Movie About Galindez

If you watch this movie you will find out that the CIA conspired with two dictators (Francisco Franco of Spain and Rafael Trujillo of Dominican Republic) to murder the Basque diplomat Jesús Galindez.

Here you have the info about the movie from the Toronto Film Festival's web site:

The Galindez File

The Galindez File, from Spanish director Gerardo Herrero, is a somewhat odd little film, with certain merits. It is a fictionalized account of the effort to discover the truth about the fate of Jesús de Galindez, a political refugee from Franco's Spain, who disappeared in New York City in 1956. Before he settled in the US, Galindez had lived in the Dominican Republic and become a firm opponent of the Trujillo dictatorship in that country, writing exposés of the regime's misdeeds.

In Herrero's film, based on a novel, an American researcher, Muriel Colber (Saffron Burrows) is pursuing the Galindez story in the 1980s. Muriel's determination to get to the bottom of things, unbeknownst to her, arouses concerns in US intelligence circles. It turns out that the CIA had assisted in the kidnapping of Galindez by the Dominican authorities, who proceeded to torture and murder him.

In the course of her pursuit of the historical truth, Muriel turns up evidence that points to Galindez' own unsavory political operations. She discovers that this "freedom fighter" was busy informing on a variety of leftist movements in the US on behalf of the FBI. A Basque nationalist, Galindez was presumably attempting to establish his "anti-red" credentials with Washington at the height of the Cold War. Why did another wing of the American state then conspire in his death? Apparently because Trujillo "filled many pockets" in the US Congress.

Aside from the performance of Burrows, who is not a great actress but conveys considerable integrity and sense of purpose, the film is useful for pointing out not merely the complicity of American intelligence in the crimes of the Trujillo gangster regime, which will hardly come as a surprise, but the agency's unhesitating readiness to liquidate US citizens who threaten its operations. Another point in the film's favor is the barbed depiction of Muriel's advisor, a "leftist" professor, who is quite easily pressured by the CIA into betraying his former student (and lover).

And still the USA dares to put Batasuna, a Basque political pary, on its list of "terrorist organizations".

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