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Title: Lobo - Wolf

Synopsis:

Lobo is inspired by the life of Mikel Lejarza, aka Lobo (wolf), the Spanish secret agent who infiltrated ETA between 1973 and 1975. Lobo contributed to the fall of one quarter of the terrorist activists of the organisation, representing 150 collaborators – including several Special Forces members and some top-level figures of the group.

Lejarza’s infiltration destabilised the terrorist organization at a time when its actions where becoming a perfect justification for the most conservative arm of the Franco regime to take full powers and stop the democratic process in Spain. The Lobo operation stopped terrorists’ plans to escape from the prison they where held at and a campaign of blind attacks. These demonstrations of power to a dying dictatorship intended to provoke the army to ensure the action – repression – action spiral.