The journalist Fernando Rueda and SECED (Central Documentation Service) secret agent Mikel Lejarza are the next guests. The meeting will take place at 7:30 pm in the auditorium of the Cajamurcia Foundation, on Gran Vía in Murcia, with a capacity of up to 240 people.
On the 50th anniversary of Operation Lobo, the greatest blow against the terrorist group ETA, the Aula de Cultura de LA VERDAD, in partnership with the Cajamurcia Foundation, will receive this Thursday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m., in the presence of the journalist Fernando Rueda, the Spain’s top specialist in espionage cases, and with the telephone participation of the spy Mikel Lejarza, aka ‘El Lobo’, the most persecuted man in the country, whose infiltration into ETA forced him to live the rest of his life underground. Both are the authors of ‘Secrets of confession’ and ‘I confess’, published by Roca Editorial. The meeting will take place in the auditorium of the Cajamurcia Foundation, at Gran Vía 23, in Murcia. Alberto Aguirre de Cárcer, director of LA VERDAD, will participate in the event, which will be moderated by Manuel Madrid, coordinator of the newspaper’s Culture Classroom.
In an interview published in LA VERDAD, Lejarza acknowledges living in Murcia after Operation Lobo, stating that “they didn’t come to kill me, and I hope not, but I paid a high price for it”. ‘Secrets of confession’, the sequel to the successful ‘I confess’ (40,000 copies sold), pays tribute to a man who has devoted his entire life to serving the country from the shadows and contains the statements of Lejarza’s bosses and colleagues, and his family, who first talks about the infiltration and his relationship with El Lobo. This book reflects El Lobo’s life as a civilian and an intelligence agent, revealing everything he was afraid to tell in the first part of his memoir. An exciting story about what it means to be a self-made spy, for which ETA has reserved another bullet.
‘Secrets of confession’ also refutes the hypothesis that Lejarza is not who he claims to be, the young interior designer from Villaro imprisoned to do information work: «[…] ETA remains determined to discredit him, unable to accept that an inexperienced young Bask has punched such a hole in them that he has nearly ended the entire organization on his own.
Mikel Lejarza, aka ‘Lobo’, was a young, bald man when he was recruited by the Secret Service to infiltrate the terrorist group ETA. The result was spectacular: more than 200 terrorists were detained and their infrastructure across Spain was disabled. He underwent cosmetic surgery so that no one would ever identify him again, he infiltrated the mafia and economic groups and continued to fight against ETA and international terrorism to this day. That’s how Rueda describes it. Lejarza does not exist as a citizen. He is not registered anywhere.
In LA VERDAD, Lejarza assured that «the figure of the ‘Wolf’ annoys most people. Politicians disapprove. To the enemies of Spain I will say no more to you. But it is that even the friends of Spain also suffer from it. We wrote these books, “I Confess” and “Secrets of Confession,” with the idea that the truth stays there. The real truth. But you see people don’t seem to be interested in real stories and stories from the past. You see that they would rather read a novel than know the reality. Surprisingly, I have seen that there are young people who are interested, sometimes much more than older people».
Source: La Verdad
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