You barely scratched the surface, but also you opened a huge can of worms. We now need episodes about Red Brigades, and Propaganda Due and all other "fun" stuff taking place across Italy and all of West Europe in ''60es and '70es.

@TheColdWarTV

3 жыл бұрын

and they will be coming...make sure you are subscribed!

@neues3691

3 жыл бұрын

Will the "years of lead" get an episode?

@mynameismynameis666

3 жыл бұрын

and their financial connections to people like Klaus Barbie and their cocaine cartel. boy oh boy, the inception of the panama papers...

@mynameismynameis666

3 жыл бұрын

@@adamradziwill said every cartel deathsquad financed by the CIA ever

@markshepherd3632

3 жыл бұрын

The bolongna train station was supposed to be done by the a gladio operative

I will stay behind in these comments and lead the like campaign.

@danilshcherbakov2126

3 жыл бұрын

thanks demiurge

I’m impressed! I didn’t expect to hear about Gladio. I remember a documentary that mentioned this program. Very well done!

@philip8551

3 жыл бұрын

Archer mentions it in the episode where Mallory kills the Italian Prime Minister

@AgenteET786

3 жыл бұрын

When I debate with ameriKKKan about Gladio they accuse me to be conspiracy’s theorist.

@mynameismynameis666

2 жыл бұрын

guess why the season ended so apruptly, because NATO who obviously tapped onto their funders fingers SEEING HOW THEY WANT TO START A WAR WITH RUSSIA AND CREATE GLADIO/STAYBEHIND in UKRAINE today

@maxheadrom3088

Жыл бұрын

@@philip8551 Is it about the murder of Aldo Moro? The documentary is called "Operation Gladio" and it was broadcast by the BBC. The author is documentarist Allan Framcovich who also did "In Company Business" and another one on the TWA terrorist attack over Lovkerby. On one attack in Turim, if I'm not mistaken, over 80 people died in the bombing on a train station.

@pjhoover1

8 ай бұрын

Watch GoodDog_555 with me on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/gooddog_555?sr=a

Topic suggestion: Franco's Spain and Salazar's Portugal.

It's fascinating to learn about some of these kind of official unofficial programs that went on during the Cold War. Thank you for your hard work and good deep research

Wow finally another underrated topic getting covered by an underrated channel

@Thaumazo83

3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful comment, kudos

I would have never researched and learned about this stuff on my own. It's an incredible job you guys are doing on this channel.

@shelaco1321

2 жыл бұрын

Better analysis with testimony from those directly involved in 1970s and former Gladio operatives is here - a documentary from 1992 made by BBC before BBC became a mouthpiece for all US foreign policy! This is real, first hand, indepth investigation. kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y42ctKSxqNy4odY.html

Hey guys! I had a distant relative who was part operation gladio, or at least he had a "gladio scroll". Gladio members were given these scrolls as a sort of "proof of membership". He was very enigmatic and died along with his secrets, which is a pity

@mikeyorkav4039

2 жыл бұрын

Rest in piss

@gnot_paul

Жыл бұрын

Gladio operators were terrorists, he should have died in prison.

God bless you for showing this to the world! Greetings, you are my favorite channel.

I just assumed our defense plan was to use McDonalds

@Huhi4et

3 жыл бұрын

Anastas Mikoian bring technology of fast food humburgers to USSR from USA in 1936 it's called «Горячая Московская котлета»

@RocheSimon

3 жыл бұрын

It was and it still is.

@mathewkelly9968

3 жыл бұрын

No the secret plan was Pepsi and PizzaHut

@Davey-Boyd

3 жыл бұрын

Surely that would be against the Geneva Convention or come under biological warfare rules. I'd rather be nuked than eat a Big Mac.

@Davey-Boyd

2 жыл бұрын

@A Velsen McDonalds cannot be called food. Even giving it to POW should be a war crime.

Amazing video. Thank for the information and great work.

