Operation Gladio: How the West Wanted to Defend against the USSR

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video the operation Gladio - US sanctioned plan to create local defense in Europe forces against the possible Soviet incursion.
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[@grdja83]

You barely scratched the surface, but also you opened a huge can of worms. We now need episodes about Red Brigades, and Propaganda Due and all other "fun" stuff taking place across Italy and all of West Europe in ''60es and '70es.

[@TheColdWarTV]

and they will be coming...make sure you are subscribed!

[@neues3691]

Will the "years of lead" get an episode?

[@mynameismynameis666]

and their financial connections to people like Klaus Barbie and their cocaine cartel. boy oh boy, the inception of the panama papers...

[@mynameismynameis666]

@@adamradziwill said every cartel deathsquad financed by the CIA ever

[@markshepherd3632]

The bolongna train station was supposed to be done by the a gladio operative

[@caad5258]

One has to question how effective 700 guerrillas would be against a Soviet occupation...

[@historyisawesome6399]

All us cold war military plans read like a fantasy novel were the soviets are commanded by a 5 year old autistic kid nato

[@historyisawesome6399]

Nato military plans read like a fantasy novel and really werent realistic beacuse nato was going to nuke a soviet coventinal force to beat the ussr the us need all 5 of these things Front wide airsuperiority A singnificant tech edge A 5 to 1 kill rate on armoured vehicles A way the neutrlaize soviet ew assets And a way to destroy scud sites All of these thing either nato didnt have or were unrealistic

[@mark12strang58]

If a war had broken out, the life expectancy of a Gladio fighter would be that of 3 weeks. This is how long the British assumed their stand behind units would survive in case of a German invasion. This entire operation was badly planned and the government supported hostile groups.

[@sharp340]

Were did you here this from ? I would like to learn more about these clandestine activies during the cold war

[@mark12strang58]

In Germany a spy reveled all important information on the German Stay Behind ground to the KGB. They knew everything about this group. In case of an invasion, they would have been crushed and would have had little opportunity to conduct any major operations.

[@mjwatts1983]

Show of hands: how many learned about this from watching Archer? In the episode Lo Scandalo, Malory Archer admits to participating in Gladio and how she started a physical relationship with the future Italian Prime Minister who is now dead in a… very compromising position in her apartment Lana Kane: “Then it turned into a weird crypto-fascist CIA shitshow, starring Allen Dulles and a bunch of former Nazis.”

[@carlousmagus5387]

He shouldn't have exposed that information; some secrets should remain secret.

[@yaldabaoth2]

I will stay behind in these comments and lead the like campaign.

[@danilshcherbakov2126]

thanks demiurge

[@garyfrombrooklyn]

I’m impressed! I didn’t expect to hear about Gladio. I remember a documentary that mentioned this program. Very well done!

[@philip8551]

Archer mentions it in the episode where Mallory kills the Italian Prime Minister

[@AgenteET786]

When I debate with ameriKKKan about Gladio they accuse me to be conspiracy’s theorist.

[@mynameismynameis666]

guess why the season ended so apruptly, because NATO who obviously tapped onto their funders fingers SEEING HOW THEY WANT TO START A WAR WITH RUSSIA AND CREATE GLADIO/STAYBEHIND in UKRAINE today

[@maxheadrom3088]

@@philip8551 Is it about the murder of Aldo Moro? The documentary is called "Operation Gladio" and it was broadcast by the BBC. The author is documentarist Allan Framcovich who also did "In Company Business" and another one on the TWA terrorist attack over Lovkerby. On one attack in Turim, if I'm not mistaken, over 80 people died in the bombing on a train station.

[@pjhoover1]

Watch GoodDog_555 with me on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/gooddog_555?sr=a

[@Thaumazo83]

Topic suggestion: Franco's Spain and Salazar's Portugal.

[@CivilWarWeekByWeek]

I just assumed our defense plan was to use McDonalds

[@Huhi4et]

Anastas Mikoian bring technology of fast food humburgers to USSR from USA in 1936 it's called «Горячая Московская котлета»

[@RocheSimon]

It was and it still is.

