Declassified documents in Spain lift shadow over former king Juan Carlos in 1981 coup
For more than four decades, Spain’s failed military coup of 1981 has cast a lingering cloud over the reputation of the former king, Juan Carlos...
Spanish Intelligence Service (CNI)
Spain rejects claim of involvement in alleged plot to destabilise Venezuela
Spain has rejected allegations by Venezuela that it was involved in a plot to destabilise the government of the Latin American country, according to Spanish...
Spain’s Guardia Civil detain man for allegedly promoting IS terror online
Spain’s Guardia Civil police said on Tuesday that they had arrested a man on suspicion of carrying out ‘intensive efforts to encourage terrorism’ and who...
Spying dossier on Catalan president Pere Aragonès to be ‘partially declassified’
The Spanish cabinet has approved the ‘partial declassification’ of surveillance documentation concerning Catalan president Pere Aragonès [pictured with Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez], during 2020 when...
Two US embassy staff expelled by Spain over spying dispute
Spain has expelled two US embassy staff who managed to infiltrate the Spanish Intelligence Service (CNI) by bribing two of its officers, El País newspaper...
Spain arrests two intelligence agents who allegedly passed secrets to the USA
A Madrid judge has opened an investigation into two agents of the Spanish Intelligence Service (CNI) for an alleged leak of classified information to the United States,...
Spain to reform official secrets law following spying scandal
Spain is to ‘strengthen judicial control’ over its secret services in the wake of a scandal over the hacking of the mobile phones of top...
Spain’s spy chief sacked, following phone hacking scandal
The Spanish government sacked Paz Esteban, the director of its intelligence agency (CNI), on Tuesday, following the hacking of politicians’ mobile phones, including the devices of...
Head of Spain’s intelligence agency under spotlight over phone hacking scandal
Paz Esteban, the head of Spain’s Intelligence Service (CNI), has appeared before a parliamentary committee for questioning over phone hacking revelations, first referred to as ‘CatalanGate’....
Catalan government freezes ‘dialogue’ with Madrid due to espionage claims
The Catalan government has frozen relations and ‘dialogue’ with Spain’s central government following a report claiming that over 60 pro-independence Catalan politicians and activists have been the...
