During the frenetic post-April 25, 1974 period she was falsely accused of being a covert agent of the PIDE, causing some trauma to her public life and career.
It was rumoured that he left the National Team aged only 26 because he joined the Portuguese Political Police, the PIDE.
Writers such as Ian Fleming (the creator of James Bond) were based there, while other prominent people such as the Duke of Windsor and the Spanish Royal Family were exiled in Estoril.
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The brutality of the PIDE/DGS is dramatised in the 2000 film April Captains (about the events of the day of the Carnation Revolution).
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Thousands of Portuguese were arrested and tortured in PIDE's prisons, such as the Vila Algarve in Maputo.
In March 1968, Soares was arrested again by PIDE, and a military tribunal sentenced him to banishment in the colony of São Tomé in the Gulf of Guinea.
The cuisine is primarily based on local vegetables and includes both typical Turkish dishes - such as pide and kebab- and more unique fare - such as plain or caramel 'burnt ice-cream'.