[@mathewkelly9968]

No the secret plan was Pepsi and PizzaHut

[@Davey-Boyd]

Surely that would be against the Geneva Convention or come under biological warfare rules. I'd rather be nuked than eat a Big Mac.

[@Davey-Boyd]

@A Velsen McDonalds cannot be called food. Even giving it to POW should be a war crime.

[@marcobonesi6794]

In italy gladio was a big thing. They even carried several terrorists attacks during the years of lead and blamed the commies.

[@luisfernandosantosn]

Didnt know you guys also used the term "years of lead" to define times of political repression and violence (by both sides) in italian. I thought It was a portuguese thing.

[@marcobonesi6794]

@@luisfernandosantosn no. "Anni di piombo" years of lead is also used in italy.

[@8bitorgy]

Fake news

[@Miami1991]

I think we will have the years of lead here in the US soon

[@marcobonesi6794]

@ no. Several terrorist attacks like the one at the Bologna 's railway station were carried by gladio. Even the president Mattarella has admitted it last year. During the first hours after the attack The Police even beated to death one of the memebers of the local trade union since he was one of the "suspects".

[@climberly]

Jesus, if that's what the cia was doing then imagine what it's doing now. We need a president and congress with balls to investigate and shut them down, if they can manage it without getting their head blown off.

[@nikoagnes6675]

Damn right, dude

[@IndieGinge]

Anyone who is allowed close enough to power who actually would will be murdered or blackmailed or bought. Most likely bought. Inshallah that America falls or it's people develop the kind of balls the revolutionary forefathers they claim to love so much have. Current power structures will not allow a revolutionary agenda regarding the crime syndicates they call 'intelligence services"

[@climberly]

@@IndieGinge I'm not gonna disagree with ya on that.

[@balladofthebroken7569]

@@IndieGinge Absolutely concur. One question: what is the most damning piece of info from Gladio in regards to the CIA’s actions?

[@spiderqueen4663]

*whispers* this is only what they permitted us to find out.

[@chevaliergryphon1308]

It's fascinating to learn about some of these kind of official unofficial programs that went on during the Cold War. Thank you for your hard work and good deep research

[@bhutochakrabarti4173]

Wow, never knew that so many groups were organized and supported by both sides. Looks like the cold war never really cold . Another great video.

[@shelaco1321]

A more comprehensive documentary with testimony from former Gladio operatives and others involved with events during the 1970s is from 1992 - the link is here kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4rLg3Wurd6Fp9U

[@toprope_]

One of Putin’s assignments at the KGB was supplying groups like these in Western Europe out of Germany. It seems brutal, but America did a lot of the same with stuff like Iran/Contra and who knows what else. Cold War is insane.

[@amedeolivio534]

wow that’s an incredibly important piece of my country history (Italy) thanks for covering that :)

[@jorawarsingh2595]

Do italians eat pasta daily?

[@marcomolinari8354]

@@jorawarsingh2595 yes

[@TheLolol94]

@@jorawarsingh2595 yes we do

[@Thaumazo83]

@@jorawarsingh2595 Many Italians do, yes. In the North of Italy we also eat a lot of rice (riso) and bread (pane).

[@jorawarsingh2595]

@@Thaumazo83 wow, the travel industry never tell anyone that italians also eat rice. The only europeans ever shows eating rice are the spainards with their recato.

[@christopherconard2831]

In the late 40's this probably made sense on paper. But no one thought about what to do with all these weapon stashes if they needed to be removed. Most of the counties where they were placed weren't informed ahead of time, so there would be a bit of a diplomatic issue if the US suddenly asked permission to dig up the stockpiles. I remember reading about a few, presumably from the same program, that were accidentally found during demolition and construction projects in France.

[@theheatinferno8420]

Enter UKRAINE🤪🤪🤪

[@magnusgustavsson7684]

So a youtuber gonna prove the PhD theory of Ganser wrong. This is going to be interesting! Especially since the first thing Glaser writes is that he wasnt allowed all documents about Gladio. And that he wishes that one of the main credits of his work will be the liberation of all this hidden information. So he doesnt know. And you dont know. But somehow you will be able to prove his theory wrong?

