Secret Warfare: Operation Gladio and NATO's Stay­Behind Armies

Edited by Daniele Ganser and Christian Nuenlist

Introduction, by Daniele Ganser Table of Contents of NATO's SECRET ARMIES Synopsis of NATO's SECRET ARMIES Chronology Selected Bibliography Documents about the Author

Documentary on the Book Launch of "NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and in Western " by Daniele Ganser Terrorism in Western Europe: An Approach to NATO’s Secret Stay­Behind Armies (The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations) by Daniele Ganser International Conference on "Intelligence in Waging the ," Oslo, 29­30 April 2005 Ganser, Daniele (2005): Gli eserciti segreti della NATO. Operazione Gladio e terrorismo in Europa occidentale. Novità: Fazi Editore.

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Documents

Memorandum from Lieutenant General Leon W. Johnson (US Representative of 31 December 1956 NATO Military Committee and Standing Group) to the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Language: English Subject: Clandestine Intelligence Source: Declassified Documents Reference System, Document no. 133, 1980.

Report by the Italian Military Secret Service (SIFAR) on Operation "Gladio" 1 June 1959 Origin: SIFAR, Office "R", Section "SAD" Language: Italian Subject: "SIFAR Special Forces and Operation 'Gladio'" Source: Primo Moroni, Mario Coglitore and Sandro Scarso (eds.), La notte dei Gladiatori: Omissioni e silenzi della repubblica (Padova: Calusca Edizioni, (2)1992)

US Field Manual 30­31B 18 March 1970 Author: General William C. Westmoreland (Chief of Staff of the US Army) Language: German Source: Regine Igel, Andreotti: Politik zwischen Geheimdienst und Mafia (München: Herbig, 1997), Appendix, pp. 345­58. Translation

William Colby, "Chapter Three: A Scandinavian Spy," in Honorable Men: My Life in 1978 the CIA (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978), pp. 78­107. Language: English

Memorandum from Director Signal Intelligence (Major General Horst Männchen) 6 November 1984 to Deputy Director of the East German Ministry of State Security Language: German (Lieutenant General Gerhard Neiber) Source: BStU Archives, Berlin Report by Italian Prime Minister to the Stragi Commission of the October 1990 Italian Senate Language: French Subject: "SID parallelo ­ Operazione Gladio Translation Source: Jean­François Brozzu­Gentile, L'affaire Gladio: Les réseaux secret américains au coeur du terrorisme en Europe (Paris: Albin Michel, 1994), Appendix, pp. 253­59.

Parlamentary Investigation into the Swiss Defense Ministry 1 2 17 November 1990 Authors: Swiss Parlamentary Commission (Mr. Carlo Schmid, President of the Commission) Language: German Subject: "Bericht der parlamentarischen Untersuchungskommission zur besonderen Klärung von Vorkommnissen von grosser Tragweite im Eidgenössischen Militärdepartement," pp. 175­277.

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request to the Central (CIA) 15 March 1991 by the National Security Archive Language: English Author: Malcolm Byrne, National Security Archive Subject: "CIA's 'Operation Gladio'"

Parlamentary Investigation into the Existence of a Secret Internatioanl Intelligence 1 October 1991 Network in Language: French / Authors: Belgian Senate (Mr. Erdman and Mr. Hasquin) Flemish Subject: Enquête parlementaire sur l'existence en Belgique d'un réseau de renseignements clandestin international

Parlamentary Investigation into Terrorism in 1995 Author: Italian Senate (Giovanni Pellegrino, President of the Senate Commission) Language: Italian Subject: "Il terrorismo, le stragi ed il contesto storico­politico"

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 14 December 2000 by Daniele Ganser Language: English Author: Daniele Ganser Subject: "Freedom of Information Act Request on CIA's 'Operation Gladio'"

First Reply (Request Declined) by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to Daniele 28 December 2000 Ganser re: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request on Operation Gladio Language: English Author: Kathryn I. Dyer, Information and Privacy Coordinator (CIA) Subject: "CIA's 'Operation Gladio'"

Appeal to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by Daniele Ganser re: FOIA 23 January 2001 Request on Operation Gladio Language: English Author: Daniele Ganser Subject: "Freedom of Information Act Request on CIA's 'Operation Gladio'"

Second Reply (Request Accepted, but Pending) by the Central Intelligence Agency 7 February 2001 (CIA) to Daniele Ganser re: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request on Language: English Operation Gladio Author: Kathryn I. Dyer, Information and Privacy Coordinator (CIA) Subject: "CIA's 'Operation Gladio'"

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