The Iraq 8

Get to know the secrets behind the offensive against 8 secret agents told by the only survivor.

At the end of 2003, while the Spanish National Intelligence Service (CNI) was experiencing one of its darkest moments in Iraq, eight agents were ambushed by surprise in Latifiya, victims of a violent shootout. They were stationed there to provide security for the Spanish troops displaced after the invasion, but no one could prepare them for what was to come.

Was it a revenge of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard, a simple stroke of fortune or was it an attempt to eliminate agents who had very valuable information?

An unprecedented look at a tragedy that reshaped Spain’s intelligence service and the lingering mysteries it left behind.