Description: NATO's Secret Armies Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe Author(s): Daniele Ganser Format: Paperback Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom Imprint: Routledge ISBN-13: 9780714685007, 978-0714685007 Synopsis This fascinating new study shows how the CIA and the British secret service, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services, set up a network of clandestine anti-communist armies in Western Europe after World War II. These secret soldiers were trained on remote islands in the Mediterranean and in unorthodox warfare centres 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 terrorist who in a secret war engaged in political manipulation, harrassement 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 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.
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Book Title: NATO's Secret Armies
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Nato's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD
Publication Year: 2004
Subject: Social Sciences
Item Height: 234 mm
Item Weight: 472 g
Type: Study Guide
Author: Daniele Ganser
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Paperback
