 In the 1960s, Skorzeny set up the Paladin Group, which he envisioned as "an international directorship of strategic assault personnel [that would] straddle the watershed between paramilitary operations carried out by troops in uniform and the political warfare which is conducted by civilian agents".Based near Alicante, Spain, the Paladin Group specialized in arming and training guerrillas.Some of its operatives were recruited by the Spanish Interior Ministry to wage a clandestine war against the terrorist group ETA.