BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: LT. COL. DIAZ DE VILLEGAS

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• Publication Date: October 10, 1944
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. DICZ :.lM)NATION NO A 40986
ORIGINAL PZEEPOF T NO. VT 999, 1000
DATE OF ! PORRT 5 September T.^a44
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Jose Diaz de Vi Togas j, the Direotor of Morocco and Co ion.ies,r,
in a Li.eute;ne.r.,t Co,.onel,, General Staff, although. his rank
in mentioned in the pr-ass as colonel o He is expecting to be
promoted to co)onol very ;loon,, lit was a faithful follower of
General. Count Jordana in everyting regarding Morocoo,q but he
knows nothing about Spanish Guinea, Rio de Oro, and Ifni,,
General Franc::o thinks highly of him, He is cultu.rod, +s. Mon-
%rchist, and an intimate friend or General Grgaz c He owes
his present posit=ion to his good relations with the High Com-
nuiss sioner o
Diaz do Villegt8 fought in aueseia with the Blue Divisi.one, of
which he was General Staff Commander, However, it is said
that he did not go of his own volition but as an expiationo
He does not sneak very highly of the Blue Division, appar4ntly
be ause th.e;rc~ were isonte things that went against his oon-
science. He had several quarrels with General Munoz Grande,
because he (T)i w de Villegas) said that tho Blue Division
was noi: a dt-~.ri iot but and "estraperlo" (black market) organ-
izaatioxa at the front, oubsidized by what was sent from Spain.
Hea resigned at than came time as the chief of the Blue Squadron,-,
Colonel Romero? and roturned a long time before the Blue
Divleion wms recalled from. Ruseta.
r? There ha-fe been reports that Diaz de Vil'legas writes in. the
ne?'i'I(;t 'P~:'1" GIC ?t'?t'ICT
E, "hen Colonel lleir;beder ues flimh Commissioner he sent labib on a
mission. to the 1`ast. 'urin5r the Civil "are itbil, acted, as IrannoIs
Consul in l eyrouth, but the i rench mistr.eatee him,r3120)
4;, Maldonado said that Colonel Fuste, who came to !."orocco as aide to General
Varela, was leaving for Spain, apparently to accept a position with a higher,
salary. (VT.=3025) N
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INTELLIGENCE DISSEMINATION NUMBER A-58381
COUNTRY Spain
SUBJECT Rumored Imprisonment of Potous9 Former
Interventor of Tangier
ORIGINAL RPT. VT-30109 3047
DATE OF INFO.
DATE OF RPT.
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29 May - 6 June 1945
19. July 1945
ORIGIN Tangier
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It is rumored that the former Interventor of Tangier9 Juan Potous9 is now in
jail in Spain. According to stories circulated in Tangier, Potous was found
to be in possession of 1300008000 pesetas in cash0 and9 since it was impossible
for him to have acquired such a large sum honestly during his short term of
office in Tangier, he had been prosecuted and imprisoned. (VT-3014)
Another source reported that Potous was said to be in Portugal, and that his
villa in Tangier was to be confiscated.
However, it is believed that this villa was secretly sold to the firm of J.
Salama y Cia. S.Ao (see A-561839 VT-27310 28450 28840 2832)0
According to a third source9 Potousm villa is now owned by a limited liability
company of which a certain Ruiz is the principal stockholder, (VT@3047)
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DATE OF RPT. 31 Jan.-28 Feb.1946
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1. Carlos i?otbol, 66 C allo u-Arrakia, Tangier, Is an
ass? stare o the i~rench sub-director of Police in
Tan;ier, i::a,jor Loris Artus. :'3otbol loft his post
as secretary in the police adrlin.istrction at the
tine of the Spanish occupation of the International
Zone. He bought the Tingus Cafe in the Soco Chico
section of Tangier, and operated it without much
profit until 1942. ,.hen Vichy fell, he went to
Casablanca and worked for a tine at the local Postal
a. ministration. In October lc.45, Zotbol r -turned
to Tangier and assumed his present positioi_ at
police headquarters. Ile is_ a protege of, Joseph
Lassan*in the latter's capacity as Portuguese
delegate in the Legislative iissei bly.
