THE FASCIST International has held a number of meetings, at least one of them in Spain.
A meeting in Rome last October Included representatives from a number oi European and Laun American countries, including laly, Argentina and spain. Spanish groups represented were Lucna cspanoia Antimarxista. Antiterrorismo ETA (an antibascuc LTOUDT. uuelnlcros Cristo Rey and the Grupos de Acción Sindicalista.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the last ot thess organisations its source finance. Its main backer is Antonio Maria de Oriol — the same Oriol who was kidnapped by GRAPO. Oriol also attended a meeting of the right, the Anticommunist International Alliance in Barcelona on October last year.
According to the Italian magazine Panorama the AIA is the same organisation as the Fascist International. unor was clecica to tng executive body of the AIA, in the company of Belgian Nazi collaborator Leon Dégrelle, who has been resident in Spain since 1945. Was Oriol kidnapped by members of his own organisation?
Also at the Barcelona meetin were British representatives David Stirling, Walter Walker, Jordan and Robert Butler. Stirling TOUnCeB ne SOUSHATHVSSAN and his own private army two years ago.
Walker, a former general, is anotncr Drivalc army conmanacr. Both are considered representatives of the 'respectable' right in Britain. Colin Jordan is the longtime leader of British fascism.
The main topic of discussion at the Rome meeting was a plan of action anniversary Franco's death. It is quite possible that the murders of recent weeks and GRAPO kidnapping planned at tnat meeung.
TRIPLE A Last summer Triple A leaders visited Madrid. Among them was Juan kamon Morales. known te have been involved in the murder of Argentinian Deputy Ortega Pena. A month later there was a series of Domo mes urougnour ooain. tus was the first action atributed to GRAPO.
Spain has long been a haven foi exiled fascists. As we reported las week a number of Italians have been given refuge there. It would seem that, with the successful conclusion of the strategy of tension Argentina, the Triple A leaders are coming to Spain to give the benefit ottneir experience.
The Government has encouraged stones or loreien Daruicipalon !n recent killings to conceal the role of Spanish fascists. he truth of the Fascist International is that Spanish Government was centrail! involved in setting it up.
In 1963 Franco set up the Servicio de Coordinación y Enlace (SCOE) under the direction of the future Prime Minister Carrero Blanco. At one time its headquarters was in a ouliding in -Inei caute Francisco in Madrid. The office was aiso mne nomeor mea CO-ORDINATOR Scue actecasa cooreinator ora number of far right and secret police -organisations. Among tem were French OAS, the Portuguese Latin ,American fascist organisations.
oCOs s oner main oriet was to establish and encourage anti-left commancos. paruiculary in tne Basque country. At the sametime an organised far right began to emerge amongstudents.
The Brigada de Investigación of Social, a branch of the secret police, organised and financed Acción Universitaria Nacional and Defensa Universitaria.
Ministry, then run by Fraga Irivatore Francia pania barne, now an arch 'liberal', also 30-31 financed these organisations.
A central role was played by secret police chief Colonel recentiv rerurneo rom 1та101п. anti-subversive techniques in Vir ginia, USA.
The AUN ran courses in weapon ralnme anetecnncues oramano! and propaganda. It saw its role as stimulating a May 1968 in reverse. Its main training manual was Mein Kampf.
When the AUN dissolved, its members joined a Colin policemen in forming the Guerrilleros de Cristo Rey. the Guerrileros is Sanchez-Covisa recently released from prison by the Suarez Government Various far right organisations have carried out terror actions ove the past four years. Hardly any of them have been arrested.
It was after the assassination of Carrero Blanco that there were first reports of coordinated international action in Spain. This was said to involve the itanan Ordine Nuovo, the French Force Nouvelle and te cla. Apart rrom us roie in SCOE, CIA involvement has never -were been established. But the involvement or omer Tascist groups nas become brutally obvious in recent MORUIS The best documented instance was the Monteiurra killing exposed Dy mne rrenca Trotskyist Roure. The Carlist Partv. once a bastion of the right wing but now a left-wing opposition party, held its annual festival on the mountain of Montejurra last summer. attacked shot and killed two people. The Civil Guard stood by and did nothing.
