- Francisco Ciutat de Miguel
Francisco Ciutat de Miguel (1909 –
November 30 ,1986 ) (known as Angelito)cite web |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/hispanic_american_historical_review/v082/82.4dominguez.html |title=Zona de guerra: Espana y la revolucion cubana (1960–1962) |accessdate=2007-04-26 |format= |work=Duke University Press ] was a Spanishcommunist cite book |last=Aub |first=Max |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor= |others= |title=Campo de los almendros |origdate= |origyear= |origmonth= |url= |format= |accessdate= |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |series= |date= |year=2000 |month= |publisher=Editorial Castalia |location= |language= |isbn=8-4703-9858-X |oclc= |doi= |id= |pages=p.204 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote= ]Lieutenant ofinfantry andCommander . He fought theBattle of Santander during theSpanish Civil War in the summer of 1937 as a Chief of Operations of the Army of the North. [cite web |url=http://www.ogqn.com/odb_gce/epr/batallas_epr/santander_epr/santander_epr.htm |title=Batalla de Santander |accessdate=2007-04-26 |format=htm |work=OdB GCE ]Outside Spain
After the end of the Civil War, de Miguel fled to the
Soviet Union where he joined theVoroshilov Academy and married Sofía Kokuina. [cite web |url=http://www.sbhac.net/Republica/Personajes/Militares/Militares1.htm |title=Memoria republicana |accessdate=2007-04-26 |format= |work= ] He later participated as a foreign military advisor to the Cuban Army during theBay of Pigs Invasion . He also assisted the Algerian Army againstMorocco during theSand War and participated in theVietnam War .cite web |url=http://lateclaconcafe.blogia.com/2006/120501-un-hombre-que-tuvo-tres-nombres.php |title=Un hombre que tuvo tres nombres |accessdate=2007-04-26 |format= |work=Mercedes Rodríguez García ]He later returned to
Spain in 1977 after the death ofFrancisco Franco .Aliases
Ciutat de Miguel had many aliases:
* Masonic name: Algazel
* Russian name: Pavel Pablovich Stepanov
* Cuban alias: Ángel Martínez Riosola [cite web |url=http://lateclaconcafe.blogia.com/2006/120501-un-hombre-que-tuvo-tres-nombres.php |title="Te llamarás Ángel, Ángel Martínez Riosola" (given by Fidel Castro)|accessdate=2007-04-26 |format= |work=Mercedes Rodríguez García ]
* Short name: Paco
* Commonly referred to as AngelitoBibliography
* "Relatos y reflexiones de la Guerra de España 1936-1939" - Francisco Ciutat de Miguel. Forma Ediciones. Madrid 1978. es icon
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