After the period of the PP governments, one of the advances that has not materialized is the updating of the Official Secrets Act (LSO), in contrast to the progress recorded in the opening of archives, with the increasing distance compared to the years of the dictatorship, the appearance of new problems and new generations or a political panorama from which we must face the challenges not only of the present but also of the future. All this in an unpredictable panorama and with reactionary movements that continue to evoke the so-called years of “glory” and “peace” of the dictatorship.
In this panorama, I wanted to know whether or not my assessments of what happened in 1952 and 1953 and its immediate evolution in relations with the United States stand up to 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 post-war period. Especially since even in the ultra-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 hitherto inaccessible areas. For example, the treatment of homosexuals under Franco or the organization and, to a certain extent, the activities of the Politico-Social Brigade. I learned a lot from them.
