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Secret Warfare: Operation Gladio and NATO's Stay-Behind Armies

Edited by Daniele Ganser and Christian Nuenlist

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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 30-31B 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. 345-58.

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. 78-107.

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
Report by Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti to the Stragi Commission of the Italian Senate
Subject: "SID parallelo - Operazione Gladio
Source: Jean-François Brozzu-Gentile, L'affaire Gladio: Les réseaux secret américains au coeur du terrorisme en Europe (Paris: Albin Michel, 1994), Appendix, pp. 253-59.		 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. 175-277.

 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 storico-politico"

 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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