Fal Conde was released from Jefatura and when Carlism abandoned intransigent opposition to the regime in favor of cautious co-operation, Tejada was left puzzled. He did not hesitate to voice his doubts about collaborative strategy advocated by the new leader Jose Maria Valiente, yet he decided to comply and accepted appointment to the newly formed Secretariat; moreover, at one point he suggested that the body be dissolved as ineffective and replaced by Valiente's personal jefatura. Executing the rapprochement policy he did not believe in its success and was getting increasingly frustrated by Franco's rejection of the Carlist offer. However, he readily engaged in new formats of activity, now permitted by the regime: Tejada was active in the Carlist publishing house Ediciones Montejurra and became its director, animated the elitist Traditionalist periodical Reconquista, contributed to new periodicals like Azada y Asta and especially threw himself into organizing Círculos Culturales Vázquez de Mella, a semi-official Carlist institutional network. In 1960 he entered Comision de Cultura of the Carlist executive and advocated setting up an "Instituto de Estudios Jurídicos". Having moved on longtime scientific research mission to Italy, at the turn of the decades Tejada was getting increasingly detached from daily Carlist politics. Within the Secretariat and numerous cultural outposts he was somewhat sidetracked by a new breed of young activists forming the entourage of prince Carlos Hugo. Though he knew some, especially their leader Ramón Massó, from the Academia Vázquez de Mella years of the 1940s, Tejada developed grave doubts about Carlist orthodoxy and genuine intentions of the hugocarlistas, suspecting them of pursuing a hidden agenda. Co-operation deteriorated into crisis and then open conflict in the early 1960s, when Don Carlos Hugo started to sidetrack most hard-line Traditionalists. Tejada did not illude himself about Don Javier potentially confronting his progressist son, and in July 1962 he decided to break with the Borbón-Parmas; some authors claim that he was expulsed. He declared to Don Carlos Hugo that he could not make him king, but could prevent him from becoming one. In 1963 Tejada already referred to Don Carlos Hugo as "este aventurero francés de sangre bastarda". Carlist: fighting the progressists (1962-1978) After the breakup Tejada did not join any Carlist faction, though he was reportedly sympathetic to RENACE: he liked its format of depositary of Traditionalist values with no support for any specific claimant. He embarked on building a network of institutions marketing