RT Article
T1 The ghost of Machiavelli: an approach to operation Gladio and terrorism in cold war Italy
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 45
IS 2
SP 111
OP 154
A1 Ganser, Daniele 1972-
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1882378873
AB In 1990, a document was made public in Italy that shed new light on the secret aspects of the Cold War in Western Europe. The document, dated 1 June 1959, had been compiled by the Italian military secret service SIFAR and is entitled "The special forces of SIFAR and Operation Gladio". It explained that a secret stay-behind army linked to NATO had been set up in Italy for the purpose of unconventional warfare. Ever since, there have been allegations in Italy that the Gladio stay-behind army was linked to acts of terrorism during the Cold War. Despite their importance for criminal, legal and social investigations into the secret history of the Cold War, these questions have received next to no attention among the English-speaking research community since the documents' discovery, partly due to language barriers. With no claim to deal with the stay-behind armies in an exhaustive manner, this essay attempts to analyse and contextualise the Italian data.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 153-154
K1 Intelligence Service
K1 National Security Council
K1 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
K1 Secret Service
K1 Special Force
DO 10.1007/s10611-006-9015-7