Wow, never knew that so many groups were organized and supported by both sides. Looks like the cold war never really cold . Another great video.

@shelaco1321

2 жыл бұрын

A more comprehensive documentary with testimony from former Gladio operatives and others involved with events during the 1970s is from 1992 - the link is here kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y42ctKSxqNy4odY.html

@toprope_

2 жыл бұрын

One of Putin’s assignments at the KGB was supplying groups like these in Western Europe out of Germany. It seems brutal, but America did a lot of the same with stuff like Iran/Contra and who knows what else. Cold War is insane.

Wow, very interesting. Thank you guys.

wow that’s an incredibly important piece of my country history (Italy) thanks for covering that :)

@jorawarsingh2595

3 жыл бұрын

Do italians eat pasta daily?

@marcomolinari8354

3 жыл бұрын

@@jorawarsingh2595 yes

@TheLolol94

3 жыл бұрын

@@jorawarsingh2595 yes we do

@Thaumazo83

3 жыл бұрын

@@jorawarsingh2595 Many Italians do, yes. In the North of Italy we also eat a lot of rice (riso) and bread (pane).

@jorawarsingh2595

3 жыл бұрын

@@Thaumazo83 wow, the travel industry never tell anyone that italians also eat rice. The only europeans ever shows eating rice are the spainards with their recato.

Thank you very much. Amazing episode and an extremely interesting subject. Hope more episodes are on the way soon. Ganser's book was my first time even hearing about operation Gladio all over Europe. Although it draws much criticism and i would like to hear also your opinion on it's credibility. Can't wait to watch the your videos about operation Gladio in Italy, Greece and Turkey!

In the late 40's this probably made sense on paper. But no one thought about what to do with all these weapon stashes if they needed to be removed. Most of the counties where they were placed weren't informed ahead of time, so there would be a bit of a diplomatic issue if the US suddenly asked permission to dig up the stockpiles. I remember reading about a few, presumably from the same program, that were accidentally found during demolition and construction projects in France.

@theheatinferno8420

2 жыл бұрын

Enter UKRAINE🤪🤪🤪

Excellent video!! If only Andreotti could come back and tell us some of these stories first hand...

a very interesting video on a very Dark subject that goes very deep in to the intellegance community the name changes but the goal stays the same thank you for showing this i can't wait to see what you dig up in your next installment

In italy gladio was a big thing. They even carried several terrorists attacks during the years of lead and blamed the commies.

@luisfernandosantosn

3 жыл бұрын

Didnt know you guys also used the term "years of lead" to define times of political repression and violence (by both sides) in italian. I thought It was a portuguese thing.

@marcobonesi6794

3 жыл бұрын

@@luisfernandosantosn no. "Anni di piombo" years of lead is also used in italy.

@8bitorgy

3 жыл бұрын

Fake news

@Miami1991

3 жыл бұрын

I think we will have the years of lead here in the US soon

@marcobonesi6794

3 жыл бұрын

@ no. Several terrorist attacks like the one at the Bologna 's railway station were carried by gladio. Even the president Mattarella has admitted it last year. During the first hours after the attack The Police even beated to death one of the memebers of the local trade union since he was one of the "suspects".

Just in time for my morning coffee

Excellent presentation, interesting subject, very well edited and entertaining video. Brand New Subscriber!!

Thanks to much!!!

Kudos for your Italian pronounciation. Spotless! 👍🏻👍🏻

BBC Timeline program had an excellent 3 part documentary on Operation Gladio which aired in 1992. It's a chilling watch and makes you reconsider historical events of the 20th century.

@DavidLessem

2 жыл бұрын

And it really gives the lie to the official propaganda line that Gladio existed to defend against Soviet invasion.

What a awesome channel !

This sounds like something from a Ton Clancy's novel. I wasn't aware of those facts, but thinking about it makes the most sense, to stablish a resistance network before an invasion. On the other hand, with the policy of Mutual Assured Destruction any resistance would be unnecessary. Great content, as always

@whatabouttheearth

3 жыл бұрын

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@xaptor8685

8 ай бұрын

A game that has the Tom Clancy name on it called The Division is probably the closest thing to it.

