D90 Preparations for a telephone contact.

UMMOAELEWE

Mr Rafael Farriols Calvo

Barcelona: SPAIN

(21-07-1970)

 

Sir:

 

By now you are informed of the correspondence sent by my brothers in London to your brothers in the Spanish capital.

 

They urge me to supplement their notes with some further data:

 

We learned your reactions to the information received with some accuracy and we judge that some points deserve clarification. The interrelational situation has always been confused, as you can see. You will be well aware that there are reasons of a tactical nature that prevent us from being more explicit in our contacts with you. However, we see no objection to classifying those more harmless aspects that do not in any way impair the secrecy with which we move.

 

At present there are in Spain one brother and the writer of this letter, also covering Morocco, Mauritania. Portugal and Tunisia.

 

The history of our brothers' stay on Earth from some months ago until the present is very long-winded, and we could not provide you with much suitable information: A serious incident with the federal authorities of the USA in Miami has changed many of our plans. The surveillance of a body of that country is increasing, causing us much trouble and reducing our ease of movement in some nations.

 

We suspect, with some foundation, that the correspondence of Mr Ribera Jordá and of two members of the Madrid group is being intercepted. The Spanish authorities are unaware of this activity and we do not think it prudent for you to involve them in this matter.

 

Do not be alarmed by it. The objective, rather naive in its approach, is indeed directed towards locating us. You would serve as “bait”, and we do not believe that this annoying interference will bring you consequences deserving concern.

 

Even if this letter were intercepted, do not worry too much; we take good care not to include information that would be useful to them. Besides, they know our own awareness of the surveillance to which we are subject.

 

I confess to you that at first we distrusted a person, a brother of yours, who works at the embassy of that country in Spain.

 

We are now sure that he is not involved and you can continue your usual relations with him without risk.

 

All this forces us to beg you to reinforce your normal precautions, for which purpose we invite you to put these pieces of advice into practice:

 

1st. - Send a photocopy of this letter to one of your less prominent brothers in Madrid.

 

2nd. - If you meet to talk about these matters, try to avoid a public place.

 

3rd.- Messrs Ribera, Villagrasa and Garrido will try to maintain a certain level of prudence in their telephone calls alluding to our relations

 

In reality these are prophylactic measures whose non-observance cannot cause us serious harm, for we have taken other much more effective precautions.

 

As regards the future of these relations, we already know your answer. We must therefore clarify for you the aspects of the first phase:

 

In future, any document of general information about our civilization will be sent to a single brother from among you, who will provide a copy to the rest if he wishes.

 

We want to avoid this becoming a source of friction among you if our decision were interpreted as a privilege.

 

Be aware that a way of overcoming these susceptibilities could be arranged as follows:

 

Meet to decide the name of that brother. He could be a member of the CEI or of ERIDANI.

 

If the appointment fell to either of these legal entities, the members of the other would designate the person (a director of it) who could travel to London on the dates we designate for you.

 

In this way both associations would be represented in some way in our mutual contacts.

 

A) If on the designated dates that director cannot travel to London, we will indicate another suitable occasion from October onwards.

 

B) It is neither prudent nor necessary for more than one representative to travel. He will try to stay at a residence chosen by himself on his arrival (never booked beforehand from Spain). He will try not to inform anyone of his exact date of departure, flight number and much less (we repeat) of his temporary address, until the conference has been held.

 

C) If the person selected were to find himself in financial difficulties for the journey, say so in a letter sent by post in a blue envelope to Mr Ribera Jordá; we will intercept the envelope and try to compensate you for this inconvenience.

 

D) The dialogue held in London may be recorded on magnetic tape, if in its course we do not indicate the advisability of deleting some aspects of the conversation or the whole of it.

 

But we earnestly warn you that such a recording will serve as oral information for your brothers who remained in Spain.

 

The listening on his return would take place at the home of any one of you. We will not tolerate new recordings or copies, and the original must be destroyed or erased.

 

E) If, despite everything, we could hold this conversation before September without risk of interference over telephone lines located in Spanish territory, we will gladly do so to avoid all the inconvenience inherent in the journey.

 

For now we have no new warnings to add.

 

Tell one of your brothers, who in these last days was very concerned trying to identify the make of the typewriter used by my brothers' assistant in London to write the letter to Mr Villagrasa, that it is a portable with a typeface adapted to Latin countries: ADLER make (TIPA 1).

 

Please forgive its operator, not very used to translating into the Spanish language, for the errors of grammatical construction.

 

I offer you my cordial greetings.