Page "La Cagoule" Paragraph 2

The group performed assassinations, bombings, sabotage of armaments, and other violent activities, some intended to cast suspicion on communists and add to political instability.

Planning a November 1937 overthrow of the government, La Cagoule was infiltrated by the police, and the national government arrested and imprisoned about 70 men.

At the outbreak of World War II, the government released the men to fight in the French Army.

Some supported other right-wing organizations and participated in Vichy government ; others joined the Free French of Charles de Gaulle.

It was not until 1948 that the government tried surviving members for the charges of 1937.