[@MephLeo]

CIA: We want to build a network of operatives to counter the threat of a Communist takeover... - Well, that sounds OK, I guess. CIA: making use of Neofascist elements... - Wait, no, that's not... CIA: AND FORMER NAZI ELEMENTS! - OH. MY. GOD.

[@useodyseeorbitchute9450]

Almost as shocking as financing communist Soviet Union to bleed dry Nazi German army a few years earlier...

[@MephLeo]

@@useodyseeorbitchute9450 Not nearly, really. By that time Communism was a sufficiently far away of a threat compared to Fascism. Now, propping up ideologues that propose a regime similar to the ones that just caused the biggest armed conflict in the history of humanity is... plain dumb.

[@useodyseeorbitchute9450]

​@@MephLeo "By that time" Correct me if you deal with a different timeline, but for practical purposes, as geopolitical threat, Nazism was eliminated circa 1945, while Soviet communism around 1991. So there same cynical logic applied in boosting communists until 1945 and Nazism (or fascism) until 1991, right?

[@mikeyorkav4039]

@@useodyseeorbitchute9450 umm, sunshine, the usa fully funded the nazis from start to finish. They gave ths soviets practially nothing. 4% of the wae effort

[@useodyseeorbitchute9450]

@@mikeyorkav4039 I don't see how you can compare a few opportunistic deals with mass scale Lend Lease. If anything one should rather mention how Axis were able to avoid British naval blockade only thanks to Soviet help in providing them with raw materials until summer 1941.

[@germanogirardelli]

Hey guys! I had a distant relative who was part operation gladio, or at least he had a "gladio scroll". Gladio members were given these scrolls as a sort of "proof of membership". He was very enigmatic and died along with his secrets, which is a pity

[@mikeyorkav4039]

Rest in piss

[@gnot_paul]

Gladio operators were terrorists, he should have died in prison.

[@Wynesons]

Wow finally another underrated topic getting covered by an underrated channel

[@Thaumazo83]

Wonderful comment, kudos

[@kyrgyzsanjar]

I would have never researched and learned about this stuff on my own. It's an incredible job you guys are doing on this channel.

[@shelaco1321]

Better analysis with testimony from those directly involved in 1970s and former Gladio operatives is here - a documentary from 1992 made by BBC before BBC became a mouthpiece for all US foreign policy! This is real, first hand, indepth investigation. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4rLg3Wurd6Fp9U

[@grimreaper6557]

a very interesting video on a very Dark subject that goes very deep in to the intellegance community the name changes but the goal stays the same thank you for showing this i can't wait to see what you dig up in your next installment

[@Dk-tt4yc]

God bless you for showing this to the world! Greetings, you are my favorite channel.

[@theblue5224]

Usa: ok let's cup them like a central American nation Andreotti: are you sure about that?

[@AgenteET786]

Another tip: Operation Bluemoon (Gladio involved with the heroin trafficking in Europe and USA between Sicily and Marseille)

[@messianic_scam]

what is this cold war or heroin war

[@AgenteET786]

@@messianic_scam '65/'78

[@AgenteET786]

@A Fels What lies?

[@AgenteET786]

@A Fels Man, there are TRIALS in Italy about it 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@OdintheGermanShepherd]

Excellent presentation, interesting subject, very well edited and entertaining video. Brand New Subscriber!!

