Narcis Serra

Narcis Serra      (economist, politician)
Born	30 May 1943
Nationality	Spanish
Alma mater	Autonomous University of Barcelona
Party	PSOE
Spanish economist & politician. Minister of Defence during the GAL death squad years. Deputy Prime Minister of Spain 1991-95. Mentioned by IfS  Deputy Prime Minister of Spain In office 13 March 1991 - 3 July 1995  Spain/Minister of Defence In office 3 December 1982 - 13 March 1991 Preceded by Alberto Oliart  Mayor of Barcelona In office 19 April 1979 - 2 December 1982

Narcís Serra i Serra is a Spanish economist and politician, who was Deputy Prime Minister of Spain from 1991 to 1995.

Minister of Defence

He was Minister of Defence between 1982 and 1991. During the years 1983 until 1987, the GAL (an acronym for Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación, "Antiterrorist Liberation Groups") were active. These were death squads illegally established by officials of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE)-led governments. to fight against ETA, the principal Basque separatist militant group.

Spied on everybody

In 2021, former banker Mario Conde assured that Prime Minister Felipe González and Serra "controlled the [intelligence service] Cesid and used it for their purposes by embezzling money from the Spaniards". The former banker calls Serra a "regrettable character" and accuses him of using his power in those positions "to spy on everyone who seemed important to him, including the King", Juan Carlos I.

Conde adds that it was the former Secretary of State Julián Sancristóbal, with whom he happened to be in prison together with after being convicted of the GAL plot, who told him in prison that "Serra told him that the Bourbons had to be controlled because history showed that they were very dangerous because they had no loyalties to anyone."

Dossier Crillon

In 1992, Serra had asked the former director general of the Civil Guard, Luis Roldan, to hire a Kroll Associates, a private investigation agency and suspected front for the CIA, to look into Banesto bank president Mario Conde's business dealings and possible involvement in arms deals. Serra spent $750,000 from the reserve funds of the Interior Ministry on the private investigation.

Roldan disappeared for a time in 1994 as a judge prepared to bring corruption charges against him. In a secret interview with El Mundo, Roldan threatened to release information that would damage the government. 'I will not go to prison alone,' he said. Roldan showed El Mundo part of the official report, in English, and a bill for $500,000 from the Kroll Associates investigation agency in 1992.

He told the newspaper that copies of the report, known as the 'Dossier Crillon', were given to Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez, Serra and former Finance Minister Carlos Solchaga. Neither the then Interior Minister Jose Luis Corceura, nor the Secretary of State for Security, Rafael Vera, were informed of the investigation, according to Roldan.

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Boris Tadić	“In Serbia, for example, we used the Club de Madrid to get the former Spanish MOD, Narcis Serra, to act as mentor to the then MOD Boris Tadic. I brought Tadic to London via the Atlantic Treaty Association (of which IfS is now the UK Rep) to expand his horizons and link him to MPs. He eventually became President.”	Boris Tadić Chris Donnelly	15 October 2018

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1990	10 May 1990	13 May 1990	New York US Glen Cove	38th Bilderberg meeting, 119 guests
Bilderberg/1991	6 June 1991	9 June 1991	Germany Baden-Baden Steigenberger Hotel Badischer Hof	The 39th Bilderberg, 114 guests

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