Operation Gladio

Overview
Operation Gladio was named after the Roman Gadius Sword. It part of a series of nation wide European operations first coordinated by the Clandestine Committee of the Western Union (CCWU), founded in 1948. After the creation of NATO in 1949, the CCWU was integrated into the Clandestine Planning Committee (CPC), founded in 1951 and overseen by Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE). It was to set up 'stay behind' resistance armys in the region after the Soviets had conquered it if the Cold War had ever gon 'hot' and become a actual 'shooting' war

Belgium
A illegal and covert right-wing death-squad connected with the far-right Belgian group Westland New Post.

Denmark
A resistance army of the former Danish  resistance people – former prisoners of Vestre Fængsel, Frøslevlejren, Neuengamme who wanted parole and also the Danish Brigade in Shleizwig-Holstein and a minor Danish based unit of the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR).

France
People who hated General DeGall, Algerian indipendence, fascists, the predicesor to   and the members of the Organisation armée secrète   (OAS).



Germany
A unit formed by former Nazi SS members -- Staff Sgt. Heinrich Hoffman and Lt. Col. Hans Rues for  genuine  resistance  reasons  and one by the  unreconstructed Nazi  Lt. Col. Walter Kopp.

Greece
Illegal armed militias supping the military coup d'état on April 21,  and thus " of 1967 to 1974.

Italy
It supported fascist groups like Ordine Nuovoa and National Vanguard against communist armed groups like the Red Brigades in the bloody de-facto civil war that was Italy's Years of Lead.

Netherlands
A large cover arms cache near the Dutch village Velp and  in a park near  . They for use by agents run by a Dutch goverment in exile.

Norway
A bunch of disorganised crooks by what I can gather.

Portugal
A coubter occupation terrorist organisation trained in including bombings, silent assassinations, subversion techniques, clandestine communication and infiltration and colonial warfare.

Turkey
The political enemies of the then Turkish prime minister   <span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Bülent Ecevit. He was the  target of several assassination plots. Rumours persist it still holds out there.

United Kingdom
Re-create the Auxiliary Units were attached to GHQ Home Forces, and concealed within the Home Guard. At first this was covert with a few hundred people, but if war was near would be overtly increased by formal conscription and/or new volunteer forces.

Austria
It had been coertly set up by far-right winger Herr Soucek and Herr Rössner as a genuine attempt to fight any occupying forces.

Cyprus
Illigal Greek and Turkish death squads who wanted to annex it to there home nations by force.

Finland
By what I can gather it would have see heavy bombing of Soviet units around Oulu and/or Turku prior to it's invasion by the Sweden by both sea and air with the aim of setting up a safe zone for a pro-Western or strictly neutral Finnish rump state. Swedish backed resistance fighters, who were first organised in 1944, would operate in the south, south west and west of the country. The USA planned for CIA thugs to topple the Finnish government and use right wing resistance fighters to take on the Soviets.

Spain
Among the Gladio operative Stefano Delle Chiaie and several members of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (Triple A), thus demonstrating connections between Gladio and the South American "Dirty War". They killed Spanish at Carlists Montejurra Incident in the 1950. It was General Franco's de facto covert deaths quads.

Sweden
Covert right wing thugs run by the CIA.

Switzerland
A extra-judicial covert fascist secret police force and paramilitaries were set up. By 1990, Swiss army intelligence which had built up files on nearly 8,000 "suspect persons" including "leftists", "bill stickers", "Jehovah's witnesses", people with "abnormal tendencies" and anti-nuclear demonstrators; all of whom had failed to meet the then Swiss national ideal- a bunch of isolationist, money worshipping, environmental inclined racists.

Soviet insurgents in the Mediterranean and West Germany
Most of these groups, including those listed above, claimed to be communist, revolutionary, anti-corporate and pro-3rd World, but they were a fraud since they were relay hate filled, mobsters, terrorist and anti-Semitic in nature. All these E. German/Soviet/Polish/Czechoslovak pawns did was bring terror to the streets of several nations as bombed public places, they stuck up banks, killed prominent people, commuted kidnappings, promote Greece at Turkey's expense in Cyprus and hunt down Jews in the name of Arab\German fascism. Karl Marx would have throw up if he knew they were calling them selves 'communist'.
 * 1) October 22 Group
 * 2) Red Army Faction
 * 3) Prima Linea
 * 4) Red Brigades (in Italy)
 * 5) Revolutionary Organization 17 November
 * 6) and others....

Whistle-blowers
They included-
 * 1) Swiss historian Daniele Ganser.
 * 2) Judge Liberato Mancuso.
 * 3) Former Belgian secret agent André Moyen.
 * 4) General Gerardo Serravalle, who commanded the Italian Gladio.
 * 5) The Washington Post,
 * 6) The Boston Globe,
 * 7) Former Turkish prime minister Bülent Ecevit,
 * 8) Swiss Major Hans von Dach.
 * 9) Former Dutch prime Minister Ruud Lubbers

In the parallel universe
Bavaria has the same units it had as in reality, but they fly the ATL Bavaria's flag, not the OTL West Germany's flag.

Also see

 * Germany's Fulda Gap
 * Finnish pseudo-neutrality
 * Swedish pseudo-neutrality
 * Seven days to the River Rhine (1979)
 * French nuclear plans and the Force de Dissuasion
 * The Swiss National Redoubt (1880-2010)
 * North German Plain
 * Operation Northern Norway
 * The southern Danube route
 * Soviet/NATO invasion of Finland
 * The week of war policy
 * Operation Square Leg (1980) and Exercise Hard Rock (1982)
 * Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie
 * Greece, Turkey and southern Italy

Links

 * http://www.php.isn.ethz.ch/collections/colltopic.cfm?v52=84994&coguid=FC32A76C-ACD5-A8B7-90AD-68DB91618803&lng=en&v45=82317&id=15301
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_22_Group
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prima_Linea
 * http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6314559.stm
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prima_Linea
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Brigades
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordine_Nuovo
 * http://baor-locations.org/denmark.aspx.html
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vanguard_%28Italy%29
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Organization_17_November