Operation Gladio: how the West recruited Nazis into a secret anti-communist terror army

Belgian neo-Nazi group the Front de la Jeunesse had a special unit secretly staffed by gendarmes. (BBC)

I was a guest this week on Radio Free Amanda, an excellent socialist podcast. We discussed Operation Gladio, NATO’s secret Nazi armies during the Cold War.

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1. “NATO's secret Nazi armies”

2. “How the CIA and Italy's secret state manipulated the right and infiltrated the left”

3. “How the CIA oversaw Belgium's secret Nazi army”