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1973 April 2, 07:35 (Monday)


FM AMEMBASSY YAOUNDE
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 345
AMEMBASSY MADRID
INFO AMEMBASSY ACCRA


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E. O. 11652: N/ A
TAGS: CASC, PFOR, EG, GH ( EXTRADITION)
SUBJECT: EXTRADITION: ADDOQUAY AND ENID ALLOTEY

REF: ACCRA 1961 ( BEING REPEATED MADRID)

1. EMBASSY EXPECTS TO SEND OFFICERS TO SANTA ISABEL EARLY
TUESDAY APRIL 3 WHO WILL CONFIRM TO GOEG INFORMATION ABOUT ARREST
AND EXTRADITION REQUEST FOR ALLOTEYS ALREADY GIVEN TO PERMREP
ESONO.
THEY WILL LEAVE AIDE MEMOIRE ( TEXT BEING REPEATED SEPTEL)
AND MAKE STRONG EFFORT URGE GOEG TO GET IN TOUCH WITH GOG TO
INSURE LATTER UNDERSTANDS EG INTEREST. BELIEVE HOWEVER,
THAT DEPT. AND MADRID SHOULD ALSO URGE SAME ACTION ON AMBASSADOR
ESONO AND ATTORNEYS EGGE AND GARCIA TREVIJANO, WHO MAY BETTER
UNDERSTAND SITUATION IN ACCRA.


La embajada espera enviar oficiales a Santa Isabel el martes 3 de abril quienes confirmaran al Gobierno de Guinea Ecuatorial la informacion sobre el arresto y solicitud de extradicion de los Alloteys ya dada al Primer Ministro Esono.

Dejarán una memoria ayuda (el texto sera repetido) y haran un gran esfuerzo con el fin de impulsar el contacto entre el Gobierno de Guinea Ecuatorial y el Gobierno de Ghana con el objeto de asegurar los intereses de Guinea Ecuatorial. Creemos sin embargo que el departamento y Madrid deberian tambien urgir la misma accion sobre el embajador Esono y los abogados de Guinea Ecuatorial y Garcia Trevijano, quien puede ayudar a comprender mejor la situacion en Accra.


2. WILL ASSUME DEPT. APPROVAL OF AIDE MEMOIRE UNLESS ADVISED
OTHERWISE BY IMMEDIATE MESSAGE SENT FROM DEPARTMENT BY
COB TODAY, APRIL 2.
MOORE


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1976 October 5, 13:50 (Tuesday)


FM AMEMBASSY MADRID
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 7423
INFO AMEMBASSY LAGOS PRIORITY
AMEMBASSY YOUNDE PRIORITY

C O N F I D E N T I A L MADRID 7596

E.O.11652: XGDS-1
TAGS: PFOR, EG, SP, US
SUBJECT: GOS TO LIFT BAN ON PRESS COVERAGE OF EQUATORIAL GUINEA,
USG VIEWS SOUGHT ON IMPORTANCE OF CONTINUED SPANISH PRESENCE:
SPAIN APPARENTLY ACCEPTED AS PROTECTING POWER FOR US INTERESTES.


Asunto: El levantamiento de la materia reservada sobre Guinea.
La continuidad de la presencia española.
España aparentemente acepta proteger los intereses estadounidenses


1. FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFICIAL IN CHARGE OF SUB SAHARAN AFRICA
(CASSINELLO) TOLD EMBOFF OCT 4 THAT HE AND MINISTRY PROTOCOL
CHIEF PAN DE SORALUCE HAD JUST RETURNED FROM EQUATORIAL
GUINEA WHERE THEY HAD GONE TO INFORM PRESIDENT MACIAS OF GOS
DECISION TO LIFT BAN ON DISCUSSION OF EG IN SPANISH PRESS.
(CASSINELLO LATER SPECIFIED THAT BAN WOULD BE LIFTED BEFORE
END OF OCTOBER.) CASSINELLO SAID MACIAS REACTED VERY STRONGLY,
WARNING THAT HE WOULD NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR POSSIBLE CONSEQ-
QUENCES IN EG AND TALKING AT ONE POINT OF POSSIBLE BREAK IN
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS.

