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Luis Bolín

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to whom he had promised help in 1934. On July 25 Mussolini gave his permission to the delivery after a message from Mola that consented. The bombers were necessary to break the blockade of the Moroccan waters by Loyalist Spanish warships and enable Franco's troops to reach the mainland. Bolín was
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Mitchell was quickly released thanks to his diplomatic connections, but Koestler languished for several months in a fascist prison under a death sentence. The episode is recorded both in Mitchell's memoirs and in Koestler's
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and vowed that if he ever laid hands on him, he would "shoot him like a dog". After the fall of Málaga to Italian forces, which had been sent by Mussolini to support Franco’s rebellion, Koestler was sheltering with Sir
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was responsible for taking journalists on tours of the various battlefields. His fierce advocacy for Franco earned him the dislike of left-wing journalists. According to
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Immediately thereafter, Bolín flew to Rome to request in the name of Franco the delivery of twelve bombers with and a sufficient number of bombs. At first,
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passenger of one of the nine bombers that reached Spanish Morocco safely. Two planes crashed, and one made a forced landing in
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to lead the insurrection and to prepare the transport of the troops to the mainland. That was some days before the murder of
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at the Spanish Embassy in London. He also became a correspondent for the conservative and monarchist Spanish newspaper
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as pilot and took his daughter Diana Pollard and one of her friends to pose as tourists.
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In return for his assistance, Bolin was appointed by Franco honorary captain of the
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refused, because he did not have proof that the initiative was backed up by General
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and opposed the coming of the Spanish Republic in 1931 after the abdication of
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In July 1936, Bolín played an important role in the events leading up to the
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Conspiracy and the Spanish Civil War: The Brainwashing of Francisco Franco
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We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War
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with the British Army as a war correspondent. In 1920, he was
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Bolín was born into a well-to-do family of wine merchants in
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on 27 September 1936. He harboured a particular hatred for
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to transport General Francisco Franco from the Canaries to
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Spanish people of the Spanish Civil War (National faction)
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Perpetrators of political repression in Francoist Spain
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A New international history of the Spanish Civil War
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Spanish lawyer, journalist and tour-operating expert
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