Secret Armies why haven't I heard about this, oh wait.

@westernspy3500

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, exactly. Now Shh!

@CivilWarWeekByWeek

3 жыл бұрын

@@westernspy3500 My bad

@TheColdWarTV

3 жыл бұрын

The first rule of Gladio Club is don't talk about Gladio Club...

@CivilWarWeekByWeek

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheColdWarTV Second rule. Don’t microwave fish Ted!

@TheColdWarTV

3 жыл бұрын

Let's be honest, microwaving fish should be a war crime.

Lol “if such a thing could exist” the quiet savagery. I love this series, so well done and highly informative! I cannot confirm nor deny the pressing of the bell button at this time, however my counsel has authorized me to disclose that I’ve been a subscriber for some time.

@johnl5316

Жыл бұрын

" I cannot confirm nor deny the pressing" should read...." I cannot confirm OR deny the pressing" or....." I can NEITHER confirm nor deny the pressing"

@quimbey14

Жыл бұрын

As someone living in Europe, I can indeed confirm that the Eurovision Song Contest is a huge steaming pile of shite.

Belgium, Western Europe's revolving door / doormat since Caesar. 😅😭

@fullmetalalchemist9126

3 жыл бұрын

Just stop existing, easy!

@uzoma1541

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@marinazagrai1623

3 жыл бұрын

Organ...no worries, now all of Western Europe is the door mat of all who emigrate because they have no work at home and the population is too huge to be accommodated, again, at home.

@uzoma1541

3 жыл бұрын

@@marinazagrai1623 stfu

@BlissetEris

3 жыл бұрын

NATO, a terrorist organization that has the US democrats as puppets. Cold war is escalating again, since Biden the war in Ukraine is reviving.

Nice to always have some Cold War or K&G to watch while I eat my breakfast.

@marinazagrai1623

3 жыл бұрын

Jeff...that's funny, cause for me this is while prepping for some future meal...I'm here to learn some of what was not taught when I was in school (I was in a former Communist country - this was considered evil propaganda against the "Utopia" we were supposed to be in).

One of my family friends was stationed in west Germany, he told me about one story where they had to put a giant gun up on these rocks but the rocks started to loosen so they had to take it down. Cool guy and he actually did a course on the Cold War. I think he also got stationed in some famous cave although I’d have to ask him more the next time I meet him.

According to the Lund report the Norwegian network was already in existence before May 1945, and ROCAMBOLE simply coopted a private initiative by industrialists, shipping magnates and resistance leaders. There were in fact at least two or three competing initiatives in 1945, with some overlap in leadership.

I was doing homework but this seems more important

@TheColdWarTV

3 жыл бұрын

It is important. But finish your homework first; it's MORE important!

@mysterious7215

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheColdWarTV yes sure

@marinazagrai1623

3 жыл бұрын

mysterious...definitely do your homework, but also pay attention to these foreboding signs - those who don't know history are bound to repeat it! There is no right way to install a system (govt) that you will not be able to remove. All young people should watch these videos.

@mikeyorkav4039

2 жыл бұрын

@@marinazagrai1623 like neolibral capitalism.. it almost seems that its easier to envision the end of the world than the end of capitalism sadly

This series damned near needs a channel of its own.🤔 VERY interesting 👌

You could have said more about the Portuguese Gladio, like that after the Carnation Revolution some Aginter Press agents become part of ELP (Exército de Libertação de Portugal) and continue their operations in the Hot Summer of '75.

Again an extraordinary episode! Cheers, mates!

Enjoyed the series and subscribed!

Y'all should tell the story of Detachment A. A clandestine United States Army special forces unit that ran deep cover in East Germany and was a stay behind force in case of invasion and tasked with carrying out guerilla warfare. These weren't amateur insurgents, these were the best of the best in the American army.......

@ShinobiHOG

3 жыл бұрын

Contact Jack Murphy at Connecting Vets, he's done firsthand interviews with the members......

@marinazagrai1623

3 жыл бұрын

Shinobi...too bad the govt didn't know it had been perpretated by the Soviets since the early 30's, similar to the Cambridge 5!

@Chungus581

3 жыл бұрын

@@marinazagrai1623 perpetrated?

@wordherb1128

3 жыл бұрын

A fellow man of culture Jack gets a lot of hate but imo he’s great

@BichaelStevens

3 жыл бұрын

@@marinazagrai1623 perpetrated?

