Career
Tejero entered the Guardia Civil in 1951 with the rank of Lieutenant and was sent to Catalonia. In 1958 he was promoted to Captain, and was posted to Galicia, Velez-Malaga and the Canary Islands. In 1963 he was promoted to Major, and served in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Badajoz. In 1974 he became a Lieutenant Colonel, serving as the leader of the Comandancia in the Basque province of Guipúzcoa, but had to ask to be transferred to another region when his public declarations against the Basque flag, the Ikurriña, became known. For his accomplishments in Vascongadas, and in combating the ETA, he was named Chief of the Planning Staff of the Civil Guard in Madrid. But along the way, he had also begun to accumulate a record of incidents of dissent.
In 1978 Tejero, Police Captain Ricardo Sánez de Ynestrillas and an Army General Staff Colonel, whose name has not been made public, attempted a coup d'état, known as Operation Galaxia. He was condemned to prison for mutiny after the collapse of the attempted coup. Tejero was in prison seven months and seven days.
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