Argentina planned to blow up warship in Gibraltar during the Falklands War

BARCELONA -- It was a spy story with a plot out of James Bond. During the Falklands War, Argentina planned to blow up a British warship in Gibraltar.

The main protagonist was a former left-wing guerrilla turned spy who specialised in mine attacks on warships.

A Spanish film-maker, Jesus Mora, has made a documentary about Operation Algeciras. For many years, no one in authority would admit the plot existed but Mora got the former Spanish prime minister Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo and the chief of the Argentine navy at the time, Admiral Jorge Anaya, to confirm it...