[@seventhk5845]

please expand on Gladio and cover how they led Greece to a military dictatorship in 1967, thank you for your good work

[@josuefHuerta]

Just in time for my morning coffee

[@TheAnthraxBiology]

You should avoid creating such charged titles. This makes it sound like 1. The USSR was always the aggressor by using the word "defend". This isn't the case, both sides played their role in the cold war. For instance the allies militarised germany even though USSR wanted to pull out and make a neutral demilitarised germany. They all said that Stalin was lying because...he was just lying. They created networks like these which effectively amounted to apparatuses to occupy countries. On the other hand the USSR created satellite states of their own to directly extract resources. 2. The use of the "West" and not NATO or something analogous is very historically/politically charged and also inaccurate and I don't think that warrants much explanation. 3. "Wanted" makes it seem like they didn't do it. They did. In Italy they killed people, conspired with the mafia, used WW2 era fascists for their personal gain, and joined all these forces together in a masonic lodge so that they could confer and then go to parliament afterwards and make decisions. It is no longer a secret. They also poured millions into the 1948 elections because they thought the communists would win and George F Kennan said they were ready to start a civil war if they did win because of "the similar success they were having in Greece."

[@ffffuchs]

Unrelated question: Will you plan on covering the space race in more detail? I know you made several references and touched on the subjects, but I think the topic definately deserves its own video if not mini series.

[@kystartilleriet0270]

In norway operation gladio is known as Stay Behind or Norsk okkupasjonsberedskap and the norwegian branch of gladio was code named ROC. The norwegian networks you had was Rocambole which consisted of small groups with secret stockpiles of weapons and other equipment. These groups were to sabotage targets in occupied territory and secure facilities that were still under Norwegian control. Next you had Lindus, which was a network of intelligence agents, including a group that would take care of the evacuation of certain types of Norwegian and allied personnel if the country was attacked. The last network was Blue Mix was a network that was to rescue allied soldiers who ended up behind enemy lines, e.g. pilots who had to make an emergency landing or parachute jump.

[@n00rth]

And the whole network was exposed when one of the members was caught producing moonshine in his home and didn’t have a good explanation for the secret bunker containing arms and ammunition for more than 100 men.

[@kystartilleriet0270]

@@n00rth yupp😄 and stay behind may actually been decommissioned in 1990 but the ROC the sabotage network was disbanded in 1983🙂

[@rrobb9853]

The British also had a UK-based 'stay behind' organisation in 1940. They were known as the Auxiliaries and were teams of a few men, trained in reconnaissance and sabotage. Each team had a hidden underground shelter from which they could operate, in the event of an invasion.

[@Ukraineaissance2014]

I have a book of maps of the hides a group of these had in east yorkshire

[@alanlawson4180]

There was one near me, and I talked to one of the members a few years ago. They knew that their life expectency was short, and as they had no Comms at all, their value as Recce was slim; still, they would have but the fear of God into the Germans while active. They had better equipment than the regular forces at the time. The reason their existence was kept secret for a long time (decades) after th war ended was just because of this - they were a blueprint for future such Ops.

[@ciaranleonard3744]

The Russians would have wiped you limeys out in a matter of days!🤧🤧🤧

[@semkoops]

I never knew about this 'Gladio' stuff. I looked up more about it and apparently in the Netherlands several weapons and explosive depots/bunkers belonging to our version of Gladio have been uncovered and plundered by organised crime members during the end of the last century. It's mind-boggling to me to only hear about this now.

[@annoyed707]

This happens when the watchers are not watch. Someone gets a habit and into debt, decides that it won't do any harm to sell off a few weapons...

[@charlielynes]

Some serious actions were taken during Galdio, devices planted, assassinations etc. Looking at the European modern Terror Activity, it compare to the Gladio model... 🤔🧐

[@davestevens6283]

The X-com 2: Long war Narrative.

[@rudranshu65sengupta14]

A very interesting video as usual. A request on my end, I would love to see a comprehensive video on the history of the British Intelligence Services.

[@profharveyherrera]

This sounds like something from a Ton Clancy's novel. I wasn't aware of those facts, but thinking about it makes the most sense, to stablish a resistance network before an invasion. On the other hand, with the policy of Mutual Assured Destruction any resistance would be unnecessary. Great content, as always

[@whatabouttheearth]

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[@xaptor8685]

A game that has the Tom Clancy name on it called The Division is probably the closest thing to it.

[@mathewguglielmi8451]

BBC Timeline program had an excellent 3 part documentary on Operation Gladio which aired in 1992. It's a chilling watch and makes you reconsider historical events of the 20th century.