2. MACIAS WAS, CASSINELLO CONTINUED, WUITE FRANK ABOUT HIS
CONCERN THAT PRESS IN NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES, WITH WHICH HE
HAS LONGSTANDING DIFFICULTIES (APPARENTLY HE WAS PARTICULARLY
WORRIED ABOUT NIGERIA AND HEUNE AFRIQUE), WOULD PICK UP
MATERIAL AND USE T TO HIS DETRIMENT. IN SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES,
MACIAS REPORTEDLY SAID, FAILURE ON HIS PART TO RESPOND WOULD
RESULT IN LOSS OF FACE.
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3. CASSINELLO SAID SPANISH OFFICIALS WERE FIRM WITH MACIAS
THAT IN VIEW OF CHANGES GOING ON IN SPAIN GOS WAS IN NO
POSITION TO RESISR SPANISH PRESS PRESSURES TO LIFT BAN, AND
THAT AS CHIEF OF STATE MACIAS COULD NOT SIMPLY ABSOLVE HIMSELF OF
RESPONSIBILITY FOR OCCURRENCES IN HIS TERRIROTY. (COMMENT:
DESPITE REPORTED FIRM LINE, IT WAS CLEAR THAT SPANISH WERE
WORRIED BY MACIAS THREATS SEE PARA 5 BELOW.)

4. TO EMBOFF'S QUERY CASSINELLO SAID PRESS PRESSURES WERE
REQL, AND AIMED AT TWO TARGETS, FINANCIAL DEALINGS WITH EG
DURING FRANCO REGIME (AS DEPT AWARE, CARRERRO BLANCO WAS
LONG ALLEGED REASON FOR GOS SUBSIDY OF EG CROPS). AND GARCIA
TRAVIJANO, MILLIONAIRE LEFTIST POLITICAIAN WHO HAS PLAYED
THE COMMUNISTS GAME HERE. AND WHOM CASSINELLLO LABLED AS
MACIAS MAN IN MADRID. IN THIS LATTER CASE, SPANISH SOCIALIST
(PSOE) LEADER ENRIQUE MUGICA TOLD US THE GOS HAD BRIEFED THEM
IN ADVANCE OF THIS MISSION TO MACIAS, AND THAT THE PSOE AND THE
SPANISH PRESS HAD THE DOSSIER ON GARICA TREVIJANOJS SHADY
DEALINGS WITH EG AND WERE JUST WAITING FOR THE PRESS BAN TO
BE LIFTEDM



A la consulta de EMBOFF Cassinello dijo que las presiones de prensa eran relevantes, y apuntó a dos objetivos, los acuerdos financieros firmados con Guinea Ecuatorial durante el régimen franquista (CARRERO BLANCO fue el causante de los subsidios a los cultivos en Guinea Ecuatorial segun el Gobierno de los States) y GARCIA TREVIJANO, un politico izquierdista millonario que le ha bailado el agua a los comunistas en este asunto y a quien CASSINELLO considera el hombre de MACIAS en Madrid. En ultimo caso Enrique Mugica lider socialista español (PSOE) nos comento que el Gobierno de los States les había informado antes de esta mision a MACIAS, y que el PSOE y la prensa española tenian un dossier sombrio sobre GARCIA TREVIJANO acerca de los tratos que mantuvo con Guinea Ecuatorial y solo estaban esperando que la materia reservada desapareciese.



5. CASSINELLO ALSO SAID HE WOULD APPRECIATE EFFORT TO FIND
OUT WHAT STRATEGIC OR OTHER IMPORTANCE USG PLACED ON
CONTINUED SPANISH PRESENCE IN EG. HE ALSO SAID HE HAD NOT TALKED
WITH HIS SUPERIORS ABOUT PUTTING THE QUESTION, BUT HE DECLINED EMBOFF
OFFER TO DELAY TRANSMITTING THE QUESTION UNTIL IT HAD BEEN
CLEARED.

