Original sentence: However, his involvement with the GAL could never be proven.In 1997 the Spanish  court finished its trial, which resulted in convictions and imprisonment of several individuals related to the GAL, including civil servants and politicians up to the highest levels of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) government, such as former Homeland Minister José Barrionuevo.These events marked the end of the armed "counter-terrorist" period in Spain and no major cases of foul play on the part of the Spanish government after 1987 (when GAL ceased to operate) have been proven in courts
Edited sentence: " Further, the CIA reported, "GAL's goal was to assassinate the leaders of the long-disarmed and disbanded underground organization ETA in Spain and France".After Franco's death far too much remained structurally unchanged.Barrionuevo and Vera were pardoned after only a few months in prison.Eventually, in 2000 - thanks to declassified CIA files - it became part of public knowledge, that in 1984 "González [...] agreed to the creation of a mercenary force to fight terrorism outside the law.González was well connected with the powerful in Latin America and continued to play an important role, especially in Spain's foreign relations.González, remained unchallenged.In 1997 the Spanish  court finished its trial, which resulted in convictions and imprisonment of several individuals related to the GAL, including civil servants and politicians up to the highest levels of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) government, such as former Homeland Minister José Barrionuevo and Rafael Vera.In the Panama Papers, his second wife Mar García Vaquero and close family confidants appear because of their accounts in various tax havens.The fact that the new revelations from CIA/Washington were picked up by regional media in Catalonia and the Basque Country, but went largely unnoticed by Madrid's daily newspapers, was significant