Pierre Plantard was a life-long Anti-Semite who belonged to that part of French Right-Wing Tradition and French Nationalism that has always been intrinsic with Anti-Semitism.

A French Secret Service Report dated 13 February 1945 discloses how Pierre Plantard first tried to form an Anti-Semitic, Anti-Freemasonic group in 1937 ("The French Union") and then again in 1941 ("French National Renewal") – but when permission was not granted on those two occasions he nevertheless formed a group in 1942 called the Alpha Galates – and was subsequently imprisoned for four months in Fresnes Prison for not registering it with the authorities.

The Alpha Galates was a Right Wing, Anti-Semitic, esoteric Roman Catholic Group that was clearly representative of the French Tradition known as the Grand Occident – in contrast to the Grand Orient that was pro-Republican in nature. The Tradition of the Grand Occident developed into various Orders of Right-Wing Knighthoods by the period of the German Occupation of France.

Why did Pierre Plantard first try to form an Anti-Semitic and Anti-Freemasonic group in 1937? The answer is that it was in 1937 that France got its first Socialist Prime Minister in the form of Léon Blum, who was also a Jew, and who was in charge of the Popular Front, a Left-Wing government that was opposed to Right-Wing fascism. Right-Wing fascists of the period concerned were known to use the slogan, "Better Hitler than Blum". Marechal Franchet d'Esperey, representing the main army link with the semi-secret, semi-mythical Cagoule (or CSAR), as led by Deloncle, plotted the overthrow of the French Republic in 1937 (this would explain the Franchet d’Esperey quotation found in the first issue of Vaincre).

Article Seven of the Statutes of the Alpha Galates is Anti-Semitic in nature:

"The Order is rigorously closed to Jews and to any member who is recognised as belonging to a Judaeo-Masonic order."

The Statutes of the Alpha Galates (also existing in the German language) are dated 1937 – demonstrating that the whole exercise originated from the time of Plantard’s first Order "The French Union".

The organ of the Alpha Galates was called Vaincre – For the Young Knighthood, and an article in the first issue dated 21 September 1942 outlined the goal of the Order thus:

"To put our Fatherland back where it belongs, at the service of its 'true mission', we must eradicate from its soul the dominant pathogens, the hate-filled resentments and the false dogmas such as secularism, godlessness and the corrupt principles of the old democratic Judaeo-freemasonry."

‘Judaeo-freemasonry’ was a reference to the cognate nature of Grand Orient Freemasonry and the French Republic, and the way in which Judaism allegedly controlled it all. It was the belief-system of the Tradition of the Grand Occident – which had an Anti-Semitic Ritual – that it was Judaic rationalism that brought about the French Revolution and the downfall of the French Monarchy. Quoting from a 1938 article written by Paul Le Cour: "There had been the Masonic Congress of Wilhemsbad in 1782, and the malign influence of a German Jew called Weischaupt, who set in train the rationalist movement in the lodges and brought about the bloody revolution of 1793" (Paul Le Cour, ‘The True Freemasonry’, in Atlantis Nr 68; 21 November 1938.).

That the Alpha Galates regarded themselves as being the ones to repair the damage caused by the French Revolution was cited in article in Vaincre dated 21 January 1943:

"The Alpha, which is present everywhere, has abolished its ‘1793’ through its resurrection of 1937"

And in the same article Pierre Plantard wrote:

"I want Hitler's Germany to know that every obstacle to our own plans does harm to him also, for it is the resistance put up by freemasonry that is undermining German might."

Here Plantard highlighted the one thing held in common between French and German Nationalists – Anti-Semitism. Pierre Plantard had written this in response to the way that his Order of the Alpha Galates had been mocked by the pro-Nazi journal Au Pilori – which had also indirectly accused the Order of being Freemasonic in nature by revealing its grades of initiation: "We express our admiration, with complete impartiality, for this new Order of Chivalry, and wish His Druidic Majesty every success in the accomplishment of his Work" (from Au Pilori dated 19 November 1942). It is clear that this was a representation of Right-Wing rivalry between German and French Nationalism – the Alpha Galates were not the only Anti-Semitic, esoteric French Right-Wing group that was on the receiving end of the Nazis.

The 21 January 1943 issue of Vaincre also contained an article by Pierre Plantard entitled Here’s The Truth that was virulently Anti-Semitic and Anti-Freemasonic in nature – accusing the Vichy regime of being in league with French Jews. The article also contained a slightly amended paragraph from Paul Le Cour’s Age of Aquarius which lampooned Freemasonic ritual (Le Cour regarded himself as the inheritor of the Tradition of the Hiéron du Val d’Or and was also staunchly Anti-Semitic and Anti-Freemasonic).

A prologue written to the Here’s The Truth article contained a reference to what seemed to be a profound date to the Alpha Galates – 6 February 1934 (the same date was also referred to in a previous issue of Vaincre dated 21 December 1942):

"Preparations for the coming of Hitler to France had been going on since 1934, following the setback of 6 February - already at that time people wanted to sweep away this rabble of Freemasons because by then the Temple had already been built, but the Freemasons frustrated the manoeuvres of their masters on 6 February 1934, as they did once again in June 1940."

6 February 1934 was a key date in France in relation to the Right Wing. It referred to the ‘Stavisky Affair’. Riots in Paris were staged on that date by the Right Wing (and Monarchists) in opposition to the Radical Socialist government which they accused of having corrupt dealings with a Russian Jew named Serge Alexandre Stavisky – who had been caught dealing in financial fraud in 1933 and then escaped – and following his capture and death in January 1934, the Right had accused the Police of killing Stavisky in order to cover-up the involvement of government officials in the scandal. A long trial in 1935-1936 acquitted all those accused of being involved in the scandal which placed French politics in total disrepute.

That Pierre Plantard continued to be Anti-Semitic during the 1960s when he expressed himself through his Priory of Sion cannot be doubted.

It was during the 1960s that the Vatican II Council was held (the Second Ecumenical Council in 1964 of Pope Paul VI). One of its revised tenets involved tolerance towards Judaism from Roman Catholics.

Pierre Plantard, during the early 1960s, claimed that the Priory of Sion was founded by Godfrey de Bouillon, who was virulently Anti-Semitic – after he had captured Jerusalem in 1099 he herded the Jews there into a synagogue and had set them all alight in one great holocaust oven. Godfrey de Bouillon's ‘Sion’ was an Anti-Semitic Crusader State and not the ‘Jerusalem of Judaism’ – and the idea that the Jerusalem Temple was strictly Catholic in nature was part of the belief-system of the Tradition of the Grand Occident – quoting Paul Le Cour again from his 1938 article:

"If the first temple was Jewish (the Temple of Solomon), the second, after the conquest of Jerusalem by the crusaders, was Christian. It would therefore be a retrograde step only to reconstruct the Jewish temple." (Paul Le Cour, ‘The True Freemasonry’, in Atlantis Nr 68; 21 November 1938.)

Pierre Plantard was to use more quoted material from Paul Le Cour’s Age of Aquarius in Les Dossiers Secrets d’Henri Lobineau (1967) as well as linking the Priory of Sion with the Abbé Georges de Nantes and Monsignor Marcel Lefebvre – both of whom were Conservative, Right-Wing, anti-Vatican Council II, Counter Revolutionist priests.

The whole ‘structure’ of the Priory of Sion was a continuation of the earlier Alpha Galates group – and both were phantom groups that only existed on paper, being nothing more than the manifestation of Pierre Plantard’s fertile imagination.

Finally, the historical reality of Anti-Semitism existing in France to the present day cannot be ignored. There are many websites providing evidence for this historical reality. Here is just one example.