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As a military officer, he has been assigned to the Spanish Embassy in Washington D.C. as deputy military attach\u00e9 and to several managing positions within the Spanish Army. In the Ministry of Defence, Sanz Rold\u00e1n has served as deputy director-general for Plans and International Relations and as director-general for Defence Policy, before becoming Chief of the Defence Staff in 2004. He retired from the active service in 2019, after 57 years of service.[3]Table of Contents       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Biography[edit]Early life[edit]Military career[edit]Chief of the Defence Staff[edit]Director of the CNI[edit]Little Nicol\u00e1s Scandal[edit]Catalan referendum[edit]Villarejo and Corinna Scandal[edit]Activities in retirement[edit]Awards and honors[edit]Awards[edit]Honors[edit]References[edit]Biography[edit]Early life[edit]Sanz Rold\u00e1n was born in Ucl\u00e9s, Cuenca on January 20, 1945. In 2009, he was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by the University Alfonso X the Wise in Madrid.[4]Military career[edit]Sanz Rold\u00e1n entered the General Military Academy, with the XXI Promotion of 1962, being promoted to lieutenant in 1966. As a Lieutenant, he served in the Recruitment Instruction Battalion n\u00ba1 in El-Aai\u00fan, Spanish Sahara. He was also destined into Astorga, Leon and San Roque, C\u00e1diz.After being promoted to captain, he was destined to the Artillery Regiment N\u00ba1 in Madrid. After completing his studies of General Staff, he held positions as Staff in the Armored Brigade XII in El Goloso, Madrid and in the Spanish-American Combined Joint Staff; He was the Head of Baton of Plana Mayor and Battery of Services, in the Artillery Group of ATP-XI Campaign in Campamento, and belonged to the Investigation and Doctrine Group of the Artillery Academy in Fuencarral.After being promoted to commandant (or major) he was assigned as deputy military attach\u00e9 to the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C., and later to the Section of Structures and Organic of the Division of Plans and Organization of the General Staff of the Army. Once promoted to lieutenant colonel,  he was appointed to command the Artillery Group of the Self-Propelled Campaign XII of the Armored Brigade, in El Goloso, Madrid and, at his retirement, was assigned to the Military Mission of Spain before the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) in Mons, Belgium.[5]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4In July 1997, and as colonel, he was head of the International Treaties Section of the Division of Plans and Organization of the General Staff of the Army and Head of the Area of Relations with NATO \/ WEU of the Subdirectorate General for International Affairs of the Directorate-General for Defense Policy.He was promoted to brigadier general in 1998[6] and he was appointed to the office of Deputy Director-General for Plans and International Relations in the Directorate-General for Defense Policy (DIGENPOL) of the Ministry of Defence. In 2001 he was promoted to major general.[7]Chief of the Defence Staff[edit]In 2004 Sanz Rold\u00e1n was promoted to lieutenant general[8] and was appointed Director-General for Defence Policy.[9] In the same year, he was appointed Chief of the Defence Staff (JEMAD) as well as promoted to General of the Army.[10] He held this position until 2008, when the Council of Ministers appointed the lieutenant general, Julio Rodr\u00edguez Fern\u00e1ndez, as substitute.[11]In 2008, after leaving the JEMAD position, F\u00e9lix Sanz Rold\u00e1n was appointed High Representative for the Spanish Presidency of the EU, with direct dependence on the President of the Government.[12]Director of the CNI[edit]On July 2, 2009, Alberto Saiz resigned from the post of Director of the CNI after several attacks and criticisms of his management. In April, the newspaper El Mundo published information that assured, according to CNI sources, that Saiz had repeatedly used resources and public funds of the centre for personal use and enjoyment during his professional trips abroad.[13] In May, he appeared before the Congressional Defense Committee stating that he “never” used public money to defray “no personal or private expenses.”[14] At the same time, the CNI ordered the withdrawal of three field agents at the request of the Cuban government, something that was seen by the members of the agency as a sign of weakness.