Reply #3: Thanks for the link, here are a few more.

[JohnyCanuck]

Another documentary now available on Google Video is the 3 part BBC documentary on Operation Gladio. Gladio was The NATO/CIA led operation in Italy and other West European countries which organized secret armies to stay behind enemy lines in the event of a Soviet invasion of Europe to engage the enemy in guerrilla warfare. However, in some European countries (e.g. Italy) these secret armies worked in close cooperation with fascist and underground far right forces under the protection of the local security services to stage murderous terror attacks on civilians. These terror attacks were then blamed by governments and media on left wing radical and communist subversives. The idea was to discredit the left and left leaning politicians, and in the words of one of the Operation Gladio participants Vincenzo Vincinguerra, "to force the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security." ( http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8110.htm )


Operation Gladio Documentary Part 1: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=264709845600167246
Operation Gladio Documentary Part 2: http://www.blinkx.com/burl?v=9zGsW8dYysSnK13DpCefyOt2zkZFbyQRkcBzxg
Operation Gladio Documentary Part 3: http://www.blinkx.com/burl?v=7CmNgyOnpYyzVWONcCHHY_-NDqxXPCyWFwwFyA

NATO's Secret Army: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe by Danile Ganser

Book Description
The CIA and the British secret service MI6, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services set up a network of clandestine anticommunist armies in Western Europe after World War II. The secret soldiers were trained on remote islands in the Mediterranean and in unorthodox warfare centers in England and in the United States by the Green Berets and SAS Special Forces. The network was armed with explosives, machine guns and high-tech communication equipment hidden in underground bunkers and secret arms caches in forests and mountain meadows. In some countries, the secret army linked up with right-wing terrorists who in a secret war engaged in political manipulation, harassment of left wing parties, massacres, coup d'etats and torture.

Codenamed "Gladio" ('the sword'), the Italian secret army was exposed in 1990 by Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti to the Italian Senate, whereupon the press spoke of the "the best kept, and most damaging, political-military secret since World War II" (Observer, 18. November 1990) and observed that "The story seems straight from the pages of a political thriller." (The Times, November 19, 1990). Ever since, so-called 'stay-behind' armies of NATO have also been discovered in France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Greece and Turkey. They were internationally coordinated by the Pentagon and NATO and had their last known meeting in the NATO-linked Allied Clandestine Committee (ACC) in Brussels in October 1990.

http://www.amazon.com/NATOs-Secret-Army-Operation-Contemporary/dp/0714685003