HUGE Plot Hole in the Movie!!!


I really love this movie. I mean, it's one of my all time favorites. But, the thing is, something odd occurred to me while recently re-watching it.
When Blondie and Tuco are put in the Union-controlled prison camp, Tuco sees Angel-Eyes dressed as a Union officer and asks Blondie if it really is him. However, Blondie and Tuco had never personally met Angel-Eyes during the duration of the film yet.
The plot hole just gets wider when Tuco is invited by Angel-Eyes to eat. Angel-Eyes knows Tuco by name, plus Tuco calls Angel-Eyes an "old friend".
The only thing that was even remotely close to Blondie and Tuco meeting Angel-Eyes would be during Tuco's second hanging scene, in which Angel-Eyes notices that Blondie will shoot off Tuco's noose, thus saving him. However, I took that as just something Angel-Eyes noticed was going on, and that they were not people he recognized.
I'm really shocked I haven't read anything about this huge plot-hole anywhere. Was there perhaps a deleted scene where the three met before the prison-camp scene?

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Angel Eyes asks Bill Carson to join him for dinner at the prison camp then calls him Tuco. Tuco then laughs and laughs and says "I bet you don't call you sergeant Angel Eyes". So Angel Eyes and Tucu at least knew each other...

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