Agustín Remiro
1904–1942
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- trade unionist
Agustín Remiro Manero (28 August 1904 – 21 June 1942) was a Spanish anarchist activist, a soldier during the Spanish Civil War and later foreign agent for MI6.
Incarceration history
- Argelès-sur-Mer concentration campDates unknown
- Porlier prisonDates unknown
Biography
Agustín Remiro Manero (28 August 1904 – 21 June 1942) was a Spanish anarchist activist, a soldier during the Spanish Civil War and later foreign agent for MI6. Born in the small town of Epila, he became an anarchist at a young age and engaged in trade union organising for the National Confederation of Labour (CNT). After fighting in the Rif War, he organised clandestine affinity groups in his home town to resist the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. During the years of the Second Spanish Republic, he led strike actions and participated in the anarchist insurrection of December 1933. Following the outbreak of the civil war, he fought as a guerrilla for the Durruti Column and later joined the Popular Army of the Republic as a regular soldier. He fought on the Aragon front throughout the war, before fleeing the country during the Catalonia Offensive in early 1939. He then helped to smuggle refugees with the Ponzán group and joined MI6 as an operative. During missions for the British in Iberia, he was caught in Portugal and handed over to the Francoist dictatorship, which sentenced him to death.