Emilio Alonso Manglano

Emilio Alonso Manglano (April 13, 1926, Valencia, Spain – July 8, 2013, Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish military officer, who reached the rank of lieutenant general and was director of the Superior Center of Defense Information (CESID) between 1981 and 1995.[1][2]

Biography

He entered the General Military Academy on 24 July 1944, being promoted in the following years.[3] He graduated as number one of the 57th Army General Staff promotion. He participated in the Ifni War and was chief of staff of the Paratroopers Brigade. On 22 May 1981, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, he was appointed director of the CESID, by the Minister of Defense Alberto Oliart,[4] after the failed coup d'état of 23-f.[1][5]

He resigned from his post on June 15, 1995[6] as a result of the media scandal over illegal wiretapping by CESID, and was tried, initially convicted and finally acquitted of the crime of illegal interception of telephone conversations at the headquarters of Herri Batasuna, reported in 1998.[1][3]

He passed away on July 8, 2013, at the age of eighty-seven in Madrid as a result of cancer.[3][7]

On October 3, 2021, the newspaper ABC published the "Manglano Papers", a series of documents analyzed and researched by journalists Juan Fernández-Miranda and Javier Chicote, a seven-container archive containing hundreds of documents and agendas with information on Emilio Alonso Manglano and his period as director of Cesid between 1981 and 1995.[8][9] The entire archive was revealed in the biography of Lieutenant General Manglano, entitled "El jefe de los espías" (Roca, 2021).[10]

References
  1. G, M. (2013-07-08). "Muere Emilio Alonso Manglano". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  2. "Emilio Alonso Manglano | enciclopedia.cat". www.enciclopedia.cat. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  3. Internet, Unidad Editorial (2013-07-08). "Fallece Emilio Alonso Manglano, director de los servicios secretos de 1981 a 1995". www.elmundo.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  4. Oliart, Alberto (1999-06-12). "Una deuda". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  5. País, El (1981-05-23). "El teniente coronel Emilio Alonso Manglano, nombrado director del CESID". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  6. País, El (1995-06-16). "14 años al frente del servicio secreto". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  7. Confidencial, El (2013-07-08). "El exjefe del CESID, Emilio Alonso Manglano, fallece en Madrid". elconfidencial.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  8. "¿Qué son los 'papeles de Manglano'?". Diario ABC (in Spanish). 2021-10-05. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  9. "Emilio Alonso Manglano, el padre de la inteligencia moderna en España". Diario ABC (in Spanish). 2021-10-03. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
  10. Fernández-Miranda, Juan; Lerena, Javier Chicote (2021-10-14). El jefe de los espías: El archivo secreto de Emilio A. Manglano, Consejero del Rey y Director del CESID del 23F a la caída del felipismo (in Spanish). Roca Editorial de Libros. ISBN 978-84-18870-14-9.
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