SOVIET REACTIONS TO THE REPORTED PRIETO-ROBLES LONDON CONVERSATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04864A000100040010-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 20, 1998
• Content Type: IR

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Q UtUvIt:ei;y krieto issued a note stating that nobody kuad mentioned have; reached
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a l (.,Me rlnobles or even of 1wvinf, seen him, In the 'same note be ac'dted
that no details had been revealed of +Ile oUtcone o his conversations 'with bevin
. In London., Prom, this we can at le- st a oe, that. nothing food. can emerge fron the.
filthy bollix pot of compromise.
P. i4lien in Toulouse Prieto annauatced his plan. +.o abandon, the cause of the Spanish
Re ,u'a:li w~ n Isis t ttu' eons, the Spanish Co ca i -Part 'in public statempats and in its
Pr a;fic, r1~ .ouunoed tl.e Prieto mnaa euzvar':s as an attoLL.,t to break uptlhe unity of the
Oeraoor .t;:lc forces and to repl!Ecce the lemocratic eolu+,l.on for which the Spanish people
are si(:h irt~'; by a reactionary issue by which the essence of the Franco re vitae conzld?.
be tie*,?eL a.:rkd at she same time the -interests of British imperialism and ! Lee'ex.
caSoon It iaE c inne clear by his phi iatldez i e with the a3ronarchisto Ma Gil' Robles and by
his minis 1 r,rtal interviews in Paris and London that Indalecio Prieto airs the instrument
of certain chancelleries C;rhi,ch favored solving the infamous Franco problem _by keeping
M It waonaic;. teem that in this respect Prieto did not reach the mark. What laap?aened arras
?t1Tht t?, (mor tic voice of the S anish Colrain let Party made itself heard. I*
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pre4.ed t): a feelings of the great majority of the Spanish people and of +heresisAance.
It mnaral ed the Prieto. plan. It uax'ned the people a