[15]   In June, he testified again before Congress rejecting again the affirmations about his misuse of public funds.[16] Defence Minister Carme Chac\u00f3n requested a full report about the CNI situation in the first days of July, provoking the director’s resignation on July 9. That day, Sanz Rold\u00e1n was appointed Director of the National Intelligence Center.[17]Sanz Rold\u00e1n dedicated his first years as head of the agency to “pacify”, due to the bad situation that the previous director had provoked between the agents and the governing bodies.[18] In spite of the little recognition, during the first two years of his term the intelligence contributed by the CNI to the police forces of Spain and France contributed to the weakening of the terrorist band, as well as to the arrests of historical territorialists such as “Txeroki”.[19] In October 2011, the terrorist group called a “definitive cessation”.[20]In 2012, Mariano Rajoy assumed the office of Prime Minister and trusted in Sanz Roldan to continue as head of the CNI. He revalidated his position as director of the CNI for a second term in 2014.[21]Little Nicol\u00e1s Scandal[edit]In late 2014, the National Police arrested Francisco Nicol\u00e1s G\u00f3mez Iglesias, a 20-year-old man who for months had been posing as an important person with contacts in the government, the administration and the National Intelligence Centre.[22][23] In November 2014, Francisco Nicol\u00e1s gave interviews to Telecinco and El Mundo in which he claimed to have worked for the Spanish secret service, the Spanish royal family and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.[24]For these claims, the CNI filed criminal charges against him for “insults and slander”, but was acquitted in May 2018.[25]Catalan referendum[edit]At the end of 2017, Sanz Rold\u00e1n and the agency received numerous criticisms for being unable to locate the polls that will be used for the 2017 independence referendum, a referendum declared illegal by the Spanish Government and the Constitutional Court.[26][27] He was alone criticized for allowing former Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont, to flee to Belgium.[28]According to Sanz Rold\u00e1n on September 29, 2018, the following day to the referendum, when he arrived to the CNI headquarters, there was many “long faces” and the “feeling” that the centre “could have done better”. However, Sanz Rold\u00e1n defended the work of the CNI and assured that he asked the government directly if the intelligence that the center had provided to the executive “had been useful to them,” and the answer, he said, was “yes”.[29]Villarejo and Corinna Scandal[edit]Since 2014, Police Commissioner Jos\u00e9 Manuel Villarejo has been involved in several criminal cases against him for disclosure of secrets, membership in criminal organization and money laundering. In early 2019, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Villarejo sent a letter to the Prime Minister accusing Sanz Roldan of threatening certain judges of the National Court with data of their privacy so that they stop investigating issues that affect the CNI. He also accused him of working against the interests of Spain by supporting Venezuelan interests or allowing the leaks about the Spanish royal family.[30]Other accusations against him made by Villarejo has been to protect emeritus king Juan Carlos I by threatening and bribing Corinna zu Sayn Wittgenstein, a supposed lover of the monarch, who supposesly hides critical information for the former king of Spain.[30] All this accusations has been denied by Sanz Rold\u00e1n and the CNI.[30]In July 2019, the second five-years-term of the Director of the CNI, Sanz Rold\u00e1n, ended.[18] At that time, the Spanish government (S\u00e1nchez I Government) was a caretaker government due to the April 2019 general election. The impossibility of forming a government provoked that the Prime Minister could not renew the director for a new term or to nominate a new candidate. Due to this situation, Paz Esteban L\u00f3pez, who was the Secretary-General of the CNI and, therefore, the agency’s second authority, assumed the direction ad interim of the intelligence service, being the first woman to hold the post.Sanz Rold\u00e1n was awarded with the Grand Cross of the Military Merit for his services.