Luis Carrero Blanco

{{main|Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco}}

{{main|Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco}}

[[File:Placa Carrero Blanco.jpg|thumb|Memorial plaque at the place of the assassination of Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco.]]

[[File:Placa Carrero Blanco.jpg|thumb|Memorial plaque at the place of the assassination of Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco.]]

Six months after being named prime minister, and the day after a meeting with the [[United States Secretary of State]] [[Henry Kissinger]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Llanos Martínez |first=Héctor |date=2023-5-12|title=La visita de Kissinger horas antes del asesinato de Carrero Blanco: la serie que ahonda en “el ‘true crime’ más relevante de la España reciente”|trans-title=|url=https://elpais.com/television/2023-12-05/la-visita-de-kissinger-horas-antes-del-asesinato-de-carrero-blanco-la-serie-que-ahonda-en-el-true-crime-mas-relevante-de-la-espana-reciente.html|url-status= |archive-url=https://elpais.com/television/2023-12-05/la-visita-de-kissinger-horas-antes-del-asesinato-de-carrero-blanco-la-serie-que-ahonda-en-el-true-crime-mas-relevante-de-la-espana-reciente.html|archive-date=|access-date=2021-11-16 |website=[[El Pais]] |location=Madrid |language=es-ES |issn=}}</ref>

Six months after being named prime minister, Carrero Blanco was assassinated on 20 December 1973 in Madrid by four members of an [[ETA (separatist group)|ETA]] cell, who carried out a bombing near San Francisco de Borja Church on Calle de Serrano while he returned from daily mass in a Spanish [[Barreiros (manufacturer)#The Spanish Dodge Dart|Dodge 3700]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Michiel de Jong|editor=R. Beeres|display-editors=et. al.

, Carrero Blanco was assassinated on 20 December 1973 in Madrid by four members of an [[ETA (separatist group)|ETA]] cell, who carried out a bombing near San Francisco de Borja Church on Calle de Serrano while he returned from daily mass in a Spanish [[Barreiros (manufacturer)#The Spanish Dodge Dart|Dodge 3700]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Michiel de Jong|editor=R. Beeres|display-editors=et. al.

|title=NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2016|year=2016|publisher=T.M.C. Asser Press|location=The Hague|isbn=978-94-6265-135-7|pages=325–349|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-135-7_17|chapter=Spanish Security Forces, Anti-terrorism and the Internal and External Security of Spain, 1959–1992|doi=10.1007/978-94-6265-135-7_17 }}</ref>

|title=NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2016|year=2016|publisher=T.M.C. Asser Press|location=The Hague|isbn=978-94-6265-135-7|pages=325–349|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-135-7_17|chapter=Spanish Security Forces, Anti-terrorism and the Internal and External Security of Spain, 1959–1992|doi=10.1007/978-94-6265-135-7_17 }}</ref>