[1] Cubillo also intended to travel to New York City and present a resolution favorable to the independence of the archipelago before the United Nations General Assembly.

[4] According to speculation in the newspaper Der Spiegel, the government of the Federal Republic of Germany would have assigned Werner Mauss, a special agent of the Lower Saxony police, to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to obtain information from the MPAIAC.

José Luis Espinosa Pardo, a former Servicio Central de Documentación (SECED) infiltrator of the Communist Party of Spain (Reconstituted) (PCE(r)) and the Revolutionary Antifascist Patriotic Front (FRAP), who had previously offered to support Cubillo, hired mercenaries Juan Antonio Alfonso González and José Luis Cortés to carry out the assassination.

He also relates that the then President of Algeria, Houari Boumédiène, was personally concerned about the matter and ordered the arrest without further cause of all the Spaniards who were in the capital and the withholding of their passports; that was how Cubillo recognized his attackers.

[14] A year after the events, Jordi Sierra i Fabra published the novel En canarias se ha puesto el Sol ("The Sun has set in the Canary Islands").

This novel deals with a hypothetical wave of MPAIAC attacks, including the hijacking in Barcelona of a train loaded with plutonium and a massacre at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium with several thousand dead, followed by the invasion of the Canary Islands by Algerian submarines.