- Retamares, at the limit: new buildings for key units
- Alarms go off: plans and security measures revealed
- This is how the building is distributed: offices, laboratories and rooms
- Detectors, cameras and access control: the most sensitive
- The plans are deleted from the Contractual Platform
- The PP asks for explanations: ten questions to the government
- “Interesting information for hostile countries?
- The Defense’s response: “in accordance with the regulations in force”
- Robles already faces another controversy over ‘sensitive information’
Retamares, at the limit: new buildings for key units
He Defense Staff been planning for years build new buildings for several of the units of the common structure: the Joint Cyberspace Commandhe Joint Special Operations Command and the Armed Forces Intelligence CenterAbove all.
These facilities will be built in the Base Retamareslocated in Pozuelo de Alarcon (west of Madrid), where the main headquarters of the remaining military corps are located without enough space to accommodate all of its staff.
He Defense Staff launched ago two months A tender to hire a company to supply and assemble in Retamares “a set of prefabricated removable modules to house temporary facilities (laboratories, offices and other complementary equipment) to support the CIFAS“.
Alarms go off: plans and security measures revealed
Surprisinglyin the public documents of this project for the Armed Forces Intelligence Center included the building planswith a significant level of detail on the security measures which will protect the new headquarters.
This is how the building is distributed: offices, laboratories and rooms
One of the tender documents allowed us to see floor plans of the new building, which indicated how the space would be distributed in the two floors of the building: offices (some military commanders are indicated), laboratories, meeting rooms…
He identified the use of certain spaces, but what was most commented on among militaryrevealed the future location, throughout the building, of the measures which will be installed to prevent intruder access the building to steal classified informationor to install systems espionage like cameras and microphones.
Detectors, cameras and access control: the most sensitive
Volumetric detectors, video surveillance cameras, access control units And card readers to be able to access… data which can give clues as to which spaces will be the most protected, where access will be more restricted, which can probably imply that there is management information of the greatest military interest.
The plans are deleted from the Contractual Platform
The ABC newspaper published that Defense had spread by mistake THE plans of a new building military intelligence.
These plans were ultimately retired of the offer in the Public procurement platform. It is also amended THE prescription sheets.
The PP asks for explanations: ten questions to the government
He People’s Party request explanations for this matter. Former parliamentary spokesperson and former secretary general Cuca Gamarra and the spokesperson for the Defense Commission Carlos Rojas registered with Congress of Deputies a parliamentary question with ten questionslike “Why plans of a building in ZAR zone (Restricted access area) are not classified? » and “What failed, once again, in the procedure for it to be published sensitive information of an organization with limited access of the armed forces in the Public sector procurement platform?”
“Interesting information for hostile countries?
The deputies of PP They insisted on demanding Government answer if the plans of a building where it is managed classified informationlike that of CIFAS“this is information that is of interest to the intelligence services of hostile countries» and if the incident “may represent harm to the national security“.
The Defense’s response: “in accordance with the regulations in force”
The Snitch viewed the response from Government of Pedro Sánchezwhich we can assume was written by Ministry of Defense.
The department of Marguerite Robles does not recognize no errorsdespite the fact that the document with the plans of the Public procurement platform.
” Both treatment like the publication On the contracting platform for the file which is the subject of the initiative, the technical staff of the project management in charge carried out, in accordance with current regulations“, assures him Government.
Not only was he treatedin accordance with the regulations“, but also “watch for the adequate protection of information that, because of his character, he demanded it. Executive defends that this is what “the competent technical teamswho are those who have the qualification required for that. »
In this response, Shortfrom a paragraph, Defense fails to take a position on whether the broadcast of the projects it subsequently withdrew harmed national securitynor does it clarify why such a document was not considered classified information.
Robles already faces another controversy over ‘sensitive information’
Marguerite Robles in person, he already tried ridiculous news, like that of Digital Confidentialitywho alerted a year ago to the error of having hung up on the call for tenders for the uniform framework agreement a document with precise figures on the number of soldiers in each army unit, at overly detailed levels.
When they asked him to come in Defense Commission of the Congress of Deputiescriticized the news in which “he was totally affirmed alarmist and ignoring the reality that had been published sensitive information on the structure, personnel and capabilities of the army, even going so far as to write incomprehensibly that what was published was the Orbatthe order (sic) of battle. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Howeverthe truth is that the document in question was retired And replaced on the other hand, and that, in writing, the Government indicated that “to avoid controversies such as those which appeared in the media, the Army carried out the action protocols regarding information security“.
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