Operation Gladio

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Guerrilla

Counter-Guerrilla (Turkish: Kontrgerilla) is the Turkish branch of Operation Gladio, a clandestine stay-behind anti-communist initiative backed by the United States as an expression of the Truman Doctrine. The founding goal of the operation was to erect a guerrilla force capable of countering a possible Soviet invasion. The goal was soon expanded to subverting communism in Turkey.

In Turkey there is a popular belief that the Counter-Guerrilla are responsible for numerous unsolved acts of violence, and have exerted great influence over the country's Cold War history, most notably for engendering the military coups of 1971 and 1980.[citation needed]

The military accepts that the ÖKK is tasked with subverting a possible invasion, though it denies that the unit is Gladio's "Counter-Guerrilla", i.e., that it has engaged in "Black Operations".[2][3] After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Counter-Guerrilla were used to fight the militant PKK (cf. Susurluk scandal),[4] which has since its inception been regarded as a major threat.[5] Mehmet Ali Agca was part of the group in the ending 1970s.[6]

Counter-Guerilla's existence was revealed in 1971 by survivors of the Ziverbey incident, and officially on 26 September 1973 by prime minister Bülent Ecevit. Twenty days later he was shot at; he survived. The next prime minister who openly talked about such matters, Turgut Özal, also narrowly evaded an assassination attempt.[7] The subject has been broached by parliament at least 27 times since 1990, however no successful investigation has taken place.[8] Deputies of the incumbent party in any given administration always voted in dissent.[7]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_stay-behind_network

The Belgian stay-behind network, colloquially called "Gladio" (meaning "sword") was a secret mixed civilian and military unit, trained to form a resistance movement in the event of a Soviet invasion and part of a network of similar organizations in North Atlantic Treaty Organisation states. It functioned from at least 1951 until 1990, when the Belgian branch was promptly and officially dissolved after its existence became publicly known following revelations concerning the Italian branch of the stay-behind network.

In 1950, the assassination of Julien Lahaut, chairman of the Communist Party of Belgium (PCB) had doubtless both a national and international signification, in which Gladio's influence has been suspected.[19] Repeated requests have been made in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for an investigation into Lahaut's death. Only recently it has become known that François Goossens, a Leopoldist, was his killer.

A September 10, 1973, note from the Belgian Brigade de Surveillance et de Renseignement intelligence agency described the organization of a coup d'état by certain "financial networks and far-right organizations", naming among others Emile Lecerf, boss of the Nouvelle Europe magazine (NEM) and political godfather of Francis Dossogne (future leader of far-right Front de la Jeunesse - FJ) and Paul Latinus, founder of the Westland New Post extremist group, in which Gladio's influence has been suspected, although ultimately never proved in justice. Paul Latinus would escape to Pinochet's Chile for a few months in 1981, before "committing suicide" in 1984. On the other hand, Emile Lecerf was also a member of the Jeune Europe far-right group.[20]

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According to Amnistia.net, Luc Jouret, founder of the Order of the Solar Temple with Joseph di Mambro, had helped far-right activist Jean Thiriart organize a split in the Communist Party of Belgium (PCB) in the 1970s, creating the "Parti Communautaire Européen, a "Nazi-Maoist" party which succeeded to the Jeune Europe far-right group. According to Bruno Fouchereau, author of La mafia des sectes and collaborator of Le Monde Diplomatique, quoted by Amnistia, this Belgium "Nazi-Maoist group" was in fact controlled by the SDRA-8, Belgium's branch of Gladio. SDRA-8 other's creation was the Westland New Post group.[22]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabant_killers

The violence of the Brabant killers was linked in 1985 by the press to a conspiracy among the Belgian stay-behind SDRA8, the Belgian Gendarmerie SDRA6, the Belgian neo-Nazi group Westland New Post, and the Pentagon secret service Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). However, after a parliamentary inquiry, no hard proof sustaining these claims was found, and investigations into the Brabant killers continue to this day. However, the mystery of how those cold-blooded massacres were committed did convince the Belgian Parliament to create a Permanent Committee of Surveillance of Intelligence Agencies' activities.[21]

The Brabant killers (also the Nijvel Gang (Dutch: De Bende van Nijvel, French: Les Tueurs du Brabant) are believed responsible for a series of violent attacks that mainly occurred in the Belgian province of Brabant between 1982 and 1985. Twenty-eight people died and 40 were injured. It's considered Belgium's most notorious unsolved crime spree.

