BACKGROUND FOR THE FALL OF THE GIRAL GOVERNMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000400310001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 11, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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INTEWGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY Spain
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SUBJECT Background for the Fall of the Giral Government
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DIST March 1947
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1, For some months the political sentiment had been developing which has oulmi-
nated in the present crisis of the Republican Government. The Socialists
and C!TT members precipitated the crisis by building up achrerse sentiment
towards Girfal, believing him incapable of nehieving a satisfactory. end to
.the Spanish problem
Foreign influenoes, minly British, have not been lacking in this position
of the Socialists and Gene tistas, the propaf ands of the D$C contributed to
the fall of the Govcrnment,,
Sr, It was unfortunate that the crisis came when it did. Throe months a it
could have had some effect on the rating of the 3A. Perhaps also i might
have been effective two months ai;o in helping to achieve a positive result
from the conversations begun with the British at the time of the visit to
Paris on 18 and 19 Ilacember of Ernest Davies,, Parliamentary Private Seem?
tary to the British Minister of Stated
4. The interview with British elements was r ost important. It was the first
time that at=. officially authorized member of the British Government had
approached the Government of the Republic to investigate the possibilities
of a solution. The presence of Davies was explained by the course of the
conversation:
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a. The British have no confidence in the monarchist solution,
b~ The repuhlioa. elements of the Interior of Spain have little personal
authority, and they do not represert the authentic opposition parties?
Whose leaders in general are in exile
c. Therefore, the British were approaching exiled personalities, sand
specifically the Republican Goverment, which in'their judgment
was the most extensive democratic coalition and the force which
could serene as the nucleus of a concentration of anti-Prsaiao forces
to embrace even the rightist sectors.
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5. Giral assured Davies that he was disposed to collaborate with monarchists
and generals of anti