Well done The Cold War team so far, great content and presentation over the last year, please keep it up :)

The trouble with Belgian radio operators was a tendency to waffle.

@petebondurant58

3 жыл бұрын

There you go. That's the stuff.

4:20 I would recommend to anyone who’s interested in the Brabant Massacres to investigate Marc Dutroux who was a sort of hired killer and kidnapper for an unknown human trafficking ring in Belgium at the time.

@mrttripz3236

2 жыл бұрын

I know vaguely about the Dutroux affair. Very upsetting to say the least

Wonderfully done

Escorting the Belgium government out through the high mountain passes of Belgium would be even more challenging since Belgium doesn't have any mountains!

@someguy7723

2 жыл бұрын

Thats whats makes it so genius. Last thing the enemy would think of countering

Very informative video.

Excellent as always Cold War and K&G! This was absolutely fascinating! Interesting how the Benelux countries and Scandinavia made considerable efforts to prohibit Fascist infiltration into its Gladio Ops while Southern Europe was considerably more accommodating to say the least. Pretty shocking about Turkey’s Gladio too!

Very good insight.

@ 10:36 , President Truman created the PSB in 1951. President Eisenhower abolished it in 1953 and transferred its duties to his own creation, the Operations Coordinating Board.

L. O. K. stands for "mountain raiding units" it's the special forces branch of the greek army, the term is an echo of British WW2 terminology ( the original unit was part of the desert " raiding" commando) and although many members of those units was also members of many gladio schemes the stay behind network included members from all the greek military branches and they had different operational plans depending on the situation, in sort if an communist government had been elected or taken power by others means they could stage a coup by their operatives taking over the command of the army, and that's what they did in April 1967 after serval false flags operations they launched the coup to" save the country from the communists theat " On the other hand in the event of a foreign invasion and occupation the operatives would had to organize a resistance network mostly from men recruited during their military service with serving or ex members of the LOK playing a major role in organizing and training those groups.. Fun fact at the mountains of Central and Northern Greece people are still stumbling on supplies caches from that period 😏

@kimobrien.

Жыл бұрын

What is so fun about a fascist coup?

Hi @thecoldwar. You mention in this video that you would do another one on the rumors and theories surrounding stay behind. I'm struggling to find it. Could you please link to it? Thx

Archer’s dad was Gladio

I wonder whether this kind of operations existed in East Asia, too. I hope this channel covers that question one day.

Was there ever a similar Gladio-style stay-behind army by the Warsaw Pact and the USSR?

@ivarkich1543

3 жыл бұрын

I guess, no. All anti-West and anti-spy activities were coordinated by KGB (well known structure) and GRU (top secret organization).

@thomas_jay

3 жыл бұрын

@@ivarkich1543 The Warsaw Pact had covert groups and weapons caches at least in Western Germany. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruppe_Ralf_Forster (Use translate function in google.) Also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_Arbeitsgruppe_des_Ministers_S

@nairpic7360

3 жыл бұрын

The closest thing which comes to mind is the army of partisan fighters that was trained in Romania, in case of an invasion. They mostly consisted of young men and women who had a little bit of training with older equipment(i.e. usually ww2 blot action rifles or SMGs) and they were part of the mandatory youth communist movement. The weapon caches the government left for them were stored in secret locations, usually only knows to the army and/or intelligence services, and their contains were very lacking. In the same veins as their inspiration, that being the soviet partisans of WW2, they were supposes to conduct guerilla warfare and disrupt the enemy's supply lines. But that was coordinated by Bucharest, without the aid or consent of Moscow.

@thomas_jay

3 жыл бұрын

I did some further research and came up this from the former GDR: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_Arbeitsgruppe_des_Ministers_S

@jurisprudens

3 жыл бұрын

USSR expected to be on the offensive during the war, thus, there was no perceived need of such armiies. Moreover, the experience of WWII showed that "stay-behind" operations could be performed by the communist party and police structures themselves.

Happy new year to everyone. By the way didn't u already did two videos on this .

@TheColdWarTV

3 жыл бұрын

This is the third video in a series. The first was the stay behind networks in Italy and Germany, the second was the stay behind networks in the neutral European countries and this is on the NATO countries in Europe

@bhutochakrabarti4173

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheColdWarTV Ok. Well happy new year by the way.

I usually struggle to follow your videos in order, and sometimes those from Kings and Generals. It would be useful if in the description there would be links to the previous and next episodes. The Cold War playlist starts with Lebanon in 1958 and ends with Potsdam 1945 with some 1960s in between.

