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### Viewing cable 09MADRID551, SCENESETTER FOR JUNE 23-25 WASHINGTON VISIT BY SPAIN'S INTERIOR MINISTER

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 03 MADRID 000551

    NOFORN
    SIPDIS

    FOR EUR/WE, EUR/ERA, INR

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 06/07/2019
    TAGS: PREL PINS PTER PINR KHLS KCIP KCRM SP PGOV
    SUBJECT: SCENESETTER FOR JUNE 23-25 WASHINGTON VISIT BY SPAIN'S INTERIOR MINISTER

    REF: A. MADRID 351
         ¶B. SECSTATE 56239
         ¶C. MADRID 440
         ¶D. MADRID 261
         ¶E. MADRID 484

    MADRID 00000551  001.2 OF 003

    Classified By: Charge D'Affaires Arnold A. Chacon for reasons 1.4 (b) a
    nd (d)

    ¶1. (C//NF) SUMMARY:  Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez
    Rubalcaba will meet senior officials from the DHS, DOJ, FBI,
    CIA, ODNI, NCTC, and possibly the NSC, during his June 23-25
    visit to Washington, DC.  USG interlocutors will find that
    Rubalcaba - who has wide-ranging responsibilities on
    security, law enforcement and intelligence issues - is very
    capable and serious but also charming.  A career politician,
    Rubalcaba is arguably the most impressive member of Spanish
    President Zapatero's cabinet and a very useful and powerful
    ally to have in the Zapatero Administration.  His influence
    exceeds the formal parameters of his Ministry.  Embassy
    Madrid judges the bilateral law enforcement relationship to
    be excellent, while the bilateral CT relationship is good but
    could be better.  Rubalcaba is interested in signing either
    several bilateral accords or (if the accords cannot be ironed
    out in time) political declarations of intent to do so in the
    near future.  The Minister has an extensive agenda -
    including counter-terrorism (CT), law enforcement, and
    intelligence issues - he wishes to discuss with US officials.
     While the focus of this trip will be on discussing bilateral
    issues, Rubalcaba also will address GOS interest in increased
    collaboration on justice and home affairs issues during
    Spain's upcoming stint as President of the European Union
    (EU) during the first half of 2010.  END SUMMARY.

    //US-SPAIN RELATIONS//

    ¶2. (C//NF) U.S.-Spain relations are strong and based on
    shared global interests.  Spain is an important friend and
    ally and we value its cooperation against terrorism and a
    range of other security issues.  Since the US presidential
    election in November, a strong atmosphere of goodwill has
    emerged in Spain for closer bilateral  cooperation.  As a
    gesture of this goodwill, the GOS presently is considering
    accepting some of the detainees currently held at Guantanamo
    (GTMO, see Ref A).  XXXXXXXXXXXX.  Spain also allows us the use of two military bases that are critical transit points between the U.S. and Iraq and Afghanistan.  Recent irritants in bilateral
    relations, however, are the efforts by the Spanish judiciary
    - invoking "universal jurisdiction" - to indict former USG
    officials for their allegedly involvement in torture at GTMO.
    (See Ref C).

    //RUBALCABA AND HIS MINISTRY//

    ¶3. (C//NF) A member of parliament since 1996, Rubalcaba is a
    three-time Minister who in mid-2008 also served a brief stint
    as acting Defense Minister.  He is known for his
    intelligence, discretion, hard work, and mastery of detail,
    as well as his negotiating prowess.  Rubalcaba was the
    Socialist party's longtime pointman on CT issues before
    Zapatero named him Interior Minister in early 2006.  He is
    one of two or three individuals whom Zapatero often consults
    before making big decisions, and not only on issues within
    Rubalcaba's portfolio.  A senior official within the

    MADRID 00000551  002.2 OF 003

    Socialist party with a reputation for getting things done,
    Rubalcaba excels at putting out fires and is a valued contact
    of the Embassy, which finds him accessible and effective in
    getting things done for us despite his busy portfolio.  This
    will be Rubalcaba's first meeting with most of his USG
    interlocutors, although he first met DHS Secretary Napolitano
    in Berlin for the G6 1 meeting on March 15.  The Minister
    speaks English but prefers to have an interpreter present for
    some of the more technical aspects of his official meetings.

    ¶4. (C//NF) The Ministry of Interior (MOI) oversees the
    Spanish National Police (SNP) and the paramilitary Civil
    Guard (GC).  The MOI is a key cabinet post, as Spain
    confronts both the domestic terrorist group Basque Fatherland
    and Liberty (ETA) and radical Islamist terrorists and
    sympathizers.  Spain's 40-year battle against ETA has given
    its security forces - and their intelligence wings -
    considerable CT expertise, although the GOS continues to
    adapt its methods to combating decentralized radical
    Islamists.  Spain also faces a confluence of organized crime
    syndicates involved in the contraband of narcotics and other
    drugs, human trafficking and illegal immigration, money
    laundering and credit card fraud, and document falsification.
     Meanwhile, the SNP and GC increasingly are expanding their
    representation overseas as attaches in Embassies.  Embassy
    Madrid recommends that USG interlocutors press Rubalcaba on
    sending GC and/or SNP personnel to help train security forces
    in Afghanistan and Iraq.

