After the period of the PP Governments, one of the advances that has not materialized is the updating of the Official Secrets Law (LSO), in contrast to the progress recorded in the opening of archives, the growing distance with respect to to the years of the dictatorship, the appearance on the scene of new problems and generations or of a political panorama from which it is necessary to face the challenges not only of the present but also of the future. All of this in an unpredictable panorama and with reactionary movements that continue to evoke the supposed years of “glory” and “peace” of the dictatorship.
In this panorama I wanted to know whether or not my assessments of what happened in the years 1952 and 1953 and its immediate evolution in relations with the United States resist documentary verification. Maybe because there is no definitive story. Also because in recent years I am one of the many historians who have benefited from the policy of relative openness of military archives on the civil war and the postwar period. Equally because even in the super sacrosanct archives of the Ministries of Justice and the Interior, young historians, and others not so young, have been able to work and shed light on some hitherto inaccessible areas. For example, the treatment given to homosexuals under Franco or the organization and, to a certain extent, activities of the Political-Social Brigade. I have learned a lot from them.
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