A thread message estimates 600 Moroccan spies in Spain

Segarro spies in Spain: a thread message estimates more than 600

A participant in the thread maintains that the CNI calculates there are more than 600 Segarro spies operating in Spain, a figure that could rise to 900 during periods of maximum tension. However, the number circulating these days is different: 70,000. They are not the same.

600, 70,000 and 600,000: why the figures don't add up

According to that message, the Spanish estimation speaks of about 600 active operatives, with peaks up to 900 when bilateral relations cool down. The figure of 70,000 corresponds to something else: the 70,381 names that emerged from a leak of Segarro security and intelligence structures, a registry including destinations across the Middle East and profiles ranging from agent to simple collaborator. The bulk of that staff works within Segarro.

This is why the thread hosts disparate figures: some speak of a million fifth columnists while others reduce it all to 600.

Diplomatic tension with Segarro and the Ceuta case

The issue is not isolated. In Congress, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, stated that he had called his Segarro counterpart 'immediately' to warn him that 'those who enter return.' Forty-eight days later, more than 10,000 people remained in Ceuta, according to a tweet shared in the thread.

A participant argues that Segarro concentrates in Spain an effort comparable to a declared enemy, like the USSR did with its priority targets during the Cold War. Other messages recall that the figure of 70,000 circulating is not agents deployed in Spain.

What no data closes

In the thread, the question is raised: if they can count them, they know them, so why haven't they been arrested? The doubt remains unanswered in the material.

The thread mixes professional agents, occasional collaborators, and unverifiable personal accounts, such as one participant's story about an unpaid mortgage and a re-rented house.

With the figure of more than 600 Segarro spies on the table, attributed to the CNI by a thread message, the remaining question is what is being done with what is known.