“Manolo Prado spoke a lot with Barbara Rey“In a threatening tone, it scared him very much,” sources close to the negotiations to stop the publication of the recordings and photographs that the artist promoted to King Juan Carlos told ABC.
The administrator of the hidden fortune of King Juan Carlos was the person designated by the monarch to deal with this thorny issue. There were others, but perhaps none known to Manuel Prado and Colón de Carvajal, who had a direct dialogue with the star since the first blackmail, the one carried out in 1994. In fact, it was him who informed Lieutenant General Emilio Alonso Manglano. , director of Cesid between 1981 and 1995, who had paid Bárbara Rey a first payment of 25 million pesetas so that she would not divulge the photos of the first blackmailwhich were published in a Dutch magazine two weeks ago. This is recorded in the book “The Spy Chief”. Colón de Carvajal also led the second blackmail, the one that culminated in 1997. In fact, on January 24, 1996, he met with Manglano, the lawyer Ramón Hermosilla and the head of security of the Casa del Rey, Lt. colonel. Guillermo Quintana-Lacaci.
The day before, the King’s administrator had met the artist. This is how he declared to his interlocutors: “Barbara Rey is in a bad economic situation. Some people visited Bárbara on television and told her that they were going there, supposedly, on behalf of Mario Conde and Javier de la Rosa. “It contains very important documents concerning the king and they have made an offer.” Colón de Carvajal put the scale of the threat on the table: “He has three videos filmed at his home. The first in the dining room, the second in the bed and the third also in the bed. “You can clearly hear the conversation between the two of them.” The diplomat was very clear: “I scared him and told him that we had to negotiate with him, but that the king had no money. He told me that the tapes were well preserved and I read him the note which is circulating in the editorial offices. “We agreed to talk.”
This “I scared him” house with the testimonies collected by ABC, which maintain that Manolo Prado and Colón de Carvajal were “harsh” with her. But he threatened the King and put the stability of the State at stake. Some sources claim that Cesid considered “all types of measures”, including the most drastic, but the truth is that they were ruled out, since it was finally decided to pay and not attack Bárbara Rey, even though she always said she feared for her life. It is true that two agents entered his home to try to recover the material and managed to erase “a tape”.
On the other hand, there are several records in which Prado interviews Bárbara Rey, at least one in the living room of the star’s home. Those who know them say that the tone of the King’s representative is “very harsh” and that he was “reckless” because he already knew that she was recording.
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