Operation Gladio: The CIA’s Secret Fascist-Collaborating Terror Armies in Europe and Beyond
Operation Gladio: The CIA’s Secret Fascist-Collaborating Terror Armies in Europe and Beyond
See full episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/83190433 Collaboration between the US and fascists is a pattern that stretches back to the end of World War II and NATO’s founding, when the US and British intelligence services established a secret far-right terror network armies across NA...
Operation Gladio was also used to maintain [neo]imperialism in the global South, and, you know, one example of that—again, I have to credit Asa Winstanley—is that the right‐wing dictatorship of António Salazar in Portugal allowed Portugal to be a major Gladio base, which, um…which was called—it had its own army called ‘Aginter Press’, which trained terrorists for assassination operations, targeting liberation struggles in Portugal’s African colonies. So this went beyond just what was happening in Europe.
(Admittedly, some of what this video shares is nothing new, but having a reminder every now and then is fine.)