Kouge revealed Inat the man in the raincoat on the right of the accompanying photograph was the killer. He is José Luis Garcia Verde. His brother is Hermenegildo Garcia Llorente, who, as we reported last week, was the main link between the Spanish and Argentinian fascists.
Even THOIC interesting is the The second and concluding part of CHRIS O'BRIEN'S investigation into the international links of the Spanish far delle Chiaie, the Italian fascist who, as we reported last week, is the orains penina tne tension. Also present were Salvatore rranca dele iate serow conspirator in the Brescia massacre In 1914, ana cmmo ci enacal, a member of the Argentinian Triple REFUGE Intormation Delle Chiaie was given refuge in Spain by José Antonio Girón, former Franco minister and leader ol mne resocclaoe nent. aens vila at Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol.
Both delle Chiaie and Francia were employed for a time in the shipping firm run by Luis Garcia Rodriguez, a notorious gun-runner and another key figure on the Spanish far right.
They were also employed by a firm which imported and exported fish. This firm just happened to be Tocatec n ne same ounele as unc newspaper of Blas Pinar's far right Quintero, organisation ruerza Nueva The Italian connection continues. Last week Pierluizi Concutell was arrested in Rome for the urUCOrHc uur Occorsio last July.
Madrid at the time of the murder of the labour lawyers last month and is reckoned judge dealing with his case to have been one of those responsible. He number of Is aiso known to nave paracipaico in anti-ETA commandos in the The leaders of basoue •COUnTY friend of delle Chiaie.
INTERESTING Unfortunately we do not have a photograph of the most interesting person to turn up with the rightwing Montejurra:
similar place in rortugal. leaflets have been tion Ordine Nuovo.
strategy departure secret police Vittorio He was in by the Italian He is a good Antonio the first escalation of activities of the far right has taken particulal distributed by yourns in brown snirts with swastika armbands announcing a rally decline. sponsorca Dy te Hanan orgamsa SRIS The strategy of tension is.a TIEN ETCTTOTISI traditional methods of fascism. It does not require a politicised mass move in Spain. ment but only a handful of hired gunmen and some contacts in the These are easy But at the same time it has none of the advantages for the ruling class of traditional fascism. Withoul dass movemene tEs com Deen major pletely incapable of smashing the organisauions or ene working cass Even in Argentina, where the Strategy has succeeded, a massive campaign of strikes and sabotage chacar, me vackar man mocen oanmno caucni and une person nextto nim . still makes the bosition dictatorship precarious.
In Italy the Brescia massacre was answered by numerous strikes and the isolation of the fascists, contributing to their snarp electora -reDonnaS existence of an international far neWWOrK DULUEC main conclusion should not be a conspiracy theory of recent events Both the Government and the reformist parties of the working class would prefer to pin responsibility on the international rascists ratner tnan deal with tne fascists in Spain itself. Indeed, as we have shown, the Spanish Gov ernment and security forces have COnS DUOTS CO BIS 1N0Fascist International.
arne Areenunan TCrOEMISIS ar tempted to institutionalise conflict arcelCH Peron Instead, many of the rank and file repression . Notice the medal on his left pock rded to him when he served with Franco's Blue Division in th leaders of the working class have been wiped out. The Portuguese reformists failed to bring fascists to popular justice. Now they are active again.
The Italian Communist Party newspaper l'Unita answers fascists with condemnations of left wing "terrerism'. Spanish Communist Party puts ful confi dence in the Government of the acLatOrsnD deal with the fascists. The Government's answer has been to arrest 1,200 members of far left organisations and a handful of foreign fascists The self defence of the Spanish working class is beginning. In the Basque country pickets have successfully resisted attacks on workCass ne g Dou noods. •WIHC the Roca strikers have defended mer racory ane une nouse their rank and file leaders. Only that sort of action can stop the fascist terror.
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