The gang's trademarks were a) disproportionate and gratuitous violence for relatively small rewards, and b) indifference to the police response.

The identities and whereabouts of the "Brabant killers" are unknown. Failure to catch the gang was a major impetus behind reform of the Belgian police.

>It was all part of the "Strategy of Tension" to control public opinion

I mean, I'm still not seeing how that translates into guns and berets and cool codenames for a hypothetical resistance movement. If the gommies invade your country and occupy it I don't think it takes a lot of psyops to make the man on the street go "hey this kind of sucks I want to shoot these people I wish I had a gun"

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here have been many theories about the case and those involved. One says the perpetrators may have been a particularly psychopathic group of criminals without any ulterior motive. A second theory asserts a politically-extreme paramilitary group conducted undercover surveillance on security at some of the targeted supermarkets.

The last gang robbery (despite patrols checking the supermarket every twenty minutes) led to rumors of them having some kind of inside knowledge and possibly complicity by individual gendarmes in the attacks. Nearby Gendarmerie vehicles (which had an Uzi in a compartment) did not engage or pursue the gang.

The Belgian "stay-behind" network SDRA8 (Gladio) — operating as a secret branch of the Belgian military service — was suggested by some to have links to the gang. Some units of the stay-behind network were made up of members of the Belgian Gendarmerie. One theory was that the communist threat in Western Europe was taken as justifying Operation Gladio being activated. However, the Belgian parliamentary inquiry into Gladio found no substantive evidence that Gladio was involved in any terrorist acts or that criminal groups had infiltrated the stay-behind network.[5][6]

Of course the "stay behind armies" were a pretty good idea, tried and tested in WW2. What I'm getting at here is how these secret organisations were used to subvert democratic countries by destabilizing them, obviously because that suited some powerful peoples agenda. Gladio, its actions, and the peole who pulled the srings were all outside any democratic oversight and quickly turned Colonel Kurtz.
Nobody seems to know much about it even though you can see a clear parallel between fear of Communism then and fear of Islamic terrorism now.

A quick round up of events elsewhere:

Speculation that the Netherlands was involved in Gladio arose from the accidental discovery of large arms caches in 1980 and 1983.[37] In the latter incident, people walking in a forest near the village of Velp, North Brabant chanced upon a large hidden cache of arms, containing dozens of hand grenades, semiautomatic rifles, automatic pistols, munitions and explosives.[38] That discovery forced the Dutch government to confirm that the arms were related to NATO planning for unorthodox warfare.[39]

In 1965, police discovered a stay-behind arms cache in an old mine close to Windisch-Bleiberg and forced the British authorities to hand over a list with the location of 33 other caches in Austria.[5]

In Switzerland, a secret force called P-26 was discovered, by coincidence, a few months before Giulio Andreotti's October 1990 revelations. After the "secret files scandal" (Fichenaffäre), Swiss members of parliament started investigating the Defense Department in the summer of 1990. According to Felix Würsten of the ETH Zurich, "P-26 was not directly involved in the network of NATO's secret armies but it had close contact to MI6."[58] Daniele Ganser (ETH Zurich) wrote in the Intelligence and National Security review that "following the discovery of the stay-behind armies across Western Europe in late 1990, Swiss and international security researchers found themselves confronted with two clear-cut questions: Did Switzerland also operate a secret stay-behind army? And if yes, was it part of NATO's stay-behind network? The answer to the first question is clearly yes... The answer to the second question remains disputed..."[59]

