The Internal Security Board of Catalonia ( ca, Junta de Seguretat Interior de Catalunya) was a body created in September 1936 as a result of the pact reached by the

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political forces on the one hand and the CNT-FAI on the other. The

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and all democratic parties reached this agreement with the CNT-FAI to try to pacify public safety, severely altered since the July 1936 military coup, under the auspices of the

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organization. This pact involved the dissolution of the

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, replaced in part by the Junta. The militant anarchist

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was appointed general secretary, while in one way or another

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(

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) and Joaquim Olaso i Piera (

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) were also present, as well as Tomàs Fàbregas Valls ( ACR). The Junta was formally an organ of the Generalitat, and therefore subordinate to its government, which assumed the supervision of public order in Catalonia. In practice it meant that it inherited the real power over the Catalan workers' control patrols from the dissolved Committee. The Board was composed of delegates from the Control Patrols, the National Republican Guard, the

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and the

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. However, the control patrols were completely autonomous and were easily carried away by ideological exaltation, as was the case with the

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: it was not until the arrival of the undersecretary of the Presidency of the Generalitat

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, accompanied by the same Aurelio Fernandez, who put a stop to the murders. When the Generalitat ordered the dissolution of the violent control patrols on

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, the Internal Security Board tried to resist; until it was dissolved after the defeat of the CNT-FAI and the

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in the

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