New – and unlikely – allegations of CIA links to North Korean embassy attack in Madrid by JennaMC_Laugh
When a bleeding woman ran down a street in a leafy suburb of Madrid, pointing at the nearby North Korean embassy and screaming about masked invaders, local police at first thought she was crazy. Now they suspect the mysteries of that day are linked to the CIA, report Spanish media outlets El Confidencial and El Pais.
The strange saga is confounding experts on intelligence and diplomacy across the U.S., Europe and North Korea about what the motivation behind the intrusion may have been — many casting doubt that the U.S. spy agency would get mixed up in such a potentially thorny diplomatic snarl in Spain. “The agency sometimes makes mistakes and I am sure the Trump administration has told them to not feel encumbered by the usual constraints when it comes to [North Korea,]” continued Nixon in an email. “But this sounds kind of ridiculous.
If in fact there was CIA involvement in the break-in, it would not have been a simple act of espionage, according to those familiar with covert operations. Among other complexities are the legal authorities necessary to conduct such a covert operation in Spain. In places like Madrid, the unit will often use antennas or other kinds of interception technology disguised on the roof or outside of the U.S. embassy or consulate in the country. That interception technology is capable of picking up cell phone and radio frequencies “within a one hundred mile radius,” according to intelligence historian Matthew Aid.
Gause also argues that potential mistrust between the United States and Europe could impact how events have unfolded—including laying of blame. Conducting such a brazen operation in Spain could lead to severe consequences. For example, when CIA officials abducted Abu Omar off a public street in Milan in 2003 as a part of the agency’s rendition program, Italian authorities convicted 26 Americans in absentia. De Sousa later told The Guardian that U.S. administration officials “enjoying their immunity” were really the ones to blame for the events, and many at the time worried it had seriously damaged transatlantic relations.
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