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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 Terrorism in Western Europe" 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 Cold War," 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 NATO Military Committee and Standing Group) to the US Joint Chiefs of Staff
Subject: Clandestine Intelligence
Source: Declassified Documents Reference System, Document no. 133, 1980.
31 December 1956 Language: English
Report by the Italian Military Secret Service (SIFAR) on Operation "Gladio"
Origin: SIFAR, Office "R", Section "SAD"
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)
1 June 1959 Language: Italian
US Field Manual 3031B 18
Author: General William C. Westmoreland (Chief of Staff of the US Army)
Source: Regine Igel, Andreotti: Politik zwischen Geheimdienst und Mafia (München: Herbig, 1997), Appendix, pp. 34558.
March 1970 Language: German Translation
William Colby, "Chapter Three: A Scandinavian Spy," in Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978), pp. 78107.
1978
Language: English
Memorandum from Director Signal Intelligence (Major General Horst Männchen) to Deputy Director of the East German Ministry of State Security
(Lieutenant General Gerhard Neiber)
Source: BStU Archives, Berlin
6 November 1984 Language: German
http://web.archive.org/web/20060822112614/http://www.isn.ethz.ch/php/collections/coll_gladio.htm
Report by Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti to the Stragi Commission of the Italian Senate
Subject: "SID parallelo Operazione Gladio
Source: JeanFrançois BrozzuGentile, L'affaire Gladio: Les réseaux secret américains au coeur du terrorisme en Europe (Paris: Albin Michel, 1994), Appendix, pp. 25359.
October 1990 Language: French Translation
Parlamentary Investigation into the Swiss Defense Ministry 1 2
Authors: Swiss Parlamentary Commission (Mr. Carlo Schmid, President of the Commission) Subject: "Bericht der parlamentarischen Untersuchungskommission zur besonderen Klärung von Vorkommnissen von grosser Tragweite im Eidgenössischen Militärdepartement," pp. 175277.
17 November 1990 Language: German
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by the National Security Archive
Author: Malcolm Byrne, National Security Archive Subject: "CIA's 'Operation Gladio'"
15 March 1991 Language: English
Parlamentary Investigation into the Existence of a Secret Internatioanl Intelligence Network in Belgium
Authors: Belgian Senate (Mr. Erdman and Mr. Hasquin)
Subject: Enquête parlementaire sur l'existence en Belgique d'un réseau de renseignements clandestin international
1 October 1991 Language: French / Flemish
Parlamentary Investigation into Terrorism in Italy
Author: Italian Senate (Giovanni Pellegrino, President of the Senate Commission) Subject: "Il terrorismo, le stragi ed il contesto storicopolitico"
1995
Language: Italian
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by Daniele Ganser
Author: Daniele Ganser
Subject: "Freedom of Information Act Request on CIA's 'Operation Gladio'"
14 December 2000 Language: English
First Reply (Request Declined) by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to Daniele Ganser re: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request on Operation Gladio
Author: Kathryn I. Dyer, Information and Privacy Coordinator (CIA) Subject: "CIA's 'Operation Gladio'"
28 December 2000 Language: English
Appeal to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) by Daniele Ganser re: FOIA Request on Operation Gladio
Author: Daniele Ganser
Subject: "Freedom of Information Act Request on CIA's 'Operation Gladio'"
23 January 2001 Language: English
Second Reply (Request Accepted, but Pending) by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to Daniele Ganser re: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request on Operation Gladio
Author: Kathryn I. Dyer, Information and Privacy Coordinator (CIA) Subject: "CIA's 'Operation Gladio'"
7 February 2001 Language: English
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