He finished his secondary school at the Sint-Lodewijks College in Bruges (rhetorics 1951) and continued at the University of Louvain.
He continued as member of the staff of the ministers Arthur Gilson (Home Office), André Dequae (Finances), Pierre Wigny (Justice) and Paul-Willem Segers (Defense).
The heads of the secret services of a dozen European countries, including Switzerland, met regularly to exchange information and evaluate sensible dossiers.
For a number of years a minor problem was generated by small extreme right-wing groups, such as Westland New Post and Front de la Jeunesse.
The judgment said: 'It is without doubt that the falsified documents were transmitted by de Bonvoisin to the Belgian police authorities with the purpose of harming Albert Raes'.
At the end of his career, Raes was confronted with disputes about the Belgian stay-behind network, as a result of the dysfunction of parts of a similar organization in Italy.
Of this removal, the former minister of Justice Jean Gol wrote: My successor sacrificed this high ranking civil servant ("ce grand commis") to a sort of "raison d'Etat", made out of a mixture of socialist rancour and the concern of protecting his own image.
Two parliamentary commissions and numerous judicial inquiries revealed nothing which could have tarnished the reputation of this public servant (Librement, p. 167).