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Europe
Spain claims arrest of double agent
2007-07-24
Spain has arrested a former intelligence agent on suspicion of spying for another country, the head of Spanish intelligence said.

While working for Spanish intelligence, this person sold sensitive information to that country, Alberto Saiz told a news conference.

Saiz did not identify the country, but Cadena Ser radio said it was Russia.
Saiz did not identify the country, but Cadena Ser radio said it was Russia. If true, the revelation could become another point of contention between Western Europe and the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin, which is already locked in a dispute with Britain over the poisoning death in London of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.

Saiz, head of Spain's National Intelligence Center, called the case unprecedented for the Spanish intelligence services. He said the former Spanish agent was arrested on Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. The state-run news agency Efe identified him as Roberto Flores Garcia.

Saiz said the agent had sold classified information - dozens of identities of agents and data on Spanish procedures, internal structures and counterintelligence activities - to a foreign country from December 2001 until February 2004.

Saiz gave assurances that neither the national security of Spain nor that of NATO or the European Union had been compromised. He said he ordered an investigation in July 2005 and a report came back to prosecutors only three weeks ago.
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