ESCAPE FROM BARCELONA OF THREE AFARE MEMBERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000300730008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 26, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELUGENCE REPORT
; UNTRY Spain
5. The fugitives claim that the AFARE has a following of some 20,000.
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SUBJECT Escape from Barcelona of Three AFAR
Members
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ORIGIN
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1. The following members of the Agrupacion de J'uersas Armadas de la Republica
Espanola were reported on 25 January 1947 to have arrfvsd in Paris, having
25X1X6 escaped on 23 January through Behobia, Basses Pyrenees:
Francisco Alda Sagasti, an officer of the APABE, who was employed as
Chief 4ccountaant in the Agromaa, S.A., construction company of
Barcelona. He belongs to the Confederation National del Trabajo
(ONT), and during the Spanish Civil War was a captain in the Army
of Buskadi,
Manuel Arzobido Artasa, who was in the ranks of the AFABI3 and pro-)-ad
as a day laborer in the Agroamn plant. He also is a member of the ONT,
014ulia Redondo Blanco, associated with Alda in the AFARE.
2. Alda stated that after the first arrests of ARABS leaders, precautions
were taken by members of the organisation and it appeared that the storm
had blown over. Subsequently, however, new arrests were made, principally
an the Seas district, of AFAR members who had not been molested previously.
3. On 9 January Aida heard that information about him had been given to police
officers and that they were delaying his arrest in the hope of trapping the
whole group. On 10 January the police went to the offices of Agroman. S.A.
and asked for the personnel roster. Alda, with Arsobido and Senora de
R d.ondo, eluded the police and went to Valencia, thence to Madrid,,Bilbao
and San Sebastian. Senora de Redondo bad managed to obtain false papers
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4. According to Alda, arrests of some APARS members are the result of the work
of a spy for Chinchilla of the Barcelona Police Headquarters, a certain
Mali, who has penetratedCNT circles. Moll, Aids stated, is always armed
and escorted by two agents. According to Arsobido, another informer is
Fernando Vidal, nephew of a police commissioner.
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