Intro
Mainstream Narrative:
Governments and their intelligence services work diligently and lawfully to protect their citizens from any harm caused by terrorist organizations.
Clandestine “stay-behind” NATO and CIA operations of armed resistance were organized in collaboration with several European government intelligence agencies in the decades after World War II. Although ‘Gladio’ specifically refers to the Italian branch, the term ‘Operation Gladio’ is used as an informal name for all the different European operations. These armed groups carried out atrocities and violence against the people in order to enhance and increase state power and control.
Videos
Gladio The Ringmasters – BBC (1 of 3)
1992
This is the first part of a trilogy produced by BBC Timewatch, which analyzes the origins of the Gladio secret network, through conversations with main protagonists.
Based on the idea of Nazi stay-behind agents who remained in the occupied territories after World War II as resistance to the threat of communism, NATO and the CIA, in collaboration with several European intelligence agencies, organized the Gladio network.
Between the end of World War II and the fall of the Soviet Union, teams of secret agents killed innocent civilians to keep Europe “free from communism” and under the influence of their political bosses.
Gladio The Puppeteers – BBC (2 of 3)
1992
This is the second part of a trilogy produced by BBC Timewatch, which analyzes the origins of the Gladio secret network, through conversations with main protagonists.
In August 1980, a bomb exploded at the railway station in Bologna, Italy. The Red Brigades, a left-wing urban guerrila organisation, was immediately blamed for the 86 deaths and scores of injured civilians. But the Red Brigades–which operated much like the Baader Meinhof organisation in Germany and Action Directe in France–had long been penetrated by right-wing agents working for the State. These agents had only one aim: to instigate such a series of atrocities that terrified civilians into pleading for greater state security, even if that meant a loss of personal freedom.
Gladio The Foot Soldiers – BBC (3 of 3)
1992
This third part of the trilogy reconstructs a series of unexplained and bloody killings a few years earlier in Belgium, when masked gunmen murdered people shopping in supermarkets. Some of the Gladio members responsible now talk about these seemingly pointless murders.
In 1978 in Rome, the Italian prime minister, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped and his bodyguard was killed. The bullets found at the scene were of a type issued only to Italian Special Forces and, according to one secret agent’s confession, the secret services had been warned in advance of the kidnapping.
Timewatch examines the truth behind this and the subsequent assassination of Moro – who was in favour of including the Italian Communist party in a national government.
News Articles
Bologna bombing was ‘State massacre’ says court – headline of an article in the English language edition of ANSA (Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata), literally Italy’s “National Associated Press Agency”) dated January 8th 2021 about the Bologna train station attack that killed 85 people and injured 200 on August 2nd 1980. Part of Operation Gladio.
‘The August 2 1980 bombing of Bologna train station that killed 85 people was a “State massacre,” Bologna judges said Friday in explaining their life term for a fourth member of the neofascist militant NAR group, Gilberto Cavallini.
ANSA General News article dated January 8, 2021
“It was a political massacre, or more accurately a State massacre,” said the Assize Court judges in their written explanation.’