In norway operation gladio is known as Stay Behind or Norsk okkupasjonsberedskap and the norwegian branch of gladio was code named ROC. The norwegian networks you had was Rocambole which consisted of small groups with secret stockpiles of weapons and other equipment. These groups were to sabotage targets in occupied territory and secure facilities that were still under Norwegian control. Next you had Lindus, which was a network of intelligence agents, including a group that would take care of the evacuation of certain types of Norwegian and allied personnel if the country was attacked. The last network was Blue Mix was a network that was to rescue allied soldiers who ended up behind enemy lines, e.g. pilots who had to make an emergency landing or parachute jump.

@n00rth

3 жыл бұрын

And the whole network was exposed when one of the members was caught producing moonshine in his home and didn’t have a good explanation for the secret bunker containing arms and ammunition for more than 100 men.

@kystartilleriet0270

3 жыл бұрын

@@n00rth yupp😄 and stay behind may actually been decommissioned in 1990 but the ROC the sabotage network was disbanded in 1983🙂

A very interesting video as usual. A request on my end, I would love to see a comprehensive video on the history of the British Intelligence Services.

Unrelated question: Will you plan on covering the space race in more detail? I know you made several references and touched on the subjects, but I think the topic definately deserves its own video if not mini series.

I have been going deeper and deeper into this rabbit hole for the last week and I don't see a way up back to surface.

please expand on Gladio and cover how they led Greece to a military dictatorship in 1967, thank you for your good work

I never knew about this 'Gladio' stuff. I looked up more about it and apparently in the Netherlands several weapons and explosive depots/bunkers belonging to our version of Gladio have been uncovered and plundered by organised crime members during the end of the last century. It's mind-boggling to me to only hear about this now.

@annoyed707

3 жыл бұрын

This happens when the watchers are not watch. Someone gets a habit and into debt, decides that it won't do any harm to sell off a few weapons...

@charlielynes

2 жыл бұрын

Some serious actions were taken during Galdio, devices planted, assassinations etc. Looking at the European modern Terror Activity, it compare to the Gladio model... 🤔🧐

In Austria, one of the remnants of World War II & the Cold War are the blue shield placards on historical properties deeming such cultural property to be protected in the event of armed conflict. This is eerily similar to the old "fallout shelter" placards dotting many old buildings in the states.

@cwilh6044

Жыл бұрын

I like that better, conceptually: markers indicating what is deemed culturally important enough to be protected from wanton destruction in the event of war.

The British also had a UK-based 'stay behind' organisation in 1940. They were known as the Auxiliaries and were teams of a few men, trained in reconnaissance and sabotage. Each team had a hidden underground shelter from which they could operate, in the event of an invasion.

@Ukraineaissance2014

2 жыл бұрын

I have a book of maps of the hides a group of these had in east yorkshire

@alanlawson4180

2 жыл бұрын

There was one near me, and I talked to one of the members a few years ago. They knew that their life expectency was short, and as they had no Comms at all, their value as Recce was slim; still, they would have but the fear of God into the Germans while active. They had better equipment than the regular forces at the time. The reason their existence was kept secret for a long time (decades) after th war ended was just because of this - they were a blueprint for future such Ops.

@ciaranleonard3744

9 ай бұрын

The Russians would have wiped you limeys out in a matter of days!🤧🤧🤧

fascinating

Looking forward to episodes about Aldo Moro's murder and also about his point of view about international relations. BTW, I hope it will be two episodes. As the person who opened a symposium on Aldo Moro held in NYC said (paraphrasing from memory) "Aldo Moro was set in a prison after his murder - a prison made of the event that holds Moro''s ideas in it".

You did a great job of explanation and synthesis. You need to read Italian books from Mr. Cereghino, showing you a more intricate web of precedents and complicities.

