Jorge Dezcallar

Valió la pena

INFORMATION

Jorge Dezcallar de Mazarredo wanted to be a diplomat when, as a child, he listened with fascination to the stories told by his uncle, the ambassador Guillermo Nadal. Once his dreams came true, his career took him to Poland, New York, Uruguay - where he lived a rocambolesco 23-F (coup d'état), Morocco -he was ambassador to Hassan II and Mohamed VI-, Rome -he occupied the Vatican embassy when John Paul II died and the conclave elected Benedict XVI- and Washington, where he once again lived history closely with Barack Obama's electoral victory.

The royal family, six Spanish presidents, ministers of all colors, characters such as Gaddafi, Carter, Sharon, Chávez or Arafat... Jorge Dezcallar met all of them. As director of the National Intelligence Center, the Spanish secret services, he was also a front-row witness to the March 11, 2004 attacks. And he has no qualms about recognizing that he was "marginalized, deceived and manipulated" during those days, with the apparent intention - of course never confessed - that the CNI would continue to defend the possible authorship of ETA before public opinion on the eve of the elections. A strategy not of the State, but of the party, which Dezcallar criticizes here from its unbribable independence.

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