    ¶5. (C//NF)  We believe Rubalcaba fully understands the extent
    of the lack of inter-agency cooperation between the SNP and
    the GC, as well as stovepipe problems between them and
    Spain's National Intelligence Center (CNI).  He has
    overhauled the MOI to achieve greater inter-agency
    efficiencies.  In 2006 he created an Organized Crime
    Intelligence Center (CICO) and in 2007 he created a National
    Center of Critical Infrastructure Protection (CNPIC).  The
    director of Spain's National Center for Counter-Terrorism
    Coordination (CNCA, roughly equivalent to the NCTC) reports
    to Rubalcaba.  XXXXXXXXXXXXX  Rubalcaba has overseen a
    very forward-leaning CT strategy against both radical
    Islamists and - following the late 2006 car-bombing of the
    Madrid airport, which ended its unilaterally declared
    cease-fire - ETA.  The GOS prides itself that its
    preventative justice approach, disrupting terrorist cells
    before they become operational, has resulted in no deaths at
    the hands of radical Islamists since 2004.  Rubalcaba
    realizes he needs the USG on CT issues and therefore he has
    been cooperative with U.S. interlocutors on that topic.

    //FOUR PROSPECTIVE BILATERAL ACCORDS//

    ¶6. (C//NF) Rubalcaba's staff tells us he hopes to sign up to
    four accords during his visit:

    I) A US-proposed agreement on Preventing and Combating
    Serious Crime (PCSC), as discussed in Ref E.

    II) An agreement on Cooperation in Science & Technology for
    Homeland Security Matters, using the existing US-Mexico
    agreement as a template.

    III)  An MOU formalizing ongoing cooperation on the DHS's
    Immigration Advisory Program (IAP) at Madrid's Barajas
    Airport, where a successful pilot program recently was
    carried out.

    IV) An MOU to strengthen bilateral cooperation and reinforce
    efforts to locate fugitives.

    //PROSPECTIVE ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION PER MEETING//

    ¶7. (C//NF) Rubalcaba hopes to sign the above accords with the
    DHS Secretary, with whom he also will discuss protecting
    critical infrastructure and combating counterfeit money.  He
    will discuss ETA, border control issues, and the CSI.  He
    also will suggest the creation of an alert system regarding
    the theft of nuclear materials by terrorists.  Finally, he

    MADRID 00000551  003.2 OF 003

    will propose an exchange of liaison personnel to have
    officials present in each others' headquarters.  On a
    multilateral issues, Rubalcaba will address GOS plans to
    "revitalize" the US-EU transatlantic partnership during
    Spain's EU Presidency.  This may include an embryonic idea
    for a joint US-EU declaration on the fight against terrorism
    to be signed in Madrid on March 11, 2010, the sixth
    anniversary of the Madrid train bombings.

    ¶8.  (C//NF) With the Attorney General and FBI Director,
    Rubalcaba will discuss the prospective accord on fugitives
    (See above).  He also wants to discuss the CODIS database,
    cybercrime issues, cooperation regarding ETA, a proposal to
    intensify cooperation with the DEA, and efforts to fight
    organized crime and money laundering.  He also will raise the
    GTMO detainee issue.  Rubalcaba will have a role in deciding
    the GOS decision on the GTMO, based on security concerns and
    freedom of movement issues.  Post recommends that Rubalcaba
    would be a logical person with whom to press the message that
    the various universal jurisdiction cases against former USG
    officials are not helpful.

    ¶9. (C//NF) Embassy Madrid is sending via other channels the
    proposed agenda for Rubalcaba's meetings with the DNI, CIA
    and NCTC.

    ¶10. (C//NF) The GOS has asked for an appointment with the
    U.S. National Security Adviser, with whom Rubalcaba would
    like to discuss the US-EU transatlantic agenda, a declaration
    of CT principles (See Para 9), and the issue of Guantanamo
    detainees.  The Minister also would like to address radical
    Islamic terrorism in the Af/Pak region and in the Sahel.

    ¶11. (C) We suggest Washington interlocutors thank Rubalcaba
    for the excellent anti-organized crime and counter-narcotics
    relationships we enjoy in Spain and urge that we work jointly
    to find ways to improve the already good CT relationship.
    DOJ in particular will wish to thank him for Spain's
    assistance in extraditing arms trafficker Monzer al-Kassar in
    ¶2008.

    CHACON

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