6. CASSINELLO ALSO SAID THAT DURING CONVERSATION, MACIAS
HAD CALLED SPAIN PROTECTING POWER FOR US IN EG, AND HAD RAIDES
PROBLEM OF US CITIZENS WHO HAD FAILED TO PAY FOR SHIPLOAD
OF CACAO (CASSINELLO SAID HE WOULD ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE FURTHER
INFORMATION LATER SO WE COULD LOOK INTO IT.) CASSINELLO
SAID HE REFRAINED FROM POINTING OUT TO MACIAS THAT EG GOVT
HAD NEVER RESPONDED TO SPANISH DIPLOMATIC NOTES PROPOSING
SAPIN AS PROTECTING POWER. AND ADDED THAT HE FELT WE NOW
HAD AUTHORITATIVE WORD. HE SAID HE WOULD PROBABLY SEND
US NOTE ON QUESTION OF PROTECTION OF INTERESTS WITHIN A
FEW DAYS.

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7. COMMENT: WE WOULD OF COURSE APPRECIATE KNOWING WHAT
RESPONSE WE SHOULD MAKE TO THE QUERY REPORTED IN PARA 5
FROM PERSPECTIVE OF GOS:USG RELATIONS AND OF US INTERESTS
IN SPAIN, IT SEEMS TO US THAT AN ANSWER LIMITED TO
EXPRESSION OF UNDERSTANDING OF GOS PROBLEM IN EG WOULD BE
BEST. DECLARATION OF USG RECONGNITION OF UTILITY OF SPANISH
PRESENCE IN EG TO WESTERN INTERESTS WOULD SUBSQUENTLY,
AS CASSINELLO FORTHRIGHTLY MADE CLEAR, STIMULATE SPANISH
REQUESTS (S) FOR US CONTRIBUTION, AND ADDITIONALLY MIGHT
COME TO BE USED BY GOS AS BARGAINING CHIP (SPAIN SINGLEHANDEDLY
BEARING BURDEN OF WESTERN INTERSTTS IN EG) AND OR AS ALLEGED
GROUNDS FOR GOS ACTIONS WE MIGHT NOT WANT TO SEE TAKEN FOR
FOR EXAMPLE RE IMPOSITION OF PRESS BAN IN ORDER TO MOLIFY MACIAS
INTO PERMITTING CONTINUED SPANISH PRESENCE. THIS WOULD
SHIFT TO US THE ONUS FOR ACTION CONTRARY TO FREEDOM OF PRESS
AND IN ANY CASE WE HAVE NO WISH TO SEE GARCIA TREVIJANO
SPARED.



Comentario: Por supuesto nos agrada saber que la respuesta que debemos hacer a la pregunta del informe para 5 desde la prespectiva del Gobierno de los States: Para las relaciones del Gobierno de Estados Unidos y de los intereses estadounidenses en España nos parece que una respuesta limitada a la comprension del problema en Guinea Ecuatorial seria probablemente lo mejor.

La declaracion del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos de la utilidad de la presencia española en Guinea Ecuatorial y consecuentemente de los intereses del mundo occidental como Cassinello lo ha dejado meridianamente claro, estimular las peticiones españolas de ayuda estadounidense, y ademas se podia utilizar esto por el Gobierno de los States como un comodin en una negociacion ( España sin ayuda y con la carga de la defensa de los intereses occidentales en Guinea Ecuatorial) y como pretesto de acciones que el Gobierno de los States no desee ver, por ejemplo la reimposicion de la materia reservada para permitir la continuidad de la presencia española puesto que seria contrario a la libertad de prensa y en cualquier caso no tenemos ningún deseo de ver afectada la situacion de GARCIA TREVIJANO.



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