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Controversial Swiss master-spy dies in Ireland Posted on <http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/01-708/> April 26, 2011 by intelNews <http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/author/intelligencenews/> | Albert Bachmann Albert Bachmann By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | One of Switzerlands most controversial Cold War figures, who set up a clandestine guerrilla unit to combat a feared Soviet invasion, has died in Cork, Ireland. Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger has said <http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweiz/standard/Der-Spion-der-aus-den-Alpen-ka m-/story/23721555> last week that Colonel Albert Bachmann, who headed Switzerlands military intelligence force, the Untergruppe Nachrichtendienst der Armee (UNA), from 1976 until 1979, died on April 12. Although Bachmann was a communist in his student years, he later headed Projekt-26 <http://archiv.ethlife.ethz.ch/e/articles/sciencelife/NatoGeheimarmee.html> (P-26), a clandestine project to set up a left-behind force of Swiss guerrillas trained in sharp shooting, bombing and assassination techniques. The guerrilla force was designed to engage the Soviet military if it ever invaded Switzerland. In the late 1970s, Colonel Bachmann also secured government funds to purchase the 200-acre Liss Ard country estate near the Irish town of Skibbereen, in west Cork. The estate was to be used as a base for a Swiss government-in-exile following a feared Soviet invasion of central Europe. Furthermore, the basement of one of the two manors on the estate was designated as a secret depository of Switzerlands gold reserves, in the event of a Soviet invasion of the Alpine country. However, Colonel Bachmann was forced to retire in 1980, after Switzerlands Minister of Defense, Georges-André Chevallez, discovered the existence of P-26, which had apparently been set up without ministerial approval. The project, however, continued under different names, until the Swiss government dissolved it completely in November of 1990, following an official investigation. The investigation criticized P-26 as an illegal paramilitary program, operating as a clandestine, parallel structure within the Swiss security complex, and lacking governmental authorization or control. Colonel Bachmann had been living in Ireland since his retirement in 1980. He was 81. <http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/01-708/?utm_source=feedbur ner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+intelNewsOrg+%28intelNews.org%29> <http://bit.ly/jp0iCZ> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
