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Viewing cable 08MADRID1235, SPAIN: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING RESULTS FOR SOCOM

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08MADRID1235 2008-11-25 16:12 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Madrid 
VZCZCXYZ0013
PP RUEHWEB

DE RUEHMD #1235 3301612
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 251612Z NOV 08
FM AMEMBASSY MADRID
TO RUCQVAB/HQ USSOCOM INTEL OPS CEN MACDILL AFB FL PRIORITY
INFO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 5628
RUEKJCS/SECDEF WASHDC
 
UNCLAS MADRID 001235 
 
SIPDIS 
 
FOR KEVIN FAIRFAX AND RAQUEL GREEN 
DEPARTMENT FOR EUR/WE 
OSD FOR COL PAT MCCLELLAND 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: MOPS PREL PGOV PHUM SP
SUBJECT: SPAIN:  HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING RESULTS FOR SOCOM 
CONFERENCE ATTENDEES 
 
REF: SOVEREIGN CHALLENGE PROGRAM/KREZECZOWSKI E-MAILS 
 
 1. (U) Pursuant to provisions of the Leahy Amendment and 
Foreign Assistance Act, Post has carefully reviewed the human 
rights records of the following Spanish candidates who were 
intially invited to participate in the 4th Annual Sovereign 
Challenge Foreign Military Attache (FMA) conference, which 
was to be held November 17-20.  Subject conference has now 
been postponed until spring, but it will be sponsored  in 
spring 2009 by U. S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) at 
Hurlburt Field, Ft. Walton Beach, Florida.  U.S. Embassy 
Madrid's Leahy Vetting Group has no credible information that 
any of the below named officers have been involved in gross 
human rights violations or drug trafficking violations. 
 
2. (U) The following Attaches assigned to the Spanish Embassy 
in Washington, DC, have been invited to participate in the 
USSOCOM conference and vetted by agencies at Post: 
 
-- Brigadier General Rafael Vaquero Fernandez 
DPOB:  21 May 1954, Madrid 
Spanish Passport XF001116 
Defense Attache 
 
-- Colonel Jesus Ubierna Paramo 
DPOB: 26 Dec 1952, Burgos 
Spanish Passport XF001181 
Military Attache 
 
-- CN Jose Luis Martinez-Avial Areces 
DPOB: 13 Oct 1955, Pravia, Oviedo 
Spanish Passport XF001257 
Naval Attache 
 
-- Colonel Jose Enrique Rodriguez Gonzalez 
DPOB: 03 Mar 1953, Guijon 
Spanish Passport XF003636 
Air Attache 
 
 
3. (U) The Spanish liaison at U.S. Southern Command 
(SOUTHCOM) has also been invited to participate and has 
likewise been vetted by all agencies at Post: 
 
-- Admiral Fernando Gea Guerrero 
DPOB:  24 Jan 49, Cartagena, Murcia 
Spanish Passport XF003248 
 
 
4. (U) Post appreciates the State Department's assistance in 
clearing these individuals for participation in subject 
conference once it is rescheduled. 
AGUIRRE