There is a book called "Special Forces Berlin" that listed a US Army unit for stay behind forces among The Berlin Brigade in West Berlin. That Special Forces force actually became proficient in anti-terrorist warfare. That force became the backbone of Eagle Claw, the failed attempt to rescue American hostages in 1980.

@TheColdWarTV

3 жыл бұрын

Detachment A was the name of the unit.

@edalder2000

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheColdWarTV Thank you. The name escaped me.

Very nice and interesting video. And your pronunciation of Italian names is good, and made nice by the Yankee accent.

Nice 👍

I was watching Archer on Hulu and they mentioned this in one of there episode and so I decided to look it up and I didn’t know this operation existed

@whatabouttheearth

3 жыл бұрын

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Usa: ok let's cup them like a central American nation Andreotti: are you sure about that?

So a youtuber gonna prove the PhD theory of Ganser wrong. This is going to be interesting! Especially since the first thing Glaser writes is that he wasnt allowed all documents about Gladio. And that he wishes that one of the main credits of his work will be the liberation of all this hidden information. So he doesnt know. And you dont know. But somehow you will be able to prove his theory wrong?

I was just listening to a podcast about operation Gladio.

@jacobtaylor4348

3 жыл бұрын

What podcast? I'd love to give it a listen

@OdintheGermanShepherd

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacobtaylor4348 the podcast is called “Conspiracy Theories” and the episodes are Operation Gladio pt. 1 and pt. 2 ...it is super interesting

I questioned how a 14 minute run time would cover the whole deal, but glad you started the series. I'll look forward to seeing how you follow up!

Hi, could you please link the sources? It would be interesting to take a deeper dive into this. Thanks for your work!

@bateli9733

3 жыл бұрын

Take a look at this BBC documentary: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eXt8usyIaNquo6Q.html They have interviews with members of the italian inteligence, far right and far left terrorists, and the leader of the Gladio division.

@andreynazarov8113

3 жыл бұрын

@@bateli9733 Many thanks!

@shadrackchabedi3447

Жыл бұрын

See book: NATO’s Secret Armies by Daniele Ganser. It’s a good book on the subject. I’m 50% into the video and the presentation sanitises Gladio networks, especially in the context of Italy. These were Far-Right terrorist groups, populated with facists and Neo-Naz!s, like Fredo Franco, who was eventually arrested for the bombing of Piazza Fontana in Italy that claimed 12 civilians. They were all illegal. Though they were purportedly “stay-behind-forces”, they engaged in a pre-emotive war using state organs and mass-scale killing of innocent civilians which state officials used to frame Communist Party members as a means to discredit the Communist Party and increase state security forces in the country. State officials belonging to these networks were also known to take evidence from the attacks and plant it on popular Left Wing figures in order to silence them, like the Left Wing editor, Giangiacomo Fletrineli. The CIA, as usual, was the head of the snake. In his book, Ganser claims that there’s no direct way of knowing if the CIA authorised the bombing of innocent civilians and if these networks simply went rogue, but testimony given by Giandelio Martello, who served Gladio and eventually fled Italy, suggests they did know and also procured the same bombs for these cells to use on Civilians. He testified that a week before the Piazza Fontana bombing, he had reported to his seniors at the military of an illegal shipment of explosives that came in from Germany and he was told to ignore it and later, investigations revealed that those same explosives were used in the Fontana bombing. Contrary to what the presenter says, the idea of a pre-emotive attack against a potential Communist uprising was not novel to Europe. It was a classic CIA strategy to propel fascists to commit acts of violence against Communists. This was the CIA’s strategy in Brazil and it was later employed in Indonesia, were the military killed over 3 million innocent civilians because they were convinced that the Communists, who interestingly had followed electoral processes and were peaceful, were about to enact armed revolution. There’s a quote by Richard M Bissel, former director of CIA, where he explains that “the idea is to create the threat of an external menace”. That single quote pretty much sums up the entire CIA strategy of these Gladio networks.