[@DavidLessem]

And it really gives the lie to the official propaganda line that Gladio existed to defend against Soviet invasion.

[@marcellomastroianni2530]

Hi Today I'll tell you about my country Turkey. My country was one of Turkey's most important countries in the Cold War. Turkey, Second World War allies of the US and Western Bloc oldu.1947 after Truman took American aid to Greece along with the Doctrine. 1950 Turkey sent troops to the Korean War (1000 near the Turkish military were killed, was captured and disappeared for American interests!) 'Prize' was as a member of NATO in 1952 together with Greece NATO's mission in Turkey 'was to protect Southeast Europe and the Mediterranean from the Soviet Union.' Therefore, American and NATO bases and soldiers has increased in Turkey! in Turkey, in order to prevent the Communists and leftists' in 1952, 'the Turkish Gladio' was established Turkish Gladio 1960 and rising working class in Turkey in the 1970s, the student movement (68 generations all over the world), killing many to destroy the socialist party, made massacre. The Far Right 'Gray Wolves' committed these massacres with the support of the Turkish Gladio. Turkish Gladio NATO, Turkish Army supported by Pentagon (US Alliance) When he could not stop the 'Communists', he made a 'Military Coup' on 12 March 1971 Coup d'etat and 12 September 1980. Coup d'etat Thousands of people were killed, tortured and exiled in these two military coups (just like the Chilean Pinochet Coup in 1973). Turkish Social Democrat Politician Bülent Ecevit discovered and exposed the 'Turkish Gladio' in the 70s, but the Turkish Gladio tried to kill him, and he withdrew. Turkey Cold War, NATO was important for neighboring countries, the US was to mend the Soviet !. Turkey paid a heavy price in the Cold War !!!

[@MoonChildMedia]

Not Turkey, people paid a heavy price. I wish the people of the world would stop nation building and start understanding that governments are pure evil and produce only one thing: WAR.

[@edalder2000]

There is a book called "Special Forces Berlin" that listed a US Army unit for stay behind forces among The Berlin Brigade in West Berlin. That Special Forces force actually became proficient in anti-terrorist warfare. That force became the backbone of Eagle Claw, the failed attempt to rescue American hostages in 1980.

[@TheColdWarTV]

Detachment A was the name of the unit.

[@edalder2000]

@@TheColdWarTV Thank you. The name escaped me.

[@ArmyOfRome]

oh no gladio , the Pandora's box of the Italian lead years has been opened😱

[@_spahgettifactoria8323]

I used to dislike the united states, after i learned about operation gladio and its consuquences in my country i m just disgusted by them

[@deprogramm]

Literally most Western European countries supported and participated in this

[@_spahgettifactoria8323]

@@deprogramm İ dont care if the government supports it or not. innocent civillians were killed by this and that is unacceptable

[@conzmoleman]

sadly and shamefully i live in the usa and you are 100% correct. we are a force for pure evil and nothing good. hopefully our empire crumbles and dies forever, the sooner the better.

[@BrockLeyland]

Corbett report has a series on this.

[@OdintheGermanShepherd]

I was just listening to a podcast about operation Gladio.

[@jacobtaylor4348]

What podcast? I'd love to give it a listen

[@OdintheGermanShepherd]

@@jacobtaylor4348 the podcast is called “Conspiracy Theories” and the episodes are Operation Gladio pt. 1 and pt. 2 ...it is super interesting

[@rageblanket2139]

In turkey it was called "counter guerilla"

[@rageblanket2139]

@Samuel Brown and that is based on......?

[@Daniel-xb9il]

@Samuel Brown Both are NATO creations

[@wihanmeintjes3037]

Please help shed light on the problem in South Africa called farm murders it is a serious problem and my afrikaner volk need you help thank you for reading

[@123Dunebuggy]

There was a british stay behind group setup in 1940 in case of sealion succes.

