[1] In 1968, he was the lead author of an official civil defence booklet that was distributed throughout the country which provided instructions on how to respond to invasion, through the character of "Wilhelm Eiferli".
'Défense civile' has since been translated for distribution in Japan and Egypt; an attempt by Franco's Spain to buy the right to publish the book was rebuffed by the Swiss military.
[4] Bachmann was not involved in the subsequent political controversy- he was on an undercover mission in the Republic of Biafra, a small nation struggling for independence from Nigeria.
He bought the Liss Ard country estate, near Skibbereen in County Cork in Ireland, as a retreat for a Swiss government-in-exile in the event of an invasion.
[7] The Swiss government sold Liss Ard in the early 1980s, but Bachmann continued to live in the West Cork region following his departure from Switzerland.