2. Jose BM Lo, Spanlsh busii)ess Tian, first cone to
orocco ror.. Spain in 1:0'24 as a protege of General
Sanjurjo wys~eri the latter was Spanish hip_,I# Co:rlruissioner.
:'ocauso of hIs connection with the General, ..ru jo
secured authority to place various Government coi.tracts
and soon beeai:!e very wealthy. be is a close friend
of 'T'oms Garcia ia'? ;iaeras, Spanish Director of e-'conomic
Affairs in the Spanish Zone. `ru o Is also in close
touch with Isaac and Samuel Salado and Isaac :.endrao,
prominent Tangier business men..
3. I-,oses Sananos Pinto, a member of the Communist :'arty
In ann er, c aim to Tangier fro. I,rgeiitirn a'.out
t:rent: years w -o. I:o was arrested for snr?-adirl
Gor un?st Proja=panda, ILut was roleased throi.:i: tk.e
ii,tercossiorl of the Consul Ce,,orol of j~rgeritiria.
1-e owns the . or Canto ,scuchado, a r:iaetixig Place
f or Com:_3uniats.
For further i.,forrnatio_, condo rning Iiasson, s-,-'e roport
A-66348, VT-3063.
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4. Abdelaziz Diuri, a r:iember of the ivatiaa.alist I.1oslem
Party In i oz, Has just boon released from prison in
Tetuan and has been brought to Tangier by the
Spanish authorities. Diuri was arrester: in 1939 for
political reasons and was taken before the French
I%.ilitary Tribunal in I- oz,. He was condemned to two
years' imprisonment, expulsion from Ieoz for twenty
years and fined 20,000 francs. After serving a one-
year prison tern he was released bye the Gerr:?an Italian
Armistice Commission who, L. 1940, sent. hir.: to Italy.
Ile was there dreftod into the Italian li=my. '.-hen
I: ussolini's Government fell, l:iuri left the Army and
went to Genoa. -Vlaen the British and Amoricans arrived
in Genoa, he left :Trance, evcapin' to Algeciras, Spain
and then to Fez. The krenclr authorities '.r1 loz
rraaited to arrest him again, but he esca,)ecl and went
to Villa Sanjurjo, Spanish i.orooco. '%lhile there he
was arrested b,- the 5pai:ish authorities because he
had no identification papers. After serving oi.e
!:7OL,th in priso:, at Villa Sanj,xrjo, the 5anisn
authorities sent hire to the rrrison at Tetua,.. After
remaining there for four months, the Spanish
authorities released him and sent I_in to Tangier.
He is a very good -fr3e.nd of j.-ohamed el-L alclcl al-
hasiri, .1,9ader of "i.'Aoroccan Unity".
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INTELLIGENCE DISSEMINATION
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';io;ranhical Information
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DATE OF INFO.
see text
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1. i ntonio Pena lrellana, Spanish Republican Consul at
:Mexico City, 1-ins returned to Tan,ior and is livid;
at 106 Calla Playa. Pona was expelled fro::! Casablanca
in 1941 by the Vichy Goverrmnerit. He had been liviri
in Casablanca as a refugee fr. n Spain.
2. ' Pena rtes born In anepior and is 41 years old..':. 1"Q has
a brother-in-law in London an(-' a brother, Lannon,
Peedin;;,1 n,r lerid. The brother is a Spaiii& announcer
for the British JVoadcasUIz, Coripariv. His sister is
Married to the former Spanish Republican Consul
General at London, Vicente Alvarez uyllaa.
3. Pena was interned in a concentration camp in irsnce
followirar the Spanish Civil ar. Ise is anti-Yrench,
and lass Communist than he was at one tire. According
to Pons's statements, he is pro-z'-nerican and >ritish.
4. Pens received word recently fran the Spanish Consul
Ierxorsl in Tan-ior, Cristobal del Castillo, that
he could. return t c) Spa in at any time he chose to rho
so. Pens stated that he would not return to Spain
because he feared the possible consor,,uence.
