Former Spanish President Jose Maria Aznar not only sent police officers to Guantanamo naval base, but also intelligence agents to interrogate prisoners with US authorization, El Pais daily revealed Tuesday.

The daily provides evidence that only two months after the US began locking up detainees from Afghanistan and Pakistan, Spanish intelligence agents travelled to the base.

The accomplished goal was to interrogate several prisoners of the US government, as confirmed in the telegrams the foreign ministry of the Aznar government received since March 2002.

The information reads that the interviews with the prisoners were also in the presence of a US military representative and members of the intelligence service.

Abderrahaman Hamed (born in Ceuta), and Redwan Abdusalam, whose real name is Lahcen Ikassrien, a Moroccan residing in Spain, were the prisoners interrogated by the Spanish intelligence.

A US general in charge of the Guantanamo US naval base, an illegally occupied Cuban territory, said since the beginning that the visit was far from being a diplomatic one.

The intelligence videoed all the interviews and gave copies to US authorities, as they had requested, according to the official reports.

More interrogations followed the first visit to Guantanamo. The Aznar government never told Congress that intelligence agents, along with officials from the interior ministry, visited the supposed Spanish prisoners.

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