(Politics) European intelligence ignores the authorship of the report that linked the Puigdemont environment with Russian agents

[Askor lml]

'The New York Times' published a report at the beginning of September that placed the independence movement as one of the movements that Russia would have used to destabilize Europe and cited European intelligence

Carles Puigdemont's environment maintained contacts with Russian agents to seek their support for the procés. It was the thesis of a report published in early September by The New York Times citing a European intelligence report that, according to the American newspaper, placed the Catalan independence movement as one of the political movements that Russia would have used to destabilize Europe. Now it has been known that the intelligence body of the European Union is not only not the author of the aforementioned report but that it is unaware of its authorship.

In a response from the high representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, on which the European intelligence body depends, to Puigdemont himself, Josep Borrell acknowledges that "the Intellicence and Situation Center (EU Intcen) is not the author of the report. mentioned in the New York Times article and does not know the authorship of the report in question. " In the same response, the high European representative admits that "the evaluations" of the European intelligence organization "are mainly based on the evaluations of the security and intelligence services of the member states."

After knowing the response of the EU Intcen, Puigdemont, in his Twitter account, has given special relevance to the fact that the Intellicence and Situation Center did not know the authorship of the report, which, in his opinion, means that "either it is an agency very unintelligent because he does not know who may be creating a confusion that ends up implicitly involving him in an international press report (and that should not be allowed. European intelligence is not interested in being involved in a dossier loaded with falsehoods, distortions and ridiculous conclusions that have already been exposed publicly. Not even that it seems that it knows anything or has nothing to do with it. "

The fact is that the information cited by The New York Times was based on a Civil Guard report sent in the framework of the Volhov operation that tried to reconstruct Puigdemont's rapprochement, and specifically by his right hand Josep Lluís Alay, to the Kremlin.

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