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NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe (Contemporary Security Studies) 1st Edition

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This book tells the story of NATO's secret anti-communist stay-behind armies that had been set up by the CIA and MI6 after World War Two in all countries of Western Europe and in some countries became tragically linked to right-wing terrorism
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  5. Part of series
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'Much of this is appearing in English for the first time and it would be hard to overstate its importance.' - Lobster

About the Author

Daniele Ganser is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. He studied at Basel University in Switzerland, at Amsterdam University (UVA) in the Netherlands, and at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in England. He has published on the role of the United Nations in the Cuban conflict, Switzerland's path towards the United Nations and Switzerland's position outside the European Union.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 22, 2004
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0714685003
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0714685007
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.76 x 9.21 inches
  • Part of series ‏ : ‎ Contemporary Security Studies
  • Customer Reviews:
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  • Teo Jacobsen
    5.0 out of 5 stars This is a book Im reading as part of my effort to understand 20th century history.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2024
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    So far, Daniel Gansers book on NATO has revealed much information that was new to me. Highly interesting. Recommended!
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  • Brad Rockwell
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book on an overlooked aspect of European history
    Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2020
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    This shows how fascism is always an option in capitalist democracies. If Western Europe had turned left, the fascists would have come out with arms supplied by the CIA and others.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five stars, at least
    Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2016
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    You be like "five stars, you for real n-word". But trust me, this book will blow your mind. I kid you not, buy it.
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  • Firenze Zen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent information.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2016
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    Important to know this. Excellent information.
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  • Concerned Citizen in CT
    4.0 out of 5 stars The sides have flipped.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2024
    Fascinating history of what hate can do. In the 21st century it's the far-left that are aligned with Evil and hate groups.
    What side of the imaginary fence you're on depends on the propaganda that you swallow.
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  • Francesco Lovecchio
    5.0 out of 5 stars An interpretative key for the understanding of many European misteries
    Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2005
    The author is a Swiss researcher who has nicely managed to document in one volume the modus operandi of a secret stay-behind army in Europe which operated since the end of WWII until the end of the Cold War. The book provides a complete documentation of the general patterns of this army across Europe that if taken in isolation would seem improbable. This super secret Army was operating in all Western European countries under different codenames and coordinated by the Allied Clandestine Committee and the Clandestine Planning Committee under the umbrella supervision of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) within the NATO and with the active supporting role of the Pentagon, CIA and the British MI6. The goal of this army was to operate behind enemy lines setting up resistance movements in case of a Soviet invasion of Europe. The secret army was clandestine and illegal in many countries and staffed by loyal anti-communist soldiers and rightwing activists recruited from various sectors, many with a past with the nazis or fascist armies during WWII. These armies have been employed also against the national communist (and in some case socialist) parties (Demagnetize Operation) under the complacence of domestic intelligence services with several suspect cases of assassinations and some documented cases of terrorist attacks against civilian targets, or in overturning democratically elected governments (Greece and Turkey) too dangerously left-leaning. Italy plays an important part in this story since Italy was theatre of several operations and last but not least, a former prime minister eventually admitted before Parliament in 1990, after the investigations of a judge, that a stay-behind army had operated since WWII, opening a Pandora's box of revelations. To each country are dedicated 18 specific chapters (UK, USA, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Greece, Turkey, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria) with specific documented episodes, that offers a clarifying picture of this super secret organization. Much remains to be discovered, but the merit of this book is to have put together scattered information in a well organized way. Recommended.
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  • SmokeNMirrors
    5.0 out of 5 stars A damning inditement of our supposedly democratic system
    Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2009
    A seminal work in which Danielle Ganser provides us with the coordinates to help us put things like the so-called War On Terror into their proper contexts. He shows that the majority (if not all) of the western European governments, supposedly democratic in nature, have engaged in activities which can only be described as undemocratic since the end of WWII. The necessity to "prevent the spread of Communism" is an invalid question when examined from the standpoint of the democratic will; for if the majority favour Communism then, theoretically, that is what democracy is all about. And there can be no question of degrees; democracy either exists or it does not. Like free speech, you cannot have democracy up to a point.

    That there has since the 1990s been little public accountability (despite public acknowledgement that the activities did take place) raises crucially important questions about the validity of the War On Terror, British involvement in Northern Ireland and elsewhere, and many other similar occupations and internal conflicts as well as many of the events which have been attributed to "terrorists" over the past decade or so. For not only do we not know that the countries involved actually dismantled the stay-behind armies in the 1990s, we don't know which countries ran stay-behind armies in each others' countries - and whether these were likewise dismantled. In fact, the main protagonists (the UK & USA) have so far refused to comment.

    Whilst many would argue that this is essential to protect national security, this argument, when examined logically, is baseless. For if we truly do live in democracies then no government should be above the law. And when supposedly-demoractic governments encourage - or turn a blind eye to - actions which are undeniably anti-democratic then it would seem to stand to reason that we actually don't live in democracies at all.

