THE SPANISH EMBASSY IN ARGENTINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000800150005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: August 8, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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the Espionage A't 5O, U..SOC. 31 and
32 as amended. Its tranmisssion or
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manner to an u nant'iorized person
is prohibited by CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
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COUNTRY Argentina/Spain
BJECT The Spanish Embas
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de Areilse Ifiartine Roda.s, has privately -A51U"V , ""Zv Wetrla
expressed his and dis-
content because of the coolness of his reception inArgentina. Not only has
he remarked on the coolness on the part of the Argentines, out also or the
part of his own colleagues in the Embassy, most of whom areibnarchist v , He
has blamed the coolness of the Spanish colony to the Faiangi,: t cause on the
local Franflo press, of which only one weekly now exists, NuAjrp Corso.
whereas, there are numerous anti-Franco Spanish periodicals.
2. Areilea has come to place a great deal of his trust in a newspaper cor -as-
pondent, Mariano Daranas Romero, who accompanied him to Argentina. Dcranas
is a former ABC correspondent in Paris and has been named Press Attac'1n at
the Embassy in Argentina, along with Jesus Rua.rte. One of the problems of
Daranas will be the reviving of Nuevo Cow. The Ambassador wishes -lo start
an Intense campaign of propaganda for the Franco regime, presenting it as
similar to, and in harmony with, the Peron regime. hyp gqMmo is to be
furnished with daily short-wave radio bulletins from Spain and abu daavt
pictorial materials to be sent air mail from Spain. The Spanish correapon-
dents in Argentina, M3iguelarena, Vicente Fuente, Gongora, Vega Santander,
etc., are to be required to contribute appropriate items, even though they
do not sign their names to the articles. There will be sufficient fm):" s for this
project, so that there will be no need to rely on subscriptions or donations
for support.
As a result of the visit of a Spanish military mission to Argentina, it is
suggested that an Argentine ml ita;ry mission will shortly be sent to
4. One of the principal advisers of Arei.lsa, and. one who is apparently mr; 3:
trusted, is Jose Ignacio Ramos, leader of the Falangists in Argentina. $:'Ad
reported to have been in the service of the Germans. The latter is is >.t1e-
liked by those, around Areilsa and Is feared by many of them.
5. An attache of the Embassy in Argentina, Merry del Val, is reported to .),c. a
personal friend of the Ambassador, but because the former is the official
representative in Argentina of the pretender, Don Juan, he has been a 1tical
of the Ambassador. Merry del Val is reported to be sending regular information
to Don Juan on the political situation, interviews, and happenings at the
Spanish Embassy.
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