Aldo Comas, Freemasonry and the grandfather who covered Spain in cocaine

Aldo Comas, Freemasonry and the grandfather who covered Spain in cocaine

Aldo Comas is a Freemason. And his grandfather, according to the story doing the rounds, covered Spain in cocaine for the CIA. Two claims that would provoke an awkward silence at any dinner table, yet here they are tossed off with the casualness of someone chatting about the weather. The man —rich, married to actress Macarena Gómez and introduced to society as a friend of the Grimaldis— serves as a gateway to a bigger issue: how much truth there is in Spanish Freemasonry, who uses it as a contact network, and why the surname Comas carries a history of border smuggling that nobody ever quite clears up.

The conversation kicks off with a round figure: 37 Freemasons or thereabouts, with no further context. From there, the topic drifts into territory that mixes the lodge with white powder and drawing-room geopolitics.

Who is Aldo Comas and why does his surname matter

The picture being painted is that of a rich fascist and «based», in the ironic sense the term has taken on in certain circles. Married to Macarena Gómez, Comas is linked to Monegasque royalty: he organised Pierre Casiraghi's bachelor party in 2015, held at a castle in the Ampurdán region of Girona. Not a minor detail. Someone who organises a Grimaldi's bash on his own turf is no random upstart; he's someone who has been in the room for a while.

The connection with the Casiraghis extends to weddings and family celebrations, according to the articles cited. And there's a detail that keeps coming up: Comas and his vvife reportedly crossed paths with members of the Monegasque royal family at the Swiss boarding school where they studied. School as an elite factory, of course.

The surname, however, has a murkier history. It is claimed that this Comas is the nephew of the genuinely rich one, and that the family smuggled goods across the border during the Second World War. With whom is never specified. The suspicion hangs in the air: perhaps Jews, perhaps whatever was needed. It's the kind of detail that a serious article would demand documentation for, but here it's thrown out like someone recalling a village rumour.

Freemasonry: contact network or revolving door of power

The most repeated description of Freemasonry has nothing esoteric about it: networking. A convinced atheist, suspected of belonging to the order, sums it up that way. No candle-lit rituals or pacts with higher entities; just people helping each other out, getting each other jobs and making recommendations. The problem, the argument goes, comes when that network has influence over decisions that affect everyone.

The average profile of the Spanish Freemason, based on nearly six years of lodge experience, is a pathetic figure with delusions of grandeur who ends up giving his expert opinion on any social network. Freemasonry is experienced differently depending on the country: in England, France or the United States it wields an influence that Switzerland or Spain simply doesn't see. And it's pointed out that the United States was founded by Freemasons, which gives a sense of the scale.

Some distinguish between Freemasonry for the masses and Royal Arch Freemasonry, the kind that really pulls the strings. The former would be folklore; the latter, something else. And one line of thought holds that the order's underlying mission is to destroy the Catholic Church, something presented as vox populi for anyone who has read the right books. It's not a universal thesis: others deny that the lodge they experienced incited the destruction of anything.

Franco, the 16,000 Freemasons and the list of 3,000

The historical figure that slips into the conversation is striking: Franco killed 16,000 Freemasons from a list of only 3,000. The arithmetic doesn't add up, and that's precisely the joke. Francoist repression of Freemasonry did exist and is documented; the exact figures, as almost always, are bandied about with abandon.

From there it jumps to specific names. Bush and the Skull and Bones society, Eyes Wide Shut as a cultural reference, Trump and Milei as contemporary examples of what is called Guasonic fascism. The conversation mixes levels: American university societies, European lodges and Latin American presidents all thrown into the same bag.

John Wayne also comes up, placed among the Shriners, the philanthropic branch of Freemasonry of which, it is claimed, nobody speaks ill. And D.W. Griffith, the filmmaker of Hollywood's founding racism, whose Jewishness is debated. The credibility of the whole thing is called into question at times: some talk of Templars, of Scots who reached America before Columbus, and of theories straight out of a Dan Brown novel.

The PSOE and the percentage that doesn't add up

The percentage of the adult population that is Guasonic is tiny, but the share of PSOE lawmakers who are Freemasons would, it is claimed, be extremely high. Names are cited: Zapatero and Solbes. The conclusion drawn is that it's that mafia one should worry about, not the chap with the rituals.

It's the classic accusation, the same old one, the kind that never needs evidence because it rests on suspicion. And it coexists with the personal experience of someone who was inside and saw nothing resembling a conspiracy of the state.

From cocaine to ecstasy: the final twist

The conversation, which began with Freemasonry, ends up somewhere else entirely. A personal account of eight hours of sens and cocaine that ends in a bad alucinación: paranoia, existential anguish, dark thoughts. «My whole body hurts, and my soul too», reads one post. The cocaine hadn't been touched for three years, and the conclusion is a «never again» that sounds sincere.

In between, a 24-year-old who owes 320 euros and pays with a gram of coke, and the confession of someone who lets himself be manipulated because he finds it fun. The Comas affair is shelved. So is Freemasonry. In the end, the conversation returns to the topic that really matters: chemistry and its consequences.

What remains is the suspicion that Comas is a regular in these places. And the certainty that the border between the lodge and high society is blurrier than it seems.