[0365-2222] OPERATION ALGECIRAS – Companion Dossier (PDF)

Description

April 1982: As the British Task Force mobilized to reclaim the Falkland Islands, Argentine Naval Intelligence launched a desperate, deniable sabotage mission thousands of miles north in mainland Europe. Codenamed Operation Algeciras, the covert plot embedded elite combat frogmen, disguised as civilian merchant mariners, directly across the bay from the heavily fortified Rock of Gibraltar. Armed with Italian-designed limpet mines shipped covertly via Lisbon and utilizing civilian rebreathers, their mission was blunt: swim into the Royal Navy’s strategic Mediterranean stronghold under cover of night and blow the fleet’s crucial resupply vessels out of the water. This Companion Dossier compiles meticulously reconstructed operational evidence, tracing the deployment from Buenos Aires command bunkers through forward reconnaissance posts in neutral Spain. Review intercepted communications, detailed harbor patrol profiles, weapon transfer routes, and the critical counterintelligence leak that doomed the sabotage squad before the first swimmer breached the waterline. Formatted with declassified intelligence transcripts, operational timelines, and tactical maps, this dossier lays bare the secret European theater of the South Atlantic conflict.