'When it was dissolved by Franco 3 decades later, the Board for the Advancement of Studies & Scientific Research infrastructure and public funding were handed over to CSIC, which the regime had created to reunite science and faith and to promote Spanish nationalism.' www.science.org/content/arti...
Spain’s largest research organization confronts its dark past
Spanish National Research Council, established under Francisco Franco’s dictatorship, has published the stories of some 500 researchers and support staff purged after civil war
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