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Gladio

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Gladio

Code name for the Italian branch of a secret paramilitary network backed by the Central Intelligence Agency and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Allied Coordination Committee, made public and disbanded in 1990. The name Gladio has also been used for the entire network.

Gladio was established in Italy 1958 or earlier, and came under NATO supervision in 1959. It had secret caches of arms and explosives, and is alleged to have engaged in covert action against left-wing groups.



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Ocalan himself guessed as much, in his first interrogation: NATO had an undercover organization, Gladio, that accounted not just for his betray al by the Greeks, but also for his letdown by the Italians earlier.
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Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti acknowledged the existence of the Gladio in testimony before an Italian parliamentary commission on August 2, 1990.
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