Andrés Cassinello, lieutenant general of the Army and key man in the intelligence services in Spain during the Transition, died this Wednesday in Madrid at the age of 97, sources from the Association for the Defense of the Transition have confirmed to EFE that he presidio.
Cassinello (Almería, 1927), He was head of the SECED, the secret services of Franco’s regime before the birth of the CESID in 1977.and later He went on to direct the information services of the Civil Guard.
He was key in the return to Spain of the president of the Generalitat Josep Tarradellasin the legalization of the PCEin the operation galaxy who thwarted the 1978 coup d’état and in the fight against ETA, although he was involved and charged with the crimes of the GAL.
He was dismissed as Chief of Staff of the Civil Guard in 1986 for a press article in which he questioned the actions of the press and Parliament (especially communist deputies) in relation to the Civil Guard.
In 1988 he was promoted to lieutenant general and on the 22nd of the same month he was appointed by the Council of Ministers as captain general of the V Western Pyrenean Military Region (Castilla, Basque Country and Navarra), a position he held until 1991 when he went to the active reserve.
Years later, on May 7, 1996, the judge of the National Court Baltasar Garzón, who was investigating the Oñaederra summary on the first fatal attacks by the GAL, charged him along with generals Sáenz de Santamaría and Rodríguez Galindo with “not implausible indications.” “in the facts.
The judge charged him considering the existence of evidence of his participation in the formation in 1983 of a GAL group in the Intxaurrondo barracks, San Sebastián, and He kept it in that condition for three years before lifting it due to lack of evidence.
In 2007, along with a group of close collaborators of former president Adolfo Suárez, he was one of the founders of the Association for the Defense of the Transition (ADT).
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