Spain's government declassified 40 intelligence reports and communications reports showing that the country's spy agency, the National Intelligence Centre, had warned both the Spanish and Moroccan governments on July 29 of plans for migrants to storm Ceuta the following day by sea or over the border fence, citing social media posts with hundreds of thousands of followers, Reuters reported Sept. 9. Spanish officials maintain they did not foresee the scale of the subsequent July 30 migration surge .