[@Garron88]

The auxiliary units, surprised it didn't get a mention tbh

[@TheColdWarTV]

If you are talking about the Home Defence Scheme, it wasn't really a stay-behind operation. It was designed with a life-span of about two weeks and was strictly developed and intended as a disruption force to help slow down the invasion. Some parallels for sure, but the intent was different, as I have understood it.

[@matteotodeschini5232]

Excellent video!! If only Andreotti could come back and tell us some of these stories first hand...

[@Awlo81]

Kudos for your Italian pronounciation. Spotless! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@Redmailnet]

In Portugal we celebrate the 25th of April as if we had something to do with it. People are sheeple.

[@jamesbeaumont1212]

Would be great to see something on the proxy war in Southern Africa in the 70s and 80s between the 'West' (secretly in the form of South Africa and Unita, and Rhodesia), Cuba, East Germany and the Soviets. I believe it was the last actual fighting before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, and limited Communist expansion in Africa? xxx

[@TheColdWarTV]

We will cover the proxy wars in Southern Africa, including Angola and Mozambique, but they are still a while off in our timeline. As for them being the last of the proxy wars, don't forget the fighting in Central America (Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador) as that carried through into the 90's.

[@jamesbeaumont1212]

@@TheColdWarTV Yes, thank you - I tend to overlook South America too often :-( xxx

[@ggtt2547]

Thank you very much. Amazing episode and an extremely interesting subject. Hope more episodes are on the way soon. Ganser's book was my first time even hearing about operation Gladio all over Europe. Although it draws much criticism and i would like to hear also your opinion on it's credibility. Can't wait to watch the your videos about operation Gladio in Italy, Greece and Turkey!

[@CO84trucker]

In Austria, one of the remnants of World War II & the Cold War are the blue shield placards on historical properties deeming such cultural property to be protected in the event of armed conflict. This is eerily similar to the old "fallout shelter" placards dotting many old buildings in the states.

[@cwilh6044]

I like that better, conceptually: markers indicating what is deemed culturally important enough to be protected from wanton destruction in the event of war.

[@p1s2i3nt2]

The apparent loss of an intire class of surnames. In Norway before 1980. Excsample. Bolsen. Maltz. Malsen Baltz. Balsen. Bals. Was not addressed fore hundred of thousends. Dissapaird in history. By any other than no response. Other to respect Norwegian leaders and heads. No cooperation with Norwegians is accepted on my technology. Np support. No interest. No more interest from so called Ufert.

[@AxelPoliti]

You did a great job of explanation and synthesis. You need to read Italian books from Mr. Cereghino, showing you a more intricate web of precedents and complicities.

[@henrimourant9855]

Wow, very interesting. Thank you guys.

[@jacobavners2394]

I'd heard that the Brabant Killers might be connected to this operation. How exactly?

[@muhammadsulaiman1361]

Just like the Jestapo

[@chongli8409]

Your narrative is sketchy

[@tonycavanagh1929]

There were plenty of stay behinds. During the cold war, there some Royal Artillery Regiments the heavs who had stay behind OPs. Such a different time.

[@azeddin_nb]

the same in islam

[@maxheadrom3088]

Looking forward to episodes about Aldo Moro's murder and also about his point of view about international relations. BTW, I hope it will be two episodes. As the person who opened a symposium on Aldo Moro held in NYC said (paraphrasing from memory) "Aldo Moro was set in a prison after his murder - a prison made of the event that holds Moro''s ideas in it".

[@grupinfractionalorganizatp5003]

in case of "invaders " in case of nothing to catch their interest for all produce money -resources

[@apmoy70]

The Greek organization had the codename of "Red Sheepskin"

[@oldesertguy9616]

Who comes up with these names? That would be an awesome job! "I think this operation will be known as Porpoise Penis." I mean, some of them make sense, but some are kind of weird.

[@apmoy70]

@@oldesertguy9616 It alludes to the mythical Golden Fleece, in Greek fleece = sheepskin

[@oldesertguy9616]

@@apmoy70 Okay, now I get it. The Red part being the Soviets, I guess. Thank you.

