Aginter Press was founded in Lisbon, Portugal in 1966 by Captain Yves Guerin-Serac as an international anti communist organization operating under the disguise of a press agency. Behind that cover it trained members in bombings, assassinations and other covert and paramilitary techniques on behalf of right wing authoritarian causes, and it has been linked to a number of high profile assassinations and to the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing in Italy.
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international anti-communist mercenary organization disguised as a pseudo-press agency (1966 - 1974)
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inception: 1966
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dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1974
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instance of: news agency
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instance of: mercenary organization
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Aginter Press, also known under the names Order and Tradition (Portuguese: Ordem e Tradição) and Armed Organization Against International Communism (French: Organisation Armée contre le Communisme International), was an international anti-communist mercenary organization disguised as a press agency and active between 1966 and 1974.
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