Greek here ,the works and pland you describe were put in place by the so called sheepskin group . The L O K weren't and aren't any secret army . They are just a branch of the special forces Greek Army command specializing in mountain warfare . They fought with bravery and turned the tide of battle in the greek civil war that you have already covered . Lochos is just a company sized unit , oreinon translates to mountainous and katadromeas stands for raider . Cheers

18:24 Alright, Darth Maul... Calm it down.

@TheCimbrianBull

3 жыл бұрын

LOL 🤣 😅 🤣

your mention og Luxembourg planning for invasion reminded me that Lichtenstein has been invaded a few times, by Swiss forces confused about map-reading...

"Rocambole" is a type of cake in my homeland

I have dilligently co-opted the bell button, Comrade.

I bet James and Jeremy would both like this channel

@accent1666

3 жыл бұрын

Who are they?

@davidjean2170

3 жыл бұрын

@@accent1666 2 of the hosts of bbc’s top gear UK from the 2000’s. They’ve since moved on to “the grand tour” on Amazon prime

On th subject of Greece it should be noted that the ΛΟΚ also was a regular unit of the greek army recruiting volunteers from the conscripts of each trimester.

The Benelux - Europe's screen door. Oh David! LOL!!!!!

This makes me wonder what would happen to these networks in the aftermath of a nuclear war. Thanks for the video. :)

@eldorados_lost_searcher

3 жыл бұрын

In the words of Storm, "The same thing that happens to everything else."

@marinazagrai1623

3 жыл бұрын

Kevin...there have been enough scares of that sort during the last half century, so let's not think of that possibility!

No Uranus jokes in comments? I'm genuinely impressed by this community xD

All I could find on exercise badgers lair :The annual Autumn exercise held in Soltau, Germany, 8 23 SAS (TERRITORIAL) patrols establish patrol hides and British Army Signals teams acting as KGB OPFER (Opposing Forces) try to intercept the teams by DF - Direction Finding. During the exercise R.A.F. reconnaissance flights overfly the area using thermal-imaging and monochrome photography. Ground searches with tracker dogs are also employed. Results vary, but on one exercise out of 39 established hides 37 were found within the first 6 hours and Burst Transmission signals were intercepted. Using simulated data it was estimated Soviet Direction Finding had a range of 12km with an accurate triangulation range of 5km. The records on it have been open since 2005 but are sadly not available for download

This might be your best series so far. The criminal underworld is small, and it inevitably rubs up against the clandestine one. I wonder what tangled webs got woven in the shenanigans of Europe during the boomer's day.....

@lundsweden

Жыл бұрын

Most of this was pre boomer though, the greatest generation lol

When you talk about the accusations against the Gladio network it would be nice if you talk about their possible involvement in the murder of Olof Palme the priminister of Sweden. Not sure what I think my self, but I think a lot of people would like to hear about this.

@AlexandraBryngelsson

3 жыл бұрын

Here is some info about the murder. www.marxist.com/the-assasination-of-olof-palme-and-the-investigation-that-buried-the-truth.htm

@saint4life09

3 жыл бұрын

@@AlexandraBryngelsson That source immediately seems worryingly biased judging by the name lmao

Oh, would like to hear more about Paladin and ODESSA (not the city)!

Please make a viseo about books about history of coldwar

"The problem with the cold war, is it doesn't take too much time before it becomes heated." You could really juice that up, "...before things heat up." Much better.

1 small correction/clarification around the 8 minute mark. It is mentioned that the BeNeLux countries were used as an invasion route to France during both world wars. This is true for ww2, however during ww1 The Netherlands was a neutral country, while the video seems to imply that the entire BeNeLux was invaded during both ww1 and ww2 which would be wrong. As a Dutchy I just felt that I had to mention that.

@johnforbes8282

3 жыл бұрын

Holland was netural in both world wars, & ended up fighting for both sides, some in the resistance, some fled abroad & joined the allies, some joined the Vermarch and fought for the Germans.

@Mysteriousman232

3 жыл бұрын

​@@johnforbes8282 Aside from volunteer forces which for the record were not state sanctioned. The Netherlands did not participate in the fighting during world war 1, as they were a neutral country during that war. This is in contrast to the other BeNeLux countries that did fight in both world wars on account of actually being invaded in both wars.

What about Ireland, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino, Liechtenstein and the Vatican City?

