The CIA declined to comment.
linked to the CIA, report Spanish media outlets El Confidencial and El Pais. » data-reactid= »22″>When a bleeding woman ran down a street in a leafy suburb of Madrid, pointing at the nearby North Korean embassy and screaming about masked invaders, local police at first thought she was crazy. Now they suspect the mysteries of that day are linked to the CIA, report Spanish media outlets El Confidencial and El Pais.
A hush-hush and ongoing Spanish investigation into a violent break-in claims that on Feb. 22,10 armed men in masks reportedly scaled the side of Pyongyang’s isolated embassy in the Spanish capital and assaulted and interrogated staff before absconding with papers and computer devices. The break-in occurred just five days before President Donald Trump met North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un in Vietnam.
North Korea’s embassy is currently without a formal head since its former ambassador, Kim Hyok Chol, was declared persona non grata and flown out of Spain 18 months earlier as part of international condemnation of his country’s nuclear testing.
“an arsenal” of arms, described as a vast quantity of rifles, shotguns and handguns, in a country where ownership of arms is heavily restricted. Additionally, investigators believe a transformer fire outside the embassy may be linked to the break-in, according to El Confidencial. » data-reactid= »25″>The enigmatic embassy break-in took a dramatic new twist this week when it was leaked to Spanish digital newspaper El Confidencial that upon studying the embassy’s security cameras, investigators had identified two of the subjects as being linked to the CIA.
