 It was a private security contractor, the group's purpose was to recruit and operate security contractors to prevent the spread of communism worldwide.The French "Nouvel Observateur" magazine, of 23 September 1974, qualifies the group as a "strange temporary work agency of mercenaries" ("étrange agence d’interim-barbouzes"); in "The Great Heroin Coup" (1976), Henrik Krüger calls it a "fascist group" or "neo-fascist group", while Stuart Christie speaks of it as a "security consultancy group" in "Granny Made me an Anarchist".