The global power of freemasonry - Gnostic Liberation Front

When General Miguel Primo de Rivera came to power in Spain in
1925, he ordered freemasonry banned in his country. In September
1928 he closed down the Grande Oriente and other subversive lodges.
After the 1931 revolution they were, however, all reopened.
The most effective opponent of freemasonry was the Spanish head
of state General Francisco Franco (a Christian Jew). He knew there
was a real masonic conspiracy. The masonic leaders of the Supreme
Council, of the 33° in Washington, D. C. in the autumn of 1936 urged
their communist and socialist henchmen the world over to support
the reds in the Spanish Civil War and fight against Franco. They
influenced the policy of several governments.
The various masonic supreme councils around the world convened
as early as 1931 in the heavily masonic-infested city of Havana,
Cuba, to hold an international congress to discuss common issues
concerning the political changes the world was facing.
In 1938, Franco issued a decree ordering all symbols connected
with freemasonry to be obliterated from the gravestones of free-
masons buried in Spain. Freemasonry was a criminal offence,
punishable by prison for any man ever to have been connected with
the Order, or anyone who did not denounce freemasonry and reveal
to the police the names of all freemasons with whom they had been
associated (Hamilton, "Freemasonry: A Prisoner of War," official
organ of the Supreme Council 33°, The New Age, November 1948, pp.
655-656).
On 2 March 1940, Franco issued a decree "for the suppression of
communism and freemasonry" making masonic membership a crime
punishable by six year in prison for those below the 18th degree. The
assets of the lodges were confiscated. Many freemasons were tried
before tribunals and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. A
special Spanish military court was created to suppress freemasonry.
About 2000 men were imprisoned for up to 30 years, depending on
their rank and activity within the freemasonry (Hamilton, "Free-
masonry: A Prisoner of War", The New Age, November 1948, p. 655).
Franco's minister of justice claimed that only 950 Masons had been
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