Operation Gladio | Did a Top Secret CIA Program Lead to Terror Attacks in Europe?
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From the 1960s through the 1980s, Italy was a political no-man's land. The far right and the far left were in a constant state of intense battle, with murders, kidnappings, and bombings seemingly happening everywhere. In the throes of the Cold War, no one suspected that the constant upheaval could be an inside job. But was it Italy's own government with the help of the CIA causing this political turmoil? Or was it a coincidental bystander? Today, we're investigating Operation Gladio. This is Red Web.
Welcome back Task Force to another episode of Red Web, the podcast all about unsolved mysteries, true crime, and the unknown. I am your resident mystery enthusiast, Trevor Collins, and joining me hearing this case for the very first time, Alfredo Diaz.
It's going to be like a tinfoil hat that's really squeezing my head on this one. I'd hate to think of the number of things that have happened politically that we think has been done because of another country or opposing enemy or whatever the sort. Just all of the theatrics for our own government doing to us to get what they want us to do and what they want us to think. Oh, yeah. And so I hate I hate the thought of that, but I feel like that's kind of where this might be. Again, that's I'm going to start. I'll start thinking about our government or even just corporations or whatnot. It just spirals. See, the tinfoil is getting tighter and tighter.
Yeah. Is that your brain growing or is that the hat shrinking? I'll never tell. But, dude, that's the wild part when you. Oh, my God. There's so many just air quotes operations that have either been declassified and you're like, has no one else read this? This is most mildly to severely perturbing. There are so many false flag attacks or secret ops that are happening internationally. And you're totally right. It makes you wonder. What does that mean today? You know, we talked about that version of like through aircraft. Okay, you know, back in the day we talked about UFOs and maybe it was this stealth aircraft or this new program. And nowadays we probably have extremely advanced stealth aircraft and things we don't even know yet.
But then you think about the black ops that are happening under the surface, and it really makes you wonder. It could be a country. It could be a secret cabal, like this group of people that isn't even declassified. It could be a corporation, as you pointed out, which is like becoming realer by the day. Mm-hmm. It's wild. And this one, man, I gotta be honest, this was submitted, by the way, by Task Force member Gerder. So thank you so much for making our absolute heads spin, because this one is wild. Okay, this is a real iceberg, so I'm gonna say this. There are conspiracy theories that follow Operation Gladio, and they're complex with a mixture of truth that we know for a fact, and a mixture of the unknown.
The period in time we're about to dive into is wrought with turmoil and violence. And ultimately, the question we're going to be exploring here is, was this a secret international government operation? Was this responsible for many of the infamous massacres during this very same era? Or was it tangentially related? Basically, we're talking about an operation that actually existed. We're talking about their hands that were in many pies. But they also kind of do they become the scapegoat for other violence happening elsewhere? That's the question.
Hmm. Okay.
But it reminds me of things like MKUltra. When those things get declassified, how they're testing on innocent people or maybe less innocent people or what have you, trying to see, like, can we put acid into these people and see if they can read minds or gain powers, like... it really puts the government or whatever entity is behind the operation into a bad seat because then they're like okay now you're the forever boogeyman because i can't unknow that you were doing that to people that's wild it's a very good that's a very good point it's like how do you build that trust back you know um what other things have you not told us you told us because it had to be disclassified
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–34:05
2
What was Operation Gladio and when was it created?
34:05–46:15
3
Which countries hosted stay‑behind networks and how were agents recruited?
46:15–1:00:36
4
What weapons caches and secret stockpiles did Gladio hide across Italy?
1:00:36–1:06:32
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