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Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Sunday, July 31 2011, 14:07:28 (UTC)
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No history course I've had in High School ever even mentioned U.S.'s involvement in attempting to destabilize the Soviet Union and other socialist countries through dirty tricks, false flag operations, and just sheer violence. "Operation Gladio" was just one of the covert op.s that began immediately after the end of the second war, consisting of the C.I.A. and other Western European intelligence agencies, in organizing violent Fascist groups and enabling them, for instance, to blow up (specifically) crowded markets full of women and children, and through disinformation disseminating that the acts were taken by ultra-Leftist groups, which worked in isolating the Italian Communist Party, and undermining any chance they had in having the potential power and support they may have had in the post-Mussolini period.
(This is from wikipedia and should explain it better than I can)
I can' fit the whole page on, so I'll just leave the first two paragraphs and the link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

Emblem of "Gladio", Italian branch of the NATO "stay-behind" paramilitary organizations. The motto means "In silence I preserve freedom".Operation Gladio (Italian: Organizzazione Gladio) is the codename for a clandestine NATO "stay-behind" operation in Italy after World War II. Its purpose was to continue anti-communist actions in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion of Western Europe. Although Gladio specifically refers to the Italian branch of the NATO stay-behind organizations, "Operation Gladio" is used as an informal name for all stay-behind organizations, sometimes called "Super NATO". The name Gladio is the Italian form of gladius, a type of Roman shortsword.[1]

Operating in many NATO and even some neutral countries,[2] Gladio was part of a series of national operations first coordinated by the Clandestine Committee of the Western Union (CCWU), founded in 1948. After the creation of NATO in 1949, the CCWU was integrated into the Clandestine Planning Committee (CPC), founded in 1951 and overseen by SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe), transferred to Belgium after France’s official withdrawal from NATO's Military Committee in 1966 — which was not followed by the dissolution of the French stay-behind paramilitary movements.

The role of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in sponsoring Gladio and the extent of its activities during the Cold War era, and its relationship to right-wing terrorist attacks perpetrated in Italy during the "Years of Lead" (late 1960s to early 1980s) and other similar clandestine operations is the subject of ongoing debate and investigation. Italy, Switzerland and Belgium have had parliamentary inquiries into the matter.[3]

[edit] OriginsThe origin of Gladio can be traced to the so-called "secret anti-Communist NATO protocols", which were allegedly protocols committing the secret services of NATO member states to work to prevent communist parties from coming to power in Western Europe. According to the Italian researcher Mario Coglitore, the protocols required member states to guarantee alignment with the Western block "by any means". According to US journalist Arthur Rowse, a secret clause exists in the North Atlantic Treaty requiring candidate countries, before joining NATO, to establish clandestine citizen cadres standing ready to eliminate communist cells during any national emergency. These clandestine cadres were to be controlled by the country's respective security services.[4]

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Arguing Libya Marcello - Sunday, July 31 2011, 9:16:55 (UTC)
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