>these last two are not actually in NATO

The troubles in Northern Ireland is not overtly related to Gladio but was a good example of the "Strategy of Tension".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles#Collusion_between_British_forces_and_loyalists

In their efforts to defeat the IRA, there were many incidents of collusion between the British state security forces (the British Army and RUC) and loyalist paramilitaries. This included soldiers and policemen taking part in loyalist attacks while off-duty, giving weapons and intelligence to loyalists, not taking action against them, and hindering police investigations. The De Silva Report found that, during the 1980s, 85% of the intelligence loyalists used to target people came from the security forces.[144] The security forces also had double agents and informers within loyalist groups who organized attacks on the orders of, or with the knowledge of, their handlers. Of the 210 loyalists arrested by the Stevens Inquiries team, 207 were found to be state agents or informers.[145]

During the 1970s, the Glenanne gang—a secret alliance of loyalist militants, British soldiers and RUC officers—carried out a string of gun and bomb attacks against nationalists in an area of Northern Ireland known as the "murder triangle".[151][152] It also carried out some attacks in the Republic, killing about 120 people in total, mostly uninvolved civilians.[153] The Cassel Report investigated 76 murders attributed to the group and found evidence that soldiers and policemen were involved in 74 of those.[154] One member, RUC officer John Weir, claimed his superiors knew of the collusion but allowed it to continue.[155] The Cassel Report also said some senior officers knew of the crimes but did nothing to prevent, investigate or punish.[154] Attacks attributed to the group include the Dublin and Monaghan bombings (1974), the Miami Showband killings (1975) and the Reavey and O'Dowd killings (1976).[156]

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The Stevens Inquiries found that elements of the security forces had used loyalists as "proxies",[157] who, via, double-agents and informers, had helped loyalist groups to kill targeted individuals, usually suspected republicans but civilians were also killed, intentionally and otherwise. The inquiries concluded this had intensified and prolonged the conflict.[158][159] The British Army's Force Research Unit (FRU) was the main agency involved.[157] Brian Nelson, the UDA's chief 'intelligence officer', was a FRU agent.[160] Through Nelson, FRU helped loyalists target people for assassination. FRU commanders say they helped loyalists target only republican activists and prevented the killing of civilians.[157]

The Inquiries found evidence only two lives were saved and that Nelson/FRU was responsible for at least 30 murders and many other attacks – many on civilians.[158] One victim was solicitor Pat Finucane. Nelson also supervised the shipping of weapons to loyalists in 1988.[160] From 1992–1994, loyalists were responsible for more deaths than republicans,[161] partly due to FRU.[162][163] Members of the security forces tried to obstruct the Stevens investigation.[159][164]

A 2007 Police Ombudsman report revealed that UVF members had been allowed to commit a string of terrorist offences, including murder, while working as informers for RUC Special Branch. It found that Special Branch had given informers immunity by ensuring they weren't caught or convicted, and blocking weapons searches.

>tl;dr they used right wing extremists as deniable deathsquads to prolong the conflict and provide a live fire training ground for their army

So, basically we can see that a huge amount of terrorism in Europe from the 1960's to the 1990's was either state sanctioned or allowed to happen to achieve political goals and control public opinion, and is very much unknown despite being out in the open for all to see.

Of course it is unknown, since people don't even know this project exists. They are not gooing to search for something they are ignorant about.

why worry about Gladio when Propaganda Due is the real threat?

Does that even exist anymore? They must be 200 years old by now.

I know that they got smacked bad in the 70's by the Italian gov't and by other Mason lodges, but I don't think they were ever decisively broken up.

Probably complicated a deal more by how deepcover they were in the first place.

One look at this assclowns resumé tends to agree with you.
As a sidenote, it appears that all but two British Prime Ministers since the 1970's attended Bilderburg Group meetings before being elected.