@notsorrystory

Жыл бұрын

​@@shadrackchabedi3447 thank you for this. I knew this video wasn't the whole story, but wow.

Stay back, baby! 😎👍😎

Since Italy was apart of this video, will you guys be doing a video on Italy's Years of Lead?

Good video. Thanks.

Try to make a video for ordine nuovo and Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari. Were they part or connected with gladio?

There was a british stay behind group setup in 1940 in case of sealion succes.

@Garron88

3 жыл бұрын

The auxiliary units, surprised it didn't get a mention tbh

@TheColdWarTV

3 жыл бұрын

If you are talking about the Home Defence Scheme, it wasn't really a stay-behind operation. It was designed with a life-span of about two weeks and was strictly developed and intended as a disruption force to help slow down the invasion. Some parallels for sure, but the intent was different, as I have understood it.

Corbett report has a series on this.

The X-com 2: Long war Narrative.

Dear The Cold War, where can i find your sources?

Jesus, if that's what the cia was doing then imagine what it's doing now. We need a president and congress with balls to investigate and shut them down, if they can manage it without getting their head blown off.

@nikoagnes6675

3 жыл бұрын

Damn right, dude

@IndieGinge

3 жыл бұрын

Anyone who is allowed close enough to power who actually would will be murdered or blackmailed or bought. Most likely bought. Inshallah that America falls or it's people develop the kind of balls the revolutionary forefathers they claim to love so much have. Current power structures will not allow a revolutionary agenda regarding the crime syndicates they call 'intelligence services"

@climberly

3 жыл бұрын

@@IndieGinge I'm not gonna disagree with ya on that.

@balladofthebroken7569

3 жыл бұрын

@@IndieGinge Absolutely concur. One question: what is the most damning piece of info from Gladio in regards to the CIA’s actions?

@spiderqueen4663

2 жыл бұрын

*whispers* this is only what they permitted us to find out.

oh no gladio , the Pandora's box of the Italian lead years has been opened😱

There were plenty of stay behinds. During the cold war, there some Royal Artillery Regiments the heavs who had stay behind OPs. Such a different time.

I'd heard that the Brabant Killers might be connected to this operation. How exactly?

Anyone know what the outro music is? Seems so familiar...

Been beginning to research this topic personally, thanks for dropping this! Big fan of your work, I love the cold war and I think it gets barely any attention compared to many other periods of History. What are your sources??

@arnaldoteodorani277

3 жыл бұрын

Giulio Andreotti’s big reveal: www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/11/14/cia-organized-secret-army-in-western-europe/e0305101-97b9-4494-bc18-d89f42497d85/ www.senato.it/service/PDF/PDFServer/BGT/318048.pdf Operation Golden Eye: warfarehistorynetwork.com/2016/11/21/operation-felix-franco-and-hitler-play-cat-and-mouse/ Operation Werewolf: www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/5-failed-missions-of-otto-skorzeny-hitlers-favorite-ss_commando-x.html CIC report on the RAC network: cryptome.org/cic/cic-italy/cic-italy-16JAN47.pdf The AIL Movement books.google.co.uk/books?id=H3y7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA239&dq=movimento+AIL&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2hdjtp5TrAhU7QkEAHVu-DyUQ6AEwBHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=movimento%20AIL&f=false www.ilgiornale.it/news/l-armata-che-guerra-difese-l-italia-pericolo-rosso.html www.storiaveneta.it/inchieste/138-il-capolavor-dell-infiltrazione-fascista-nel-tessuto-politico-della-repubblica/1603-le-sam-l-armata-italiana-di-liberazione-e-gli-alleati.html Gladio origins and chronology www.php.isn.ethz.ch/lory1.ethz.ch/collections/coll_gladio/chronology76c1.html?navinfo=15301 The BDJ in Germany www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/LCPROWL%20%20%20%20VOL.%202_0023.pdf www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/LCPROWL%20%20%20%20VOL.%204_0001.pdf Soviet forgery? www.scribd.com/document/199171609/Thirty-Year-Old-Soviet-Forgery-Cited-by-Researchers-US-Department-of-State-January-20th-2006

@TheColdWarTV

3 жыл бұрын

thanks Arnaldo!

