Fact check
Is it true: Operation Gladio: NATO stay-behind networks in Europe (1947-1990)?
Yes — this is confirmed.
Confirmed by Italian PM Giulio Andreotti's August 1990 parliamentary disclosure and subsequent national investigations in Belgium, Switzerland, France, and Germany. NATO stay-behind networks were CIA and MI6 funded, pre-positioned with arms caches, and operated across Western Europe from the late 1940s through 1990. European Parliament passed a condemnatory resolution in November 1990.
The claim
Operation Gladio was a NATO-coordinated programme of clandestine "stay-behind" networks established across Western Europe from the late 1940s, designed to conduct sabotage and resistance operations in
Key evidence
Andreotti parliamentary disclosure: August 1990
NATO declined to confirm operational details — standard response
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