansen"'s ties with the Sandinistas before the bombing. Torbiörnsson admitted that, in spite of his work as an ostensibly objetive international journalist, at the time he sympathized strongly with the Sandinista cause, and that he was introduced to "Hansen" in Managua by the chief of Sandinista counter-intelligence, a Cuban military officer named Renán Montero. At Montero's request, Torbiörnsson took "Hansen" under his wing and provided journalistic cover as the two traveled through northern Costa Rica to attend Pastora's press conference. Torbiörnsson explained that, at the time, he realized that his travel companion was a Sandinista spy, but did not suspect that he was an assassin.