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Dossier No. 09 · Ideology — conviction

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Secret military networks all across Europe

classified
Protagonist
CIA / MI6 / Gladio
Period
1947-1990
Nature
Network
Main location
Rome (Gladio), Italy · Italy
MICE motive
Ideology — conviction

A pan-European clandestine network created by the CIA and MI6 in the immediate post-war years: arms caches and sleeper cells ready to resist a Soviet invasion. Revealed on 24 October 1990 by Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti, it was dismantled amid controversy.

On the ground

  • Rome (Gladio)
  • Paris (Rose des Vents)
  • Berlin
  • Bern (P-26)
  • Vienna
  • Oslo

Route: Rome → Paris · Rome → Berlin · Rome → Bern · Rome → Oslo

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