Yves Guérin-Sérac (), born Yves Guillou (; also known as Jean-Robert de Guernadec or Ralf; 2 December 1926 – 9 March 2022) was a French anti-Communist

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activist, former officer of the

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(1950–53) and the

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(1955–62). He was also a member of the elite troop of the ''11ème Demi-Brigade Parachutiste de Choc'', which worked with the SDECE (French intelligence agency), and a founding member of the

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(OAS), a French terrorist group that fought against Algerian independence in 1961-62. After fleeing to

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, where he and many other fugitive OAS members were granted refuge, Guérin-Sérac continued his far-right activities. It is alleged that he was an instigator of the so-called strategy of tension in

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, and the main organizer of the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing.

Iberian peninsula

Following the suppression of the OAS by the French government, Guérin-Sérac fled to Spain. He was sentenced to three years in prison in absentia. In June 1962, after the 18 March 1962 Évian Accords that put an end to the Algerian War, Guérin-Sérac was hired 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." Guérin-Sérac met Petainist Jacques Ploncard d'Assac in Portugal, who introduced him to the right-wing establishment and to Portugal's

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, the PIDE. Due to his extensive knowledge, Guérin-Sérac was recruited as an instructor for the paramilitary '' Legião Portuguesa'', and for the counterguerrilla unit of the Portuguese army. According to the magistrate Guido Salvini, in charge of the investigations concerning the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, " Guido Giannettini ne of the neo-fascists responsible for the bombinghad contacts with Yves Guérin-Sérac in Portugal ever since 1964."

Neo-Templarism

Guillou was a member of the neo-Templar order the Sovereign Order of the Solar Temple. After arguments in 1981, the group schismed into two, one which embraced a more

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and mystic appeal, and the other maintaining the original militant and Templar origins; Guillou and some of his associates joined the former.

Aginter Press

It was within this context that in 1965 he founded, along with Italian neofascist Stefano Delle Chiaie, Aginter Press, a secret anti-communist army, with the support of both the PIDE and the U.S.

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, " t.. 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." "During this period, disclosed Guérin-Sérac, we have systematically established close contacts with like-minded groups emerging in urrent and former colonial powersItaly, Belgium, Germany, Spain and Portugal, for the purpose of forming the kernel of a truly Western League of Struggle against Marxism." On 31 January 1968, Guérin-Sérac met Pino Rauti, then leader of '' Ordine Nuovo'', who would rejoin the fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) the following year. In the 1970s, Guérin-Sérac was in contact with Leo Negrelli, former chief press attaché of the

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.Corrado Incerti, Sandro Ottolenghi and Piero Raffaell
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'' L'europeo'', 1974

Death

Guérin-Sérac died on 9 March 2022 aged 95 in a

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at Le Revest-les-Eaux, where he had been hospitalized since 2017 due to

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