@arnaldoteodorani277

3 жыл бұрын

The Cold War My pleasure!

Interesting topic that I haven't heard much about if anything.

@Thaumazo83

3 жыл бұрын

Almost no one knows about Gladio outside of Italy, in my experience

What's the music at the end?

Another tip: Operation Bluemoon (Gladio involved with the heroin trafficking in Europe and USA between Sicily and Marseille)

@messianic_scam

3 жыл бұрын

what is this cold war or heroin war

@AgenteET786

3 жыл бұрын

@@messianic_scam '65/'78

@AgenteET786

2 жыл бұрын

@A Fels What lies?

@AgenteET786

2 жыл бұрын

@A Fels Man, there are TRIALS in Italy about it 😂😂😂😂😂😂

In turkey it was called "counter guerilla"

@rageblanket2139

3 жыл бұрын

@Samuel Brown and that is based on......?

@Daniel-xb9il

3 жыл бұрын

@Samuel Brown Both are NATO creations

What exactly does RAC stand for?

Pierce Brosman was the James Bond in Golden Eye, not Sean Connery.

How about SMERSH? Are you going to make an episode about it?

@TheColdWarTV

3 жыл бұрын

SMERSH was disbanded and absorbed into the MGB (eventually the KGB) in 1946. While we will look at KGB espionage and counterespionage, we will not be looking at SMERSH specifically

@cjthegood

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheColdWarTV Ok

In Portugal we celebrate the 25th of April as if we had something to do with it. People are sheeple.

I agree with someone who stated this was an underrated channel. I look forward to this every week. Well done.

There's a great series written by Jack Murphy about an American military stay behind group named Detachment A in Eastern Germany.....

@TheColdWarTV

3 жыл бұрын

Detachment A was a real unit composed of 90 Special Forces members whose mission was sabotage and destruction in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion of the West. Murphy may have written fiction about them, but Detachment A was real.

@messianic_scam

3 жыл бұрын

mericans have to keep themselves busy they are easily get bored

Wow! From Wilhelm Canaris to the N64 in a flash. Now that's entertainment of today.

I recommend book by Daniele Ganser. When it comes to murder of carabinieri, he wrote that the evidence about C4 was hidden by a forensic expert who was a Gladio member.

@MontytheHorse

3 жыл бұрын

Ganser’s book is awful. He accepts Soviet disinformation documents as being real. A good book about Gladio has not been written.

@spiderqueen4663

2 жыл бұрын

​@@MontytheHorse This is literally the CIA's criticism of this book. If we accept that the Soviets can disseminate disinformation, then why not the CIA? They seem a little testy about it, frankly lol

Can you do a video on Operation Dropshot? The US plan to beat the soviets before rockets and missiles were implemented to carry nukes?

There was a similar institution in Switzerland, but I can't remember the name. I don't know who founded it, but I don't think it was the CIA directly at least

@arnaldoteodorani277

3 жыл бұрын

It was called P26

See Noam Chomsky and William Blum for critical perspective and more details on Operation Gladio, which was only in part designed to defend against Soviet invasion of Western Europe, which the US intelligence knew to be extremely unlikely, Russia having being crushed by WWII, and which was primarily motivated by simple imperialism, in the US-led war on democracy which ran from before 1945, through to the present.

@MoonChildMedia

3 жыл бұрын

war on democracy? do you view democracy as a good thing? Ironically, I believe it is this idea of "democracy" held by most people in the west these days has led to the loss of more freedom than I have seen during my lifetime. (P.S. I like some of Chomsky's work and let's remember ....he's an anarchist, as am I).

@jeffb.140

3 жыл бұрын

chomsky is a communist shill

Thanks to Chapo for educating a new generation on Operation Gladio!

