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 Operation Gladio, Clockwork Orange, and P2
Charges are flying that "Gladio" may somehow be behind the resurgence of the Red Brigades in a baroque plot to destabilize Italy's current leftwing governments.
Sources here maintain "Gladio's" elderly veterans have been succeeded by a younger generation of shadow warriors dedicated to combating the still powerful communist influence in Italy.
There, some of the 15,000 members of "Gladio," including senior officers of the army, paramilitary police and intelligence services, were involved in a series of murky intrigues aimed at destabilizing the Italian state and two abortive military coups in 1970 and 1974.
www.freemasonrywatch.org /gladio.html   (912 words)

  
 Operation Gladio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Operation Gladio was a clandestine "stay-behind" operation sponsored by the CIA and NATO to counter communist influence after World War II in Italy, as well as in other European countries, which has been involved in various terrorist acts.
According to the perpetrator of the Oktoberfest bomb blast of 1980 in Munich, the explosives came from a Gladio cache near the village of Uelzen in the Lüneburger Heide.
Operating in all of NATO and even in some neutral countries or in Spain before its 1982 adhesion to NATO, Gladio was first coordinated by the Clandestine Committee of the Western Union (CCWU), founded in 1948.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gladio   (9754 words)

  
 Operation Gladio - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Operation Gladio
Gladio was established in Italy 1958 or earlier, and came under NATO supervision in 1959.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
Code name for the Italian branch of a secret paramilitary network backed by the Central Intelligence Agency and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Allied Coordination Committee, made public and disbanded in 1990.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Operation+Gladio   (149 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Unconventional warfare
Operation Gladio 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.
The United States Department of Defense defines UW as a broad spectrum of military and paramilitary operations, normally of short duration, predominantly conducted by indigenous or surrogate forces who are organized, trained, equipped, supported, and directed in varying degrees by an external source.
It includes guerrilla warfare and other direct offensive, low visibility, covert, or clandestine operations, as well as the indirect activities of subversion, sabotage, intelligence activities, and evasion and escape.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Unconventional-warfare   (1164 words)

  
 1958-1990: Operation Gladio, Italy - libcom.org/history peopleshistory.co.uk
The purpose of Gladio was, (it was apparently disbanded in 1990, despite not officially existing until then) we are told, to act as a resistance group in the event of a 'Warsaw pact invasion', a 'Soviet takeover'.
Gladio was part of a Europe wide network of secret armies of the night established under N.A.T.O. auspices and in Greece, Turkey and Belgium they are believed to have been involved in terrorism and coups d'etat.
Gladio was founded in 1958 by S.I.F.O.R. (Italian secret service, later replaced because it was suspected of involvement in a 1964 coup plot) and the CIA.
www.libcom.org /history/articles/operation-gladio   (820 words)

  
 Third Possibility In Madrid Bombings
Propaganda Due (P2), according to author Robert Anton Wilson, was "probably founded by Licio Gelli sometime in the 1970s, as part of CIA's Gladio operation..." [3] This seems to be the Freemasonic infiltration warned of by Pecorelli, which apparently is still entrenched in the Vatican.
This was called "Operation Gladio" (from Latin, gladius, meaning sword).
Suggested by very few is a third possible suspect, having its roots in the post-World War II "Operation Gladio."
www.shout.net /%7Ebigred/Third.htm   (577 words)

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