FRANCO-MONARCHIST RELATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008300160011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: August 8, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION 6, ~~jcu..~,l c i s ~-.r,Y
CENTRA TELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Swain.
SUBJECT nLA :CO-rlonarchist Relations
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T =1C0 told a neetin ; of the Council of 11inisters In late June that he would nGsae
Aeu.stin =L107- Grnndes to be his successor as regent of Spain, according to Alberto
W TIN Artajo. At a later neetin, of the Council of Ministers on 29 June FBA T O
reportedly s id that Don Juan had. to be eliminated as a candidate to the throne
becaaze of I:is relations with leftist elements. .PTC0 advocated that Don Juan's
25X1 X son be placed on the throne and that a re,rency be estabi ished. 1
I-MRTIlT Artajo believed that FRA:~1CO was nreoccuried over the problem of succession
as he was to un er ;o an operation for hemorrhages of the g^1.l bladder and the
areas prior to 20 Ser,ter_iber 1951.
25X1 X 3- a number of unnamed Spanish generals held three secret meet-
ings prior to 5 July. During the last meeting they 'prepared a document to be
sent to FStATCQ in which they outlined the nroblens facing the repine and their
25X1Xsolutions. The only two 7enerals ho re p c e docuttent were flUITOZ
arande s and Pablo VLARTI1`I A].onso. , however, that this was
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4. Monarchist representatives in Ftnce told Trifon
ZZ San Jose, leader of the Partido Socialist- Obrero .snanoi, that -rout of
unn~.=aed Spanish generals had delivered an u' ti natu a to FiU CO stating- that unless
the United States sent substantial cuantities of aid to Sna.1n before Sentenber
they would be forced to talze drastic measures. Trifon (X)I1:Z reportedly net seven
tiLies with the monarchist representatives during a short period prior to 20 July.
5. Jose T...~klUUtZ Lopez r.onrirchist lender inside S atn, re-?ortedly w,:s seeing
church functionaries, generals, -..nd irnorta:nt financiers in early July. 25X1 A
25X1A activity was ,.ri. indication th,.t Ii~& Z had notj jaiven up his n ans
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an indication that a military uprising .against F ZICO was in the offing.
DATE DISTR. 8 4tugust 1951
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