SPANISH CLASH WITH INSURGENTS IN SPANISH SAHARA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78S01932A000100120020-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2000
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: December 21, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT: SPANISH CLASH WITH INSURGENTS IN SPANISH SAHARA
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REF - RABAT 6168, 20 DEC 7411'
THE SPANISH EMBASSY IN RABAT HAS CONFIRMED PRESS REPORTS
THAT SPANISH POLICE AND MILITARY FORCES ENGAGED IN A SMALL
WITH INSURGENTS RECENTLY IN NOERTHERN SPANISH!
BUT BLOODY CLASH WI
SAHARA NEAR THE MAURITANIAN BORDER.
ACCORDING TO THE SPANISH, SIX INSURGENTS WERE KILLED AND
THREE WERE SERIOUSLY WOUNDED AND CAPTURED. SPANISH LOSSES
WERE ~,S KILLED ANDAIP- WOUNDED. THE CLASH ALLEGEDLY TOOK PLACE
WHEN A GROUP OF POLICE IN JEEPS WAS AMBUSHED NEAR THE TOWN
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