{"id":54687,"date":"2024-01-31T07:01:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T06:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=54687"},"modified":"2025-01-31T00:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T23:46:00","slug":"the-russian-plot-in-spain-and-the-outside-noise-will-langley-do-what-brussels-does-not-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/31\/the-russian-plot-in-spain-and-the-outside-noise-will-langley-do-what-brussels-does-not-do\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian plot in Spain and the outside noise: Will Langley do what Brussels does not do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that a judge opens the door to accusing Puigdemont of treason could end up having many more consequences than imagined.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/29\/what-sanchez-already-knew-about-the-russian-plot-when-he-offered-amnesty-to-puigdemont\/\">What S\u00e1nchez already knew about the Russian plot when he offered amnesty to Puigdemont<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/19\/pedro-sanchez-offers-putin-via-waterloo-the-key-to-decide-the-fate-of-spain\/\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez offers Putin, via Waterloo, the key to decide the fate of Spain<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>A government of a NATO country trying to hide a Russian plot<\/big><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/29\/what-sanchez-already-knew-about-the-russian-plot-when-he-offered-amnesty-to-puigdemont\/\">The judicial setback known this Monday<\/a> against S\u00e1nchez's plans, which sought to grant a broad amnesty to his parliamentary allies, leaving unpunished the crimes committed in <strong>the separatist coup of October 2017<\/strong>, gave rise yesterday to a vote in which Junts, Puigdemont's party, voted against its own amnesty law as it <strong>was not certain that it would cover an accusation of treason<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This accusation is based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/05\/12\/russias-support-for-separatism-in-spain-and-the-support-of-spanish-separatists-for-russia\/\">the contacts between the Kremlin and the authors of the separatist coup in Catalonia<\/a>, contacts known for years and which <strong>did not prevent Pedro S\u00e1nchez from promising impunity to his partners in exchange for their support for his re-election.<\/strong> An impunity that would have gone so far as to prevent judges from continuing to investigate <strong>a Russian plot to destabilize one of the largest countries in the European Union<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><big>The attention that this issue is already receiving in other countries<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This case has begun to generate more and more noise abroad, attracting the attention of the media in other countries. After hearing about this judicial decision in Spain, <strong>the news has attracted the attention of the media from<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Hf5DV\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/bAfzi\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/CgeZl\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Poland<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/vY5Av\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Kingdom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/X4Jxj\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Germany<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/GqS17\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Italy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/INaEL\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Q0fg4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netherlands<\/a>. When news about Russian interference in Spain attracts so much international media attention, <strong>inevitably the intelligence services of other countries will already be aware<\/strong> that Russia has tried to destabilize a NATO country as important as Spain and <strong>Pedro S\u00e1nchez was trying to cover up this Russian plot with an amnesty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><big>US intelligence indicates a new Russian network in Catalonia<\/big><\/p>\n<p>With the great resonance of this case abroad, the inevitable begins to happen. Yesterday, the Spanish newspaper Abc announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/SmUAf#selection-1365.0-1365.73\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US intelligence has revealed a new Russian interference network with presence in Catalonia<\/a>. According to an American report, this network would have people in Barcelona and other Spanish cities and would be dedicated to <em>\"<strong>the proliferation of disinformation and propaganda to promote Russia's foreign influence objectives<\/strong>\".<\/em > We know this only 24 hours after that crucial judicial decision that yesterday put an end to the amnesty law agreed upon by the socialists and the separatists.<\/p>\n<p><big>Will information about this Russian plot begin to flow from other intelligence services?<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, <strong>the allied intelligence services are not going to remain passive in the face of such serious events<\/strong>. It is not only the rule of law in Spain that is in danger, something that is already very serious. <strong>Now the national security of Spain and the security of our European allies is also at risk<\/strong>, given the threat of a destabilization attempt as serious as the attempt to break the national unity of a NATO country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/29\/what-sanchez-already-knew-about-the-russian-plot-when-he-offered-amnesty-to-puigdemont\/\">offering astronomical sums of money and even thousands of Russian soldiers<\/a> to the Catalan separatists.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the National Intelligence Center (CNI) of Spain, <strong>it is very possible that other allied intelligence services have information about the Russian plot in Catalonia<\/strong> and about its connections abroad. It could soon become an increasingly present issue in the media. Without going any further, this Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/kMrcg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Latvian MEP allied with Catalan separatism was discovered as a Russian agent<\/a>, in an investigation published by The Insider magazine, the Estonian newspaper Delfi, the investigative journalism center Re:Baltica (based in Latvia) and the Swedish newspaper Expressen.<\/p>\n<p><big>A risk that the Atlantic Alliance cannot take<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, soon, <strong>Langley (where the CIA headquarters is located) could end up doing what Brussels has not done:<\/strong> taking seriously the threat posed by the impunity pact between S\u00e1nchez and his separatist allies , in turn allies of Putin. Let's think that <strong>The US has a military presence in Spain, in the bases of Mor\u00f3n and Rota<\/strong>, and in the latter it has its famous anti-missile shield located. <strong>Spain has a strategic position in Europe.<\/strong> The Atlantic Alliance cannot take the risk of having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/08\/19\/pedro-sanchez-offers-putin-via-waterloo-the-key-to-decide-the-fate-of-spain\/\">Moscow controlling Spain via Waterloo, as I already warned last summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/static\/1c53e0cef648763cba60ad9ecdcf2a33\/2017-Q3-Q4-CIA-OPCL-Semi-Annual-Report.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CIA.gov<\/a>. The headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Langley, Virginia.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that a judge opens the door to accusing Puigdemont of treason could end up having many more consequences than imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[9498,10703,2587,18211,2721,10731,11462],"class_list":["post-54687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-carles-puigdemont","tag-catalonia","tag-central-intelligence-agency-cia","tag-coup-detat-of-2017-in-catalonia","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-russia","tag-spain"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 19:54:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}