November 22nd is the 27th anniversary of a European Parliament resolution condemning Operation Gladio. For decades, secret armies in over a dozen NATO countries carried out terrorist attacks to influence the political landscape and manipulate elections. In this article I look back at Gladio, highlighting the damage it did and the problems these operations cause for democracies. Examining the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the intelligence failures that led to 9/11 I ask whether NATO’s secret armies were truly shut down at the end of the Cold War.
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SpyCulture.com is written and produced by Tom Secker.
Tom is a British-based journalist, author, and podcaster. His specialities include the security services, Hollywood, propaganda, censorship and the history of terrorism. Tom’s writing and research has appeared in The Mirror, RT, Salon, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Independent, Insurge Intelligence, Shadowproof, TechDirt and elsewhere.
Tom lives on the Lancashire coast and is a proud Northerner. His favourite spy is Eddie Chapman a.k.a. Agent Zigzag. He may or may not sleep with a gun under his pillow.
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