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11-24-2005, 06:44 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladio#Gladio_in_Germany
Operation Gladio was a clandestine "stay-behind" operation sponsored by the CIA and NATO to counter communist influence in Italy, as well as in other European countries. While Gladio is usually used to refer to only the Italian "stay-behind", the term has also been applied to all other "stay-behind" operations. It is widely believed that NATO stay-behind armies existed in all countries of Western Europe during the Cold War. On October 24, 1990, Giulio Andreotti, head of Italian government, acknowledged the existence of a "structure of information, response and safeguard" before the "Camera dei deputati", known as "Operazione Gladio".
Gladio was a secret service operating in all of NATO. It had as central axe the Gehlen Org, and was coordinated by the Clandestine Planning Committee, the multi-national organ overseen from Belgium by SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe). Gladio also had strong ties to the CIA, which financed most of its operations. CIA founder Allen Dulles is said to be one of the key people in instituting Operation Gladio. Aldo Moro (who was assassinated by the Red Brigades) also has been named as one of the key figure in organizing Gladio.
In an article dated November 13, 1990 and published by the "International Herald Tribune", Joseph Fitchett talks about the "Nato resistance", and says that those anti-communist networks, which were partly funded by CIA, where presents in all of Europe, including neutral countries like Sweden or Switzerland. In french newspaper "Le Monde" of November 7, 1990, a Gladio official says that "depending on the cases, we would block or encourage far-left or far-right terrorism" [1]. This is usually refered to as the Strategy of tension.
The main aim of Operation Gladio was to counter a possible invasion by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact of Western Europe through sabotage and guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines. NATO feared the fact that Soviet Union possessed a vast superiority in conventional military power. It was feared that Western Europe and NATO could not hope to defeat the Red Army in a direct conflict without resorting to the use of nuclear weapons.
NATO's "stay-behind" organizations represented a way to fight on in case of defeat by the overwhelming military might of the Soviet Union. Its clandestine "cells" were to stay behind (hence the name) in enemy controlled territory and to act as resistance movements, conducting sabotage, guerrilla warfare and assassinations, as well as other clandestine, non-conventional resistance, such as "false flag operations" and terror attacks were considered.
Operation Gladio was a clandestine "stay-behind" operation sponsored by the CIA and NATO to counter communist influence in Italy, as well as in other European countries. While Gladio is usually used to refer to only the Italian "stay-behind", the term has also been applied to all other "stay-behind" operations. It is widely believed that NATO stay-behind armies existed in all countries of Western Europe during the Cold War. On October 24, 1990, Giulio Andreotti, head of Italian government, acknowledged the existence of a "structure of information, response and safeguard" before the "Camera dei deputati", known as "Operazione Gladio".
Gladio was a secret service operating in all of NATO. It had as central axe the Gehlen Org, and was coordinated by the Clandestine Planning Committee, the multi-national organ overseen from Belgium by SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe). Gladio also had strong ties to the CIA, which financed most of its operations. CIA founder Allen Dulles is said to be one of the key people in instituting Operation Gladio. Aldo Moro (who was assassinated by the Red Brigades) also has been named as one of the key figure in organizing Gladio.
In an article dated November 13, 1990 and published by the "International Herald Tribune", Joseph Fitchett talks about the "Nato resistance", and says that those anti-communist networks, which were partly funded by CIA, where presents in all of Europe, including neutral countries like Sweden or Switzerland. In french newspaper "Le Monde" of November 7, 1990, a Gladio official says that "depending on the cases, we would block or encourage far-left or far-right terrorism" [1]. This is usually refered to as the Strategy of tension.
The main aim of Operation Gladio was to counter a possible invasion by the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact of Western Europe through sabotage and guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines. NATO feared the fact that Soviet Union possessed a vast superiority in conventional military power. It was feared that Western Europe and NATO could not hope to defeat the Red Army in a direct conflict without resorting to the use of nuclear weapons.
NATO's "stay-behind" organizations represented a way to fight on in case of defeat by the overwhelming military might of the Soviet Union. Its clandestine "cells" were to stay behind (hence the name) in enemy controlled territory and to act as resistance movements, conducting sabotage, guerrilla warfare and assassinations, as well as other clandestine, non-conventional resistance, such as "false flag operations" and terror attacks were considered.