Yves Guerin Serac
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Yves Guerin Serac was a French anti-Communist Catholic activist, former officer of the French army and veteran of the First Indochina War (1945-54), the Korean War (1950-53) and the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62). He was also a member of the elite troop of the 11ème Demi-Brigade Parachutiste du Choc, which worked with the SDECE (French intelligence agency) and a founding member of the OAS (Organisation armée secrète) right-wing terrorist group engaged in the struggle for "French Algeria" [citation needed].
In June 1962, after the 18 March 1962 Evian Accords which put an end to the Algerian War, Yves Guerin Serac was engaged by Franco to engage in operations against the Spanish opposition. He then worked for Salazar's Estado Novo regime in Portugal, which, beside being the last colonial empire, was also in his eyes the last stronghold against Communism and atheism: "The others have laid down their weapons, but not I. After the OAS I fled to Portugal to carry on the fight and expand it to its proper dimensions - which is to say, a planetary dimension."[citation needed] Guerin Serac met Petainist Jacques Ploncard d'Assas in Portugal "whom introduced him to the right-wing establishment and the PIDE. Due to his extensive knowledge Guerin Serac was recruited as instructor for the paramilitary Legião Portuguesa and for the counterguerrilla unit of the Portuguese army. It was within this context that he erected Aginter Press in 1965 as an ultra secret anti-Communist army with the support of both the PIDE and the CIA. Aginter Press set up training camps in which it instructed mercenaries and terrorists in a three-week course in covert action techniques including hands-on bomb terrorism, silent assassination, subversion techniques, clandestine communication and infiltration and colonial warfare."[citation needed] Italian neofascist Stefano Delle Chiaie also participated in the founding of Aginter Press. "During this period, disclosed Guerin Serac, we have systematically established close contacts with like-minded groups emerging in Italy, Belgium, Germany, Spain or Portugal, for the purpose of forming the kernel of a truly Western League of Struggle against Marxism." [citation needed] On January 31, 1968, Guerin Serac met Pino Rauti, then leader of Ordine Nuovo (he would join again the Italian Social Movement (MSI) the next year[citation needed] .
