Thursday May 21st, 2009 / 13h29
MADRID (AFP)--Cuba has expelled Spanish intelligence agents who were
tracking members of the Basque separatist group ETA on the communist
island, a Spanish newspaper said Thursday.
The daily El Mundo said a team of agents was sent to Cuba to observe ETA
members living on the island. They were there only "a few days" when the
authorities asked them to leave last Friday, the paper said.
"The main problem was that no one had informed Cuba of their arrival"
and the agents had to work alongside a team of Spain's CNI national
intelligence agency which was already in place there in agreement with
Havana, it said.
Neither the Spanish Defense Ministry, which oversees the CNI, nor the
Foreign Ministry would comment on the report.
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos confirmed to reporters
during a visit to Bosnia that some agents had left the island, but that
it was part of a routine "changeover" of personnel and wouldn't affect
relations between the two countries.
ETA has killed 825 people in Spain in its 41-year campaign of bombings
and shootings for an independent Basque homeland in parts of northern
Spain and southwestern France.
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actualité (22 May 2009)
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