@jurisprudens

3 жыл бұрын

For commies, every priest was an "agent" ;)

@burritoxl6056

2 жыл бұрын

@@jurisprudens Well the Vatican did help nazis get out of Europe and escape justice.

@jurisprudens

2 жыл бұрын

@@burritoxl6056 Whom? Proof? ;)

killing it with that pronunciation

@TheColdWarTV

3 жыл бұрын

maybe less "killing it" and just plain old murder lol

@ManzanaRepublica

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheColdWarTV Aginter, antiger, tomato, tomatoe?

Since Ike didn't become President until 20 January 1953, either someone else created the Psychological Strategy Board, or you have the date, April 1951, wrong.

The Greek branch of the plan was called 'Red Fleece'. LOK is not a secret organisation. It is the Special Forces of the Greek Army. LOK had nothing to do with Gladio/ Red Fleece network. The Gladio/Red Fleece plan was implemented in Greece with the recruitment of veterans of the WWII, the Resistence and the civil war. The cells were developed in close proximity with the secret services and the TEA (voluntary national guard / militia, which was setup after the end of the civil war and the victory against the communists in order to oversee any possible new communist revolt)

We do not need militias! What about "Secret Armies"?

@bricksbrickman

3 жыл бұрын

basically the plot for "the division" franchise

SDRAVIII/WNP is one of the most insane things about the Cold War, honestly Gladio is the reason I will never, ever support NATO. Everyone involved in this operation should be locked in jail for life.

5:49 eyebrows on fleek! 👀

12:49 rocambole is a type of cake-roll where I come from

Can you do on the Warsaw Pact stay behind armies and the Chinese,DPR Korean,and Yugoslav

@jurisprudens

3 жыл бұрын

USSR did not have such armies. It expected to be on the offensive during the war.

@spanishboysmodels2876

3 жыл бұрын

@@jurisprudens ok

Can u cover the Sino Indian war of 1962

Talks about Belgium, pictures mountain troops.

10:30 "President Eisenhower in 1951" 😬 ummm...Ike wasn't president until 1953.

Photo in 20:35 was actually belong to turkish cypriots before the 1974 operation done by EOKA terror group

You should intersperse brief segments in which you are directly looking at the camera (the viewer in the eye). It is plain you are avoiding this and it negatively affects the viewer.

14:13 can somebody provide source for Absalon repulsing Russian invasion? All I can find is Absalon's campaigns against the Wends.

As a paranoid Communist conspiracy theorist I doubted I would ever see a large channel covering Gladio but I guess we’re here now.

They can easily "sensitize" the public to the dangers of communism by telling them they have to stand in 3 separate queues to buy one item of clothing.

11:53 Uhh... Being 3rd-Gen *"Scandihoovian-American",* I hate to say that Finland isn't "technically" Scandinavian... Breaks my heart into a million pieces honestly. Even though they believe in the same mythology as WE do in the Trifecta of Norway, Sweden & Denmark [Norse Mythology] but sadly they were under the Russian Empire so we can't really/"legally" acknowledge them sadly :'(

@TheHoagie13

3 жыл бұрын

I'm Half Norwegian BTW/by the way

@someguy7723

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheHoagie13 dont even try coming back burger, we are full

Loved the joke about eurovision. That abomination was hosted in my home city this year we all had to suffer through it

We need these again, now.

You missed out Sweden! An interesting story...

I wonder if the USSR and their allies had something comparable in place.

In 1967 in Greece 4 coups we going to happen 1 from the navy 1 from the king 1 from the comunists and the last 1 that came first was from the organization x which the generals were members that's why the coup happened

USAF Forces in UK were to stand post as long as possible then “take to the hills”. Apparently nobody was coming for us. Join the resistance they said, “it’ll be fun”.

Try finding out just how and who funded these programs. Now that will be interesting.

What Happen to British Stay behind Forces ?

@saint4life09

3 жыл бұрын

I thought the same but I'm fairly sure it just was such a massively unlikely event that there was never any point in arranging much reaction to a potential occupation. The UK was the "Third superpower" of the Cold War after afterall.

@whatabouttheearth

3 жыл бұрын

They were NATO post WW2 forces, the US adopted a open presence so I guess the only ones who staued behind were the fascists. "Stay behind" is a bot of a misnomer kzread.info/dash/bejne/hmmqm5euZdeYaJc.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y4lttJVuptCzccY.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/dJeem5R_n9KxibQ.html kzread.info/head/PLgRoK-eyLjokNbuTECBm-MWhOa0fa0yhV

GLADIO!

