Posted on 06/27/2008 8:13:35 AM PDT by J Aguilar
Dezcallar Endorsed the Information Ana Palacio Gave to the UN on 3/11
A day after the bloody attacks of 3/11, the then Secretary of State [foreign minister Ana Palacio] obtained from the UN a clear condemnation against ETA. According to what reveals this Thursday EL MUNDO newspaper, before and after undertaking this mission, Ana Palacio confirmed in multiple opportunities that information with the director of the CNI, Jorge Dezcallar. In all the calls, the top person in charge of Spanish intelligence assured that the data on the ETA responsibility was truthful. Now, the one who was appointed by Aznar in 2001 [as chief of the intelligence], receives a new prize from the socialist Government: ambassador in the USA.
(Libertad Digital) Fernando Múgica indicates in EL MUNDO that on March 12th, a day after the massacre, Dezcallar told to Ana Palacio that the CNI practically discarded the participation of the Islamists in the attacks, leaning towards ETA. In fact, the own Dezcallar himself was opposed to the data coming from the Police, since those networks of Islamists investigated by them were already controlled by the CNI.
According to the information, the finding of the Kangoo [van] was another point that displaced the top member of the Spanish intelligence, since he saw ridiculous that some terrorists - according to what the sentence states - left that kind of evidence in a van. Evidence that, in addition, could lead to their arrest. When he was asked about the findings, Dezcallar tried to keep out of the issue saying the he had known that from the media.
Besides the consultations that Palacio did to Dezcallar, she also had communications with the delegation of the USA [at the UN], headed by Colin Powell, as well as with the then advisor of Security, Condoleezza Rice. These assured to her that their government did not have data on the preparation of the attack by Al Qaeda. For that reason, the minister was convinced, the countries of the Security Council approved the resolution, not only because of her work, but because each of them had secret information.
Múgica indicates in his article that Ana Palacio was herself forced to call Dezcallar again in the middle of the Spanish night, since The Wall Street Journal, whose director the minister knew, preferred to avoid the publication of an article signed by her, because they had some data on the participation of Islamic terrorism. In that communication, he told her again that although he could not discard any possibility, the CNI aimed at ETA.
In the commission of investigation created by the Congress, Dezcallar seemed to forget many of the things that happened those terrible days and he even said that the ETA lead was vanishing before the appearance of the evidences that he himself said that were not clear. Ana Palacio told later that the data the government had received were "untruthful and incomplete".
In spite of all this, Dezcallar was appointed shortly after ambassador of Spain before the Vatican. Now, more than four years after the attacks, the Government of Rodriguez Zapatero awards him again with what it is probably the most important embassy for any country: the one in Washington DC.
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Mr. Dezcallar hasn't explained yet either the murders of seven CNI agents that volunteered for service in Iraq, just three months before 3/11.
On how profitable is to be a traitor in Spain.
We have faced a similar circumstance here. Members of CIA have buried information, falsified information, and used both in an effort to bring down an American president in office. It didn’t work, but then again, they haven’t given up yet either.
What a reality check from those stories of spies portrayed in movies!
Wow! This is incriminating. After all, if the past government was doing the cover-up, why keep giving their supposedly loyal spy chief plum posts.
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