This may have already been said somewhere but wouldn’t the British auxiliary units be consider more likely father of this plan?

Would be great to see something on the proxy war in Southern Africa in the 70s and 80s between the 'West' (secretly in the form of South Africa and Unita, and Rhodesia), Cuba, East Germany and the Soviets. I believe it was the last actual fighting before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, and limited Communist expansion in Africa? xxx

@TheColdWarTV

3 жыл бұрын

We will cover the proxy wars in Southern Africa, including Angola and Mozambique, but they are still a while off in our timeline. As for them being the last of the proxy wars, don't forget the fighting in Central America (Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador) as that carried through into the 90's.

@jamesbeaumont1212

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheColdWarTV Yes, thank you - I tend to overlook South America too often :-( xxx

To me it looks like the western countires were more like satellite states than independent allies.

Wait, there's a city called Toronto in southern Italy? That's the main takeaway for me.

@arnaldoteodorani277

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry to disappoint you, but it’s Taranto!

@MasterQueb222

3 жыл бұрын

@@arnaldoteodorani277 Aw man that does disappoint 😅

aka the true story of The Division

the usual outcome of Gladio initiatives throughout europe was that these "just in case" secret armies got bored of waiting for an invasion and started plotting more immediate ways to put all those cool toys to use

could he say any more abbreviations?!

Never! I shall use these newly discovered tools to liberate Bell Buttons everywhere.

Soviet Russia/The Soviet Union actually also created stay-behind partisan forces in its Western areas in accordance with its grand strategy in the 1920s and early 30s until offensive plans were adopted instead.

The question is do they still exist?

The United States had stay-behind networks also... The predecessor of the United States Militia Movement, the Patriot Fronts. Lot of these groups had political and financial support before the Sagebrush Revolt in the 70's.

Operation Urgent Fury (1983)

I think you have missed out the British stay behind saboteurs who had been trained and eqipped in the event of a German invasion? Not the home guard!

Home Guard Auxiliary???! The OG stay behind network!

Just like the Jestapo

Deng Xiaoping episode and his reforms episode will be good.

@Thaumazo83

3 жыл бұрын

"Getting rich is glorious", he said. Very communist... Yes, important topic.

So this is the inspiration for The Bourne Identity?

@TheColdWarTV

3 жыл бұрын

i don't believe so. Forsyth published Bourne Identity in 1980; Gladio wasn't confirmed until almost a decade later.

@jascrandom9855

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheColdWarTV I did not know that.

The Greek organization had the codename of "Red Sheepskin"

@oldesertguy9616

3 жыл бұрын

Who comes up with these names? That would be an awesome job! "I think this operation will be known as Porpoise Penis." I mean, some of them make sense, but some are kind of weird.

@apmoy70

3 жыл бұрын

@@oldesertguy9616 It alludes to the mythical Golden Fleece, in Greek fleece = sheepskin

@oldesertguy9616

3 жыл бұрын

@@apmoy70 Okay, now I get it. The Red part being the Soviets, I guess. Thank you.

@apmoy70

3 жыл бұрын

@@oldesertguy9616 Exactly, my pleasure

@AA-mf3om

3 жыл бұрын

I believe the right word instead of sheepskin is hide

Like for the N64 reference

Please help shed light on the problem in South Africa called farm murders it is a serious problem and my afrikaner volk need you help thank you for reading

One has to question how effective 700 guerrillas would be against a Soviet occupation...

Waiting for Malory Archer to be mentioned

@TheColdWarTV

3 жыл бұрын

don't hold your breath..all I've had today is like six gummi bears and some scotch.

@peymanmostafaei6963

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. But let's not spoil it :)

Actually, Britain had a resistance force in place in World War 2, in case the Germans occupied Britain. Learn more here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nq6dzq2ndt3Qd6Q.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/lKtrx8ONiKW7acY.html

Was that a baby I could here crying in the back round