Fact check
Is it true: Operation Gladio?
Confirmed85% confidence
Yes — this is confirmed.
The existence and structure of stay-behind networks is confirmed by PM Andreotti's 1990 parliamentary speech, Italian court findings, and national investigations. The specific "strategy of tension" false-flag claims have varying degrees of proof — strongest for Peteano (1972), weaker for larger attacks.
The claim
NATO and CIA-coordinated "stay-behind" paramilitary networks across Western Europe during the Cold War. In Italy, elements were implicated in false-flag terrorism (the "strategy of tension"). Confirme
Key evidence
Andreotti 1990 Parliament speech
Stay-behind networks weren't universal false-flag operators
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