    Danielle Ganser has added one more link into an ever-strengthening chain of evidence that democracy truly does not exist. A truly disturbing story; this is history that everyone should know.
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  • Zhenie
    1.0 out of 5 stars Anti-NATO propaganda
    Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2025
    Ganser's book on Operation Gladio is conspiracy-laden and uses a forged training manual as historical evidence. This lack of real scholarship and/or deliberate disinformation undermines the work. It should be disregarded.
    "The US State Department stated in 2006 that Ganser had been taken in by long-discredited Cold War era disinformation and "fooled by the forgery". In an article about the Gladio/stay-behind networks and US Army Field Manual 30-31B they stated, "Ganser treats the forgery as if it was a genuine document in his 2005 book on 'stay behind' networks, Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe and includes it as a key document on his website on the book."
    Anyone interested in the real story of Operation Gladio needs to review primary sources and not be taken in by the abundance of anti-NATO propaganda efforts (like this one) that continue to be promoted by witting or unwitting Kremlin operatives.
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  • Amazon Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Impressive, unique, fundamental
    Reviewed in Italy on August 29, 2016
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    There are lots of very good reviews here, so I will not go into details

    This book goes into details, documented, with lots of reference, and the author "splits" the entire SB beast country by country

    Just one issue prevents the 5th star: I have bought the kindle edition and it's crammed with incredible typos.

    I mean: entire paragraphs skipped, repetead, or wrongly presented - this prevents in at least 2 parts comprehension

    but anyway: buy this. It's Europe history.

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  • NCR
    1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of money and time
    Reviewed in Spain on May 12, 2018
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    I bought this book thinking it was a serious research effort in the subject. No such case. This is just an assorted collection of political motivated newspaper quotes and citations.

    No serious research, documents, facts or testimonies.

    It's hard to believe this book was written to obtain an university degree. Scary...

    Among many others, the chapter regarding Portugal is a real joke.
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  • SmokeNMirrors
    5.0 out of 5 stars A damning inditement of our supposedly democratic system
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 1, 2009
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    A seminal work in which Danielle Ganser provides us with the coordinates to help us put things like the so-called War On Terror into their proper contexts. He shows that the majority (if not all) of the western European governments, supposedly democratic in nature, have engaged in activities which can only be described as undemocratic since the end of WWII. The necessity to "prevent the spread of Communism" is an invalid question when examined from the standpoint of the democratic will; for if the majority favour Communism then, theoretically, that is what democracy is all about. And there can be no question of degrees; democracy either exists or it does not. Like free speech, you cannot have democracy up to a point.

    That there has since the 1990s been little public accountability (despite public acknowledgement that the activities did take place) raises crucially important questions about the validity of the War On Terror, British involvement in Northern Ireland and elsewhere, and many other similar occupations and internal conflicts as well as many of the events which have been attributed to "terrorists" over the past decade or so. For not only do we not know that the countries involved actually dismantled the stay-behind armies in the 1990s, we don't know which countries ran stay-behind armies in each others' countries - and whether these were likewise dismantled. In fact, the main protagonists (the UK & USA) have so far refused to comment.

    Whilst many would argue that this is essential to protect national security, this argument, when examined logically, is baseless. For if we truly do live in democracies then no government should be above the law. And when supposedly-demoractic governments encourage - or turn a blind eye to - actions which are undeniably anti-democratic then it would seem to stand to reason that we actually don't live in democracies at all.

    Danielle Ganser has added one more link into an ever-strengthening chain of evidence that democracy truly does not exist. A truly disturbing story; this is history that everyone should know.
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  • Gabriel M A
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on February 10, 2018
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    great
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  • Luc REYNAERT
    5.0 out of 5 stars There are few archbishops in espionage
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 7, 2007
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    D. Ganser's book is frightening. He shows how a secret stay-behind network (Gladio) that should only become effective after a Warschaw Pact invasion of Western Europe, became an all important factor in Western politics, after the wealthy and powerful understood that their real enemies were the strong communist parties in Western democracies and the political parties of the left.

    As John Prados says in his excellent introduction: `in country after country, Gladio influenced, violently or not, political processes through fear and terrorism. Police and security services protected perpetrated crimes and antidemocratic `state sponsors' created terrorist networks.'

    It was everything except a benign game of play. In Italy alone, the strategy of tension was responsible between 1969 and 1987, for 14591 (not less) acts of violence with political motivation. There and elsewhere, bombs exploded in Bologna, Munich and Istanbul leaving hundreds of dead and crippled.

    Other dirty `tricks' were torture, coup d'états, election fraud, assassinations, disinformation, provocation and false flag operations. In one word, a destructive spiral of violence.

    This warfare planning group was linked to NATO, the Pentagon and the CIA and operated completely outside democratic control from the nationally elected legislators. It made a joke of national sovereignty.

    A must read for all those who try to understand the world we live in.
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