It is very similar to Indy Neidell's You tube channel: World War Two

11:03

Bishop Absalon did not repulse a Russian invasion. He fought against Wends that hat got into the habit of raiding Danish coastal areas. I wonder where they did get inspiration from. Also it seemed like at least some in the Danish military feared a communist secret army that did not exist.

James May not included well done...

LEGIO!

19:52 ff anyone?

They are being dissolved.

I wonder if in the new NATO countries from the former Warsaw Pact and Balkans have stay behind networks.

@gramsci747

3 жыл бұрын

@lati long watch the Ukrainian film Atlantis to find out what happens when the Ukrainians take back Ukraine.

@jurisprudens

3 жыл бұрын

Poland has created territorial defense units, mostly aimed at irregular warfare.

I HATE the language used to justify these actions as defensive.

Menzies is pronounced Min-giss actually...

I can't wait for the Algerian war of independence

@BuildingCenter

3 жыл бұрын

Neither can Algeria.

@mysterious7215

3 жыл бұрын

Also India

Sign me up for the O team.

Hi

I wonder if the Communists had any Gladio style plans just in case the West went East. Probably not. But who knows. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

@brokenbridge6316

3 жыл бұрын

@lati long---I wonder if this channel will do a video on that.

@jurisprudens

3 жыл бұрын

In the East there was no need for clandestine armies, because the entire communist party network, etc, could be used as such.

@brokenbridge6316

3 жыл бұрын

@@jurisprudens---Yeah but did they have any plans in place just in case the West successfully invaded? That's what I've been wondering.

@jurisprudens

3 жыл бұрын

@@brokenbridge6316 Being Russian, I have never heard of “clandestine networks” for these particular purposes. I heard of mobilisation plans, civil defense, but not this thing. In the wwii, Soviet guerilla activity on German occupied territory was coordinated by the communist party functionaries and police, both acting underground. Their main activity was to harass those who collaborated with Germans. They also conducted attacks against infrastructure, but it was less effective. I guess, in case of US invasion at the Far East, they planned the same thing. In Europe, however, the Soviet army was expected to be on the offensive, precluding the need to prepare for stay behind

@brokenbridge6316

3 жыл бұрын

@@jurisprudens---Okay. I guess that's a fair way to look at it. Thanks for replying.

Early bois

What about Sweden that had arms caches throughout the country that were raided by biker gangs with disatrous results?

@TheColdWarTV

3 жыл бұрын

we did a separate episode covering the establishment of stay-behind networks in neutral countries, including Sweden.

@jamesfletcher4382

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheColdWarTV Beauty, will watch asap!

There's too many French language and references in this story. This being said, I can now see the value of teaching French in school. Keep up your excellent work!

As a Belgian, I find it weird that you used the French name for our security service? Especially when most Belgians don't even speak French as their native language, hence why the Dutch name for the service was on top. Also, just use the English name for Belgian services, because language here is very controversial.

Whats about Gladio turkey ? The most powerful and active part of Gladio.

Germany after WWII: Nadsis EVERYWHERE..!

"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

@thechekist2044

3 жыл бұрын

Solzhenitsyn is a dead man. Irrelevant in Russia, celebrated by reactionaries in the west.

@thechekist2044

3 жыл бұрын

Solzhenitsyn should've been

@thechekist2044

3 жыл бұрын

A dead dog, unfortunately he survived the gulag

@mikeyorkav4039

2 жыл бұрын

Even his wife called out his bullshit

You have a wonderful French accent "sûreté de l´état" and "service de documentation extérieure et contre espionnage". You are from Canada, right? By the way, O.A.S led by Raoul Salan was a terrorist right-wing organization that refused the idea of an independent Algeria since it was a province not a protectorate like neighboring Tunisia.

Algorithm

Please make the video on kgb penetration programme in india and influence our indian elections and politics please make the video about Leonid Shebarshin

Reacting to dreams face reveal

Right wing this, right wing that, my damn milk is right wing!

1:10 Hahaha

Possible invasion by the USSR 😄. The USSR literally never had any plan to invade, moreover it was so anti war and exploitation that it constantly sponsored anti colonial struggle in Africa and South America, as per usual, being a basic socialist principle.

@randomguy-kn1wl

5 ай бұрын

So they invaded afghanistan as joke i guess? they butchered so many lifes because they were innocent and anti war