[@apmoy70]

@@oldesertguy9616 Exactly, my pleasure

[@AA-mf3om]

I believe the right word instead of sheepskin is hide

[@prajnaseek]

See Noam Chomsky and William Blum for critical perspective and more details on Operation Gladio, which was only in part designed to defend against Soviet invasion of Western Europe, which the US intelligence knew to be extremely unlikely, Russia having being crushed by WWII, and which was primarily motivated by simple imperialism, in the US-led war on democracy which ran from before 1945, through to the present.

[@MoonChildMedia]

war on democracy? do you view democracy as a good thing? Ironically, I believe it is this idea of "democracy" held by most people in the west these days has led to the loss of more freedom than I have seen during my lifetime. (P.S. I like some of Chomsky's work and let's remember ....he's an anarchist, as am I).

[@jeffb.140]

chomsky is a communist shill

[@lordinvictus793]

Can you do a video on Operation Dropshot? The US plan to beat the soviets before rockets and missiles were implemented to carry nukes?

[@stiggsmasta]

When I heard goebbels , made me remember the funny reference Jen psaki ,ginger goebbels.

[@viktoralferov2874]

USSR - United State Soviet Republics or United Soviet Social Republics

[@neues3691]

Interesting topic that I haven't heard much about if anything.

[@Thaumazo83]

Almost no one knows about Gladio outside of Italy, in my experience

[@mojewjewjew4420]

To me it looks like the western countires were more like satellite states than independent allies.

[@aranos6269]

Polish resistance was organised before German invasion.

[@xr.spedtech]

How funny... Seeing what's happening to Ukraine rn ...

[@lw1zfog]

revisionist ‘historian’ runs cover for democide 😂

[@MrSam1er]

There was a similar institution in Switzerland, but I can't remember the name. I don't know who founded it, but I don't think it was the CIA directly at least

[@arnaldoteodorani277]

It was called P26

[@kuroazrem5376]

The question is do they still exist?

[@lonelychameleon3595]

Oh wow the US supported fascists (shocked Pikachu face)

[@cjthegood]

How about SMERSH? Are you going to make an episode about it?

[@TheColdWarTV]

SMERSH was disbanded and absorbed into the MGB (eventually the KGB) in 1946. While we will look at KGB espionage and counterespionage, we will not be looking at SMERSH specifically

[@cjthegood]

@@TheColdWarTV Ok

[@Marinealver]

aka the true story of The Division

[@cristianesquivel5147]

I was watching Archer on Hulu and they mentioned this in one of there episode and so I decided to look it up and I didn’t know this operation existed

[@whatabouttheearth]

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[@eurocrime8992]

I recommend book by Daniele Ganser. When it comes to murder of carabinieri, he wrote that the evidence about C4 was hidden by a forensic expert who was a Gladio member.

[@MontytheHorse]

Ganser’s book is awful. He accepts Soviet disinformation documents as being real. A good book about Gladio has not been written.

[@spiderqueen4663]

​@@MontytheHorse This is literally the CIA's criticism of this book. If we accept that the Soviets can disseminate disinformation, then why not the CIA? They seem a little testy about it, frankly lol

[@remybien3277]

Like for the N64 reference

[@mladen83]

Gladio was used to destroy Yugoslavia

[@Judah119]

The more you look into America post-ww2 the harder it is to not be a harbinger of anti-americanism. Like, talk about “soviet totalitarianism” all you want but the the actions that Operation Gladio, Operation Condor, and the participation of the Nazi high command in NATO is literally evil. Indefensibly evil.

Interesting. This is the stuff of spy novels :)

[@JonasHyltén-s4i]

5000 17 year olds killed 😭😢

[@JoeSkylynx]

The United States had stay-behind networks also... The predecessor of the United States Militia Movement, the Patriot Fronts. Lot of these groups had political and financial support before the Sagebrush Revolt in the 70's.

[@gerberjoanne266]

Actually, Britain had a resistance force in place in World War 2, in case the Germans occupied Britain. Learn more here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqvMnX6ke9-dfaM kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKialpSKjaeIb8U

[@andreynazarov8113]

Hi, could you please link the sources? It would be interesting to take a deeper dive into this. Thanks for your work!

