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CIA-RDP82-00457R008800090007-3
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Approved For Release 2000/06/08 : CIA-RDP82-00457R008800090007-3
CL.ASSIFIC 10N `Enrol, .- M.- OFF1C1.,L6 ONLY 25X1A
CEN e&N'` NTELLIGENCE AGENCY
IFRJTIO R?.
COUNTRY Spain/France
SUBJECT ' Status of Spanish Repub3.icans in France
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I. The status which exiled Spanish Republic na will have in France if the
succeeds in bringing Spain into closer touch with western defense. act3viti~s -
is becord:r g a matter of increasing concern to the exiles"> The Rpublicans
felt that with the completion of a Sparui eh--American accord, France. and GreJV.
3ritaip, forced by the pressure of American dollars, would reluctantly accept
Spain into the :';estern bloc. According to Jose 1ALLj ST:~R Gozalvo, President
of the faction of Izau i erda Republicana which supports the Government-in-
exile, the French government may be forced to refuse further hospitality to
the Spanish exile government, In that event, 13jiLLi .S ,R s..id, the exile
government would operate as a Junta Revo.iucionari.a Clandestina, eithor from
Paris or from sc;nie other 1+-.ore clesirat-la point in ?''Fr?nce.
2. B L?:a ;ST vK said that he wac viurk 7 ng with French Socialist Deputy .nd foxier
Labor 1.inister Daniel L I.YFR, who was ;ire wring a rc,;ort on the Spanish
question for the Foreign Relations Comiujittee of the Chbmber of Depuuties..
BA1 L%' `r11,kt sunu.aarized. the arguuents which he riiz!s e Lp#aasizing as follows:
a. Negotiations between tho U.S, -- kd T -UMO were politiceilly unwise,
b. In m icing a bilateral. Pact, with F.E' 40U, the U.S. would be making it
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virtually without opposition,
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ra tk.at;, in case of `war, it expected the USSR to reach the Pyrenees
c. If in fact the Russians should reach the Pyrenees without difficulty
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be the first to abandon the strug le.
If the Russi" i rmy should re..,ch the .f'routiers of Spai.ni the Spanish
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ez ~r oul d
eceive a.t as their liberator from the: 1-'Ui X0 regime.
The U,8,, ,f.r} suggesting the defensive capabilities of the Spanish army
as an excuse to treat with I''f, i,:.CO and -id the army is lowering the urrml
of the French nd British pecople.
its long as F sNC0 is in utterer, the Spanish i rrzy will be too wer.lt to.
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