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"Operation Algeciras" Argentine ship attack plan in Gibraltar By Harold Briley A secret Argentine mission to sink a British warship in Gibraltar during the 1982 Falklands War was narrowly averted at the last minute by British intelligence and Spanish police. The plan, code-named "Operation Algeciras", was hatched by Argentine Admiral Jorge Anaya, the Junta Member who also masterminded the invasion. He sent a demolition team to Spain on the coast near Gibraltar with orders to sink Royal Navy ships. They spent a month there but three planned attacks on frigates and transport ships were aborted while peace negotiations proceeded. But once the Argentine cruiser Belgrano was sunk with heavy loss of life, Admiral Anaya gave the order to sink a Royal Navy frigate by attaching to its hull limpet mines smuggled to the Argentine Embassy in Madrid in a diplomatic bag. The demolition divers posed as fishermen in a rubber dinghy, floating off the Spanish town of La Linea. But they were arrested by Spanish police on the morning of the planned attack when they went to renew the hire of their getaway car. The police had been tipped off by British intelligence which had detected the plot by telephone taps on conversations between Argentina's embassy in Madrid and Buenos Aires. This article first appeared in the Falkland Islands Newsletter, Edition 87, September 2004. The Falkland Islands Association is an independent organisation which brings together those who support the continuing freedom of the people of the Falkland Islands. Its Constitution states that its objectives are to assist the people of the Falkland Islands to decide their own future for themselves without being subjected to pressure direct or indirect from any quarter
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