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DISTRIBUTED 31 October 1944 DIS^?_MINA T ION No. .A 42838
COUNTRY Spanish Morocco and Pan4er ORIGINAL REPORT NO. VT-1061, 1062
oU:DjzCr 1. Shipment of;,,afar Mate. DATE OF REPORT 22 September 1944
2. Ship Activte-tz EVALUATION See below
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B-3 1. Three open railway cars and one closed car carrying
Artillery soldiers and eight mortars of German origin,
/ six anti ,tank guns of Italian origin, and forty-'three
cases of munitions arrived in Tangier on the night train
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on 17 September. On the following morning the mortars
and guns were taken to the port to be put on the tug=boat
SANTA TNBJ SA, which arrived that afternoon. On the morn-
. ing of 19 September, the material was unloaded from 'the
railway cars while the angn were waiting for the right tide
before putting it on board the vessel, The material was
destined for the Cuerpo de Maestraenza at Ceuta. (VT.1061)
C-3 2. Another source reports that the SANTA TERESA left the port
of Tan ier for Ceuta on 19 September carrying sixteen field
guns, 1,000 Hauser rifles, sixty cases of ammunition marked
EIemnlosiv ware" (sic) and several anti-aircraft guns. This
material came from the 59th Infaztr rRegiment
of the Tangier
,
region. (VT-1062)
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3e The coastal survey vessel ALCAZAR took to sea to watch
certain English launches or torpedo boats which were stop-
ping Spanish. trawlers at sea and examining their food and
fuel supplies, (V'T=1061)
part of thA am3 ~:hinme t. The nxerrno c papit owe-Santa
ing at Ceuta? the Santa Teresa probably could
more than one trip from Tangier to Ceuta on th
for loading at Tangier and time had to be allow
OSS Tashin,ton Comments Inasmuch as the tide had
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DISSEhUNATION NO
A 44500
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ORIGINAL REPORT No
VT 1095
SUBJECT
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intorest in Sale of Margarine
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DAi11 OF REPORT 2 October 1944
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Drug Traffic Between Germany
and Spanish Aorooco
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1. Bulaix .3aeza recently sent a telegram to a certain Au;usto
Atalaya, at Hotel Asturias, Madrid, to see whether the latter
could place a consignment of margarine for him in MM4drid. A
sample of margarine was sent to Luis Barborto, an intimate
friend of Bulaix, to be delivered to Atalaya.
2. Atalaya was one of the most bloodthirsty and criminal Falangists
I mown in Tetuan during the Spanish Civil War. He himself has
boastod of killing; numerous Masons who were Spanish Loftists,in
Tetuan.
3. Barberto, chief of. the Iberia airline in Tetuan, also has de-
dicated himself to the persecution of Masons. Furthermore,
he has availed himself of his position to transfer drugs from
Germany to Spanish Morocco and Tangier, in connivance with
the pilots of this airline.
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DISSEMINATION NO.
A-44162
COUNTRY
Spanish Morocco
ORIGINAL REPORT NO.
VT-2027
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1. aelations Between Iberia
Airline and. the Germans
2. German Interest in European-
South American Airline
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14 October 1944
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There is said to be a clear tendency or. the part of Spanish
officials to break off their relations with the Germans who
controlled the Iberia company and with others who were
associated with them in manning international airlines and
lines inside Spain.
The personnel of Iberia are still very ,pro-German, and the
Germans do not cease to give large sums of money to maintain
this spirit. It is insisted that, while the war lasts, no-
thing can stop the Iberia personnel from contacting German
agents who still are implaAted firmly in Spain, the Spanish
colonies, and Morocco.
It is reported that Iberia is going to increase airlines
inside Swain. Later, a Spanish commission will leave for
South America, especially Argentina and Chile, whence they
hope to return with a contract for the exploitation of air-
linos between Europe and South America, from which Spain will
benefit. German contacts in Portugal and Argentina are work-
ing to establish intornational airlines and liaison, especially
batieca these two countries. This project is of great in-
terest to the Germans.
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COUNTRY Spanish :.Iorocco ORIGINAL REPORT NO. VT 2207--pt
SUE)acCT S. ;gling of Livestock from. DATE OF REPORT 19 December 1944
- French : orocco EVALUATION 13-3
ORIGIN Tangier TIEATRE
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