If I remember the first Bourne novel, correctly, Ludlum had Carlos in an incestuous relationship with his sister. Presumably that’s worse than being accused of terrorist activities that he was never convicted of. I wonder why that didn’t bother him. Is it because he wasn’t yet married to his lawyer?

I think that it is probably because he knows that the terrorist activities are probable and he does not want people reminded of what he did. If he can pull that off, the next thing is to work to get paroled.