[31]Activities in retirement[edit]After leaving the CNI direction, Sanz Rold\u00e1n was appointed Chairman of the Social Council of the University of Castilla\u2013La Mancha in November 2019.[32]Awards and honors[edit]Awards[edit]Honors[edit]References[edit]^ “Chac\u00f3n elogia la capacidad de mando y di\u00e1logo del nuevo jefe del CNI”. El Pa\u00eds. 7 July 2009.^ “elmundo.es – F\u00e9lix Sanz Rold\u00e1n, nuevo Jefe del Estado Mayor de la Defensa”. www.elmundo.es.^ RTVE.es\/EFE (2020-01-31). “Paz Esteban se convierte en la primera mujer al frente del CNI”. RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ “Doctor Honoris Causa”. www.uax.es.^ North Athlantic Treaty Organization, biographies. http:\/\/www.nato.int\/cv\/chod\/sp\/roldan.htm^ Royal Decree 394\/1998, of March 13 (BOE)^ Royal Decree 623\/2001, of June 8 (BOE)^ “BOE.es – Documento BOE-A-2004-9090”. www.boe.es.^ “BOE.es – Documento BOE-A-2004-9096”. www.boe.es.^ “BOE.es – Documento BOE-A-2004-12021”. www.boe.es.^ “BOE.es – Documento BOE-A-2008-12393”. www.boe.es.^ “BOE.es – Documento BOE-A-2008-15371”. www.boe.es.^ “Agentes del CNI acusan al director de cazar y pescar con dinero p\u00fablico | Espa\u00f1a | elmundo.es”. www.elmundo.es. Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ “Saiz respondi\u00f3 dos veces en el Congreso de las acusaciones por las que dimite”. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2009-07-02. Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ Press, Europa (2009-05-21). “Los miembros del CNI que han abandonado Cuba son tres”. www.europapress.es. Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ AGENCIAS; GONZ\u00c1LEZ, MIGUEL (2009-06-23). “Saiz dice haber aportado “detalles exhaustivos” sobre sus “asuntos personales”“. El Pa\u00eds (in Spanish). ISSN\u00a01134-6582. Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ “BOE.es – Documento BOE-A-2009-11129”. www.boe.es.^ a b \u00c1gueda, Pedro. “Sanz Rold\u00e1n, “el astuto”: adi\u00f3s a la d\u00e9cada de poder en la sombra del jefe del CNI”. eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ “El CNI se apunta su mayor \u00e9xito operativo con la detenci\u00f3n del etarra Txeroki”. El Confidencial (in Spanish). 2008-11-18. Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ “Eta says armed campaign is over”. BBC News. 2011-10-20. Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ “BOE.es – Documento BOE-A-2014-7078”. www.boe.es.^ “La vida inventada del peque\u00f1o Nicol\u00e1s: de ‘amigo’ de Felipe VI a chantajista del Ibex”. El Confidencial (in Spanish). 2014-10-16. Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ Taillac, Mathieu de (2014-10-23). “L’\u00e9lite espagnole dup\u00e9e par l’esbroufe du “petit Nicolas”“. Le Figaro.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ “Francisco Nicol\u00e1s: “Denunci\u00e9 actuaciones ‘alegales’ de algunos miembros del CNI”“. telecinco (in European Spanish). 2014-11-23. Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ “Absuelto el peque\u00f1o Nicol\u00e1s de injurias y calumnias al CNI”. El Pa\u00eds (in Spanish). 2018-05-11. ISSN\u00a01134-6582. Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ “Why the referendum on Catalan independence is illegal”. The Economist. ISSN\u00a00013-0613. Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ “How to Stage an Illegal Referendum”. www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2020-02-01.{{cite web}}:  CS1 maint: url-status (link)^ “Nuevo naufragio catal\u00e1n del CNI: vigilaba a ‘Pokemon’ pero se escap\u00f3 a Bruselas”. El Espa\u00f1ol (in European Spanish). 2017-11-04. Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ “Autocr\u00edtica en el CNI por las urnas del 1-O”. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2018-09-28. Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ a b c “Qui\u00e9n es Sanz Rold\u00e1n y por qu\u00e9 es la bestia negra de Villarejo”. vf (in Spanish). 2019-01-13. Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ “El uclese\u00f1o F\u00e9lix Sanz Rold\u00e1n, condecorado con la Gran Cruz del M\u00e9rito Militar con distintivo blanco – Detalles – Voces de Cuenca”. www.vocesdecuenca.com. Retrieved 2020-02-01.^ “Sanz Rold\u00e1n es nombrado nuevo presidente del Consejo Social de la UCLM”. abc (in Spanish). 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2020-02-01.     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki41\/felix-sanz-roldan-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"F\u00e9lix Sanz Rold\u00e1n – Wikipedia"}}]}]