STATE TERRORISM

There was an interesting article in todays Neue Zürcher Zeitung about a clandestine Nato intelligence army called "Gladio" which was active in many Countries through Europe operating without knowledge of Parliments and carrying out Terrorist attacks in Itali during the 1970's.The Gladio-Secret Army was uncovered during parlimentary enquiries into terrorattacks from Brigade Rosso in Italy in 1990. Gladio carried out Terror Attacks in Italy to blame it on the left wing guerilla group "Brigade Rosso" with the goal to create fear under the civilian population so that they will ask for a more authoritarian Goverment and stronger homelandsecurity laws to fight this communist guerilla group. Later it was learned that Gladio was active in many European countries including the "neutral" Sweden and Switzerland where Gladio was active under the name P-26. Gladio was build with the goal to be a secret "stay-behind army" should communist sovjetunion take over europe and to engage them in guerilla warfare should other means fail.unfortunately the articel is not available online and in german. Maybe there's more information in english at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) of the ETH Zürich which is running a research project in that whole matter. I will check that out later.you can download the Hi-res Version of my Scan here