Operation Gladio

[Paul Rigby]

1990 Washington Post article on Andreotti's revelations about Gladio:

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%...m%2001.pdf

A 1976 NYT article about James Angleton's involvement in secretly training Eastern European paramilitary forces:

http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%...m%2007.pdf

Articles on NATO's secret cells called gladio

The following compilation of articles from external sources is presented in the hope that they will be useful but Clarion is not responsible for their content:

http://www.cambridgeclarion.org/gladio.html

The articles are in chronological order, based on stated date of publication, with the most recent at the top of the page.

Television review: A Gladio-style "stay-behind" network in Britain

Stephen Hewitt, , 13 March 2006
Notes on a television programme programme that describes the setting up in Britain of a secret Gladio-style "stay-behind" network under the pretext of the threat of a German invasion.

Complete article: http://www.cambridgeclarion.org/tv/gladi...r2006.html

US 'supported anti-left terror in Italy'

Philip Willan, Guardian, 24 June 2000, page 19
First paragraph:

The United States was accused of playing a large part in the campaign of anti-communist terrorism in Italy during the cold war in a report released yesterday by the Left Democrat party.
Full article: http://www.cambridgeclarion.org/press_cu...n2000.html

A CIA Gladio-style "stay-behind" network in Iraq?

"In the early 1950s the CIA had been visibly the poor relation in Iraq to British intelligence, which effectively ran much of the Baghdad Pact, the alliance of countries in the region close to the Soviet border. Donald Wilber, a CIA officer who had assisted in the Iran operation in 1953, recalled his experiences in Baghdad"... "The CIA was keen to develop a GLADIO-type network in Iraq and to 'plant communications and demolitions to be used by stay-behind agents' in case the Russians made an advance into the area."... "The hidden hand Britain, America and cold war secret intelligence", Richard J. Aldrich, John Murray, 2001, page 582-3

GLADIO Europe's best kept secret

Hugh O'Shaughnessy, Guardian, 7 June 1992, pages 53-54
More snippets of information about Gladio, with the usual apologist gloss. One snippet, that is not in other articles so far indexed on this page, is the refusal of Britain to extradite back to Italy one Roberto Fiore, wanted for questioning about the terrorist bombings on Italian railways, and the British government's response on this matter to Harry and Shirley Mitchell of Bath, whose daughter was one of the 86 people murdered with a bomb at Bologna railway station in 1980.

Full article
UK trained secret Swiss force

Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian, 20 September 1991, page 7
First paragraph:

British secret services collaborated closely with an armed, undercover Swiss organisation which formed part of a west European network of "resistance" groups, it was officially disclosed yesterday.
Complete article
Secret agents, freemasons, fascists... and a top-level campaign of political 'destabilisation'

Ed Vulliamy, Guardian, 5 December 1990, page 12
First paragraph:

'I CAN say that the head of the secret services has repeatedly and unequivocally excluded the existence of a hidden organisation of any type or size," the Italian Minister of Defence, Giulio Andreotti, told a judicial inquiry in 1974 into the alleged existence of a secret state army.
Full article
The Gladio File: did fear of communism throw West into the arms of terrorists?

Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian, 5 December 1990, page 12
First paragraph:

A CHANCE discovery by an assiduous Italian magistrate investigating a neo-fascist terrorist attack has unearthed a secret paramilitary network run by units of the armed forces and intelligence services throughout western Europe.
Full article
How MI6 and SAS joined in

David Pallister, Guardian, 5 December 1990, page 12 "David Pallister on 'stay behind' strategy" Full article
Gladio is still opening wounds

Charles Richards, Independent, 1 December 1990, page 12
First two sentences:

OPERATION GLADIO has been dismantled. General Paolo Inzerilli, chief of staff of the Italian security service Sismi, told the parliamentary commission on terrorism that the Prime Minister issued the order on Wednesday.
Full article
Secret Italian unit 'trained in Britain'

Richard Norton-Taylor/David Gow, Guardian, 17 November 1990, page 10
Third paragraph:

General Gerardo Serravalle, who said the Italians trained at a military base in Britain, was giving evidence yesterday in Rome to a parliamentary committee of inquiry into allegations that Gladio was linked to a series of rightwing terrorist attacks in Italy between 1969 and the early 1980s.
Full article
Nato's secret network 'also operated in France'

Guardian, 14 November 1990, page 6
First paragraph:

A BRANCH of the Nato-linked European anti-communist resistance network, which Italian investigators fear may have been involved in neo-fascist atrocities in Italy, also operated in France, the former defence minister, Jean-Pierre Chevènement, has disclosed.
Full article.