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NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe
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The definitive academic treatment of the stay-behind networks across Western Europe. Ganser spent years in NATO and national archives before the book's publication, and it remains the most comprehensive single-volume account available in English. Essential reading for anyone working in this strand — it provides the comparative framework (Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, Portugal) that contextualises what was happening specifically in Italy, and the bibliographic apparatus alone is a research tool.
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NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe
Frank Cass Publishers / Routledge · Contemporary Security Studies · 2005 · 336 pp.
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After the end of World War II, the United States and Great Britain set up a network of stay-behind armies across Western Europe to operate in the event of a Soviet invasion. These clandestine networks were found to have been involved in a series of terrorist incidents, the most serious of which was the 1980 Bologna train station bombing in which 85 people died. This book investigates all known stay-behind networks in Western Europe, documenting their existence and their link to terrorism.
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Ganser's comparative framework is the strongest argument against the "Italian exception" thesis
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Has anyone found evidence of stay-behind activity in Eastern Europe post-1989?
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◧ BRF-0085 — The Gladio network: NATO's secret stay-behind armies
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⬢ Gladio
⬢ NATO