[@bateli9733]

Take a look at this BBC documentary: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXiriZ2Fbdx7qaM They have interviews with members of the italian inteligence, far right and far left terrorists, and the leader of the Gladio division.

[@andreynazarov8113]

@@bateli9733 Many thanks!

[@shadrackchabedi3447]

See book: NATO’s Secret Armies by Daniele Ganser. It’s a good book on the subject. I’m 50% into the video and the presentation sanitises Gladio networks, especially in the context of Italy. These were Far-Right terrorist groups, populated with facists and Neo-Naz!s, like Fredo Franco, who was eventually arrested for the bombing of Piazza Fontana in Italy that claimed 12 civilians. They were all illegal. Though they were purportedly “stay-behind-forces”, they engaged in a pre-emotive war using state organs and mass-scale killing of innocent civilians which state officials used to frame Communist Party members as a means to discredit the Communist Party and increase state security forces in the country. State officials belonging to these networks were also known to take evidence from the attacks and plant it on popular Left Wing figures in order to silence them, like the Left Wing editor, Giangiacomo Fletrineli. The CIA, as usual, was the head of the snake. In his book, Ganser claims that there’s no direct way of knowing if the CIA authorised the bombing of innocent civilians and if these networks simply went rogue, but testimony given by Giandelio Martello, who served Gladio and eventually fled Italy, suggests they did know and also procured the same bombs for these cells to use on Civilians. He testified that a week before the Piazza Fontana bombing, he had reported to his seniors at the military of an illegal shipment of explosives that came in from Germany and he was told to ignore it and later, investigations revealed that those same explosives were used in the Fontana bombing. Contrary to what the presenter says, the idea of a pre-emotive attack against a potential Communist uprising was not novel to Europe. It was a classic CIA strategy to propel fascists to commit acts of violence against Communists. This was the CIA’s strategy in Brazil and it was later employed in Indonesia, were the military killed over 3 million innocent civilians because they were convinced that the Communists, who interestingly had followed electoral processes and were peaceful, were about to enact armed revolution. There’s a quote by Richard M Bissel, former director of CIA, where he explains that “the idea is to create the threat of an external menace”. That single quote pretty much sums up the entire CIA strategy of these Gladio networks.

[@notsorrystory]

​@@shadrackchabedi3447 thank you for this. I knew this video wasn't the whole story, but wow.

[@petrsovicka]

Soviet Russia/The Soviet Union actually also created stay-behind partisan forces in its Western areas in accordance with its grand strategy in the 1920s and early 30s until offensive plans were adopted instead.

[@johnragland8968]

This may have already been said somewhere but wouldn’t the British auxiliary units be consider more likely father of this plan?

[@markstephenson9641]

Thanks to much!!!

[@anestistziamtzis9628]

Try to make a video for ordine nuovo and Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari. Were they part or connected with gladio?

[@SewerRatsarepeopletoo]

Home Guard Auxiliary???! The OG stay behind network!

[@ColdHighway7]

Since Italy was apart of this video, will you guys be doing a video on Italy's Years of Lead?

[@EnzoFerrari63193]

Very nice and interesting video. And your pronunciation of Italian names is good, and made nice by the Yankee accent.

[@jamesfletcher4382]

I think you have missed out the British stay behind saboteurs who had been trained and eqipped in the event of a German invasion? Not the home guard!

[@tictac2therevenge291]

CIA making secret armies in neutral countries: Hey kids, want to plan an insurgency?

[@sjr7822]

I'm trying to find out the name of the person that was involved in operation Gladio and Trump's 'stop the steal' operation

[@sercancelenk7131]

I have been going deeper and deeper into this rabbit hole for the last week and I don't see a way up back to surface.

[@simontemplar.8668]

Wow! From Wilhelm Canaris to the N64 in a flash. Now that's entertainment of today.

[@anonymous_a]

Pierce Brosman was the James Bond in Golden Eye, not Sean Connery.

[@20thcentury94]

Anyone know what the outro music is? Seems so familiar...