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hyperbola1 year, 7 months ago
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Well that "pax americana" did involve us committing numerous acts of terrorism in Europe as well as supporting military dictatorships, so europeans have a rather different picture of that period. but you wouldn't be expected to have ever heard of that.
Secret Warfare : Operation Gladio and NATO's Stay-Behind Armies
After the Cold War had ended, Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti confirmed to the Italian Senate in August 1990 that Italy had had a secret stay-behind army, codenamed Gladio â;; the sword. A document from the Italian military secret service, SIFAR, revealed that SIFAR had been running the secret army ... in close collaboration with the CIA. Suggesting the secret army might have linked up with right-wing organizations such as Ordine Nuovo and Avanguardia Nazionale to engage in domestic terror, the Italian Senate decided in 1990 that Gladio was beyond democratic control and therefore had to be closed down....
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...The evidence now available suggests that in other countries the secret stay-behind armies linked up with right-wing terrorists and carried out terror attacks that were wrongly blamed on the political left...
http://www.php.isn.ethz.ch/collections/coll_gla...
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