José Finat y Escrivá de Romaní

He entered public life in Toledo as a political protégé of the Count of Romanones in the last years of the reign of Alfonso XIII.

After the establishment of the Second Republic his opinions became radicalized and he became a supporter of the Spanish Falange, a party that was soon incorporated into the larger national syndicalist movement.

[2] He participated in the elections of 1933 and 1936, running under the banner of the Popular Action Party and the Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Right-wing Groups (CEDA).

As DGS, he arrested and detained Lluís Companys, the President of Catalonia, who was put on trial and executed by firing squad in 1940.

This cooperation involved Paul Winzer, the head of the Gestapo in Madrid, who was directing an instruction program for Franco's secret police.