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Eduardo Martinez, agent 055A, a Spanish to service the British government, mocked the Gestapo

Vigo A doctor was one of the most important secret agents of the British Government during World War II. Eduardo Martinez Alonso, born in 1903, helped hundreds of refugees escape from crossing the Pyrenees fleeing the Nazi occupation from 1940 to 1944. The story was discovered by her daughter, Patricia Martinez Vicente, social anthropologist, to pull the wire when he met his diary twelve years after his death, which occurred in 1972.

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The new material has enabled him to confirm that Eduardo Martinez had a written commitment to the British government to observe strict confidentiality regarding its activities.

also has revealed that Franco was aware of the escape routes along the Cantabrian coast, but not pursued because the same agent Vigo coordinated the delivery of humanitarian aid through the Red Cross. "It was kind of trade or bribery, they turned a blind eye and let in the refugees, because in return they received medicine and food for those years sent more than two million vaccines against typhoid," commented his daughter.

wealthy family

Eduardo Martinez Alonso was a member of a wealthy family in Vigo and liberal thought in the second half of last century. "I could have lived a prosperous life, but did not because he practiced medicine during the Civil War and was shocked by the atrocities of war, "says Patricia Martinez.

His grandfather, Antonio Alonso Santodomingo was in Bayonne and was a pioneer in the industrialization canning of the city with the founding of the Palace of the Orient Company, which is still operating today.

finished medical studies in the English city of Liverpool, where his father worked as a consul of Uruguay. At the outbreak of World War II, wanted to enlist in the army to fight against Nazism, but was recruited for espionage services.

More 300,000 refugees managed to flee to America by the peninsula thanks to 16 evacuation routes in Spain and Portugal. Between 100 and 200 people crossed the French border each day. Eduardo Martinez was the connection in Galicia. The refugees were accommodated in the floor of the center of Vigo and the ten rooms of his summer home in Redondela. From there they were shipped in the port of Vigo or sneak across the river from Tui Miño towards Lisbon.

refugees arrived by taxi from Madrid and Tui clandestinely crossed the Minho.

Personal testimonies found in the reports that two years ago were secret realize the adventure that was supposed to facilitate the flight of refugees and the complicity that were in the coastal communities of both sides. Eduardo Martinez had designed two escape routes to Portugal in the region of O Baixo Miño. The first point was located three miles Guillarei in Tui. "There Alén brothers have a house, a shop and a small farm, have a business of smuggling and are well known to the police, with whom they get along great," said one of the reports have been declassified.

The other route was located about three miles away. They expected an agent, known by the alias Trimotor, "brother of one of the police, also has a house with land and a fishing boat that can accommodate about 12 men", as can be read in one report.

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refugees arrived by taxi from Madrid, after passing through Barcelona or Pamplona. The driver, nicknamed Rivers, was a member of the plot. Let us know in a telegram to the phrase 'Go to Madrid Express on Thursday. " So I knew that tomorrow would made the crossing.

The communication is signed with any name beginning with A when he went to use the route T Alen and if used the way guided by Trimotor. Agents earned an average of 2,000 pesetas per crossing, including bribery of the Portuguese police, while the driver got another 500 pesetas for his work.

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