Blowing Up Iberia

During the Second World War, the British Secret Intelligence Service and Special Operations Executive had plans in case Hitler ordered the invasion of Spain and Portugal. This involved training British and Spanish agents to be secretly infiltrated on sabotage missions. To avoid a diplomatic incident, the Germans paid Spanish collaborators to undertake sabotage missions against Allied military and economic targets but they had limited success. Italian saboteurs were more successful using underwater divers. Using declassified files from Britain's National Archives, autobiographies, biographies and newspaper articles, this documentary history sheds new light on an unusual aspect of Iberian history.