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Secret agents force Spanish spy chief to quit
By Giles Tremlett, guardian.co.uk

Spain's spy chief, Alberto Saiz, has been forced to resign after his own agents turned on him, employing the tricks of the trade to overthrow their boss at the country's National Intelligence Centre (CNI).

In a constant flow of black propaganda over several months, disgruntled agents leaked photographs of Saiz's exotic fishing and hunting outings during business trips abroad and claimed that he even used the agency's divers to clean his swimming pool.

"Every time he goes abroad to work he takes his rifle or shotgun and takes days off to go hunting at the taxpayers' expense. Everything is free," an anonymous agency source told El Mundo newspaper.

Sources within the agency also alleged that night-time hunts for African pigs in Mali, fishing expeditions off Senegal, and underwater fishing in Mexico were all paid for with taxpayers' money. El Mundo reported Saiz used government funds to pay for at least six trips and sometimes flew in an air force jet.

by Magnifico on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 at 02:18:22 PM EST
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He resigned because the government refused to get rid of 50 CNI agents...

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Jul 3rd, 2009 at 02:23:07 PM EST
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