CIA BBC1 Wednesdays at 9.30pm The CIA's role as the world's counter-revolutionary dirty tricks department is being dissected in the Wednesday evening BBC series 'CIA' It kicked off with the revelations in 1991 about the organisation known as 'Gladio'.
Gladio was a secret para• military network established throughout Western Europe after the second world war. To establish this secret network, the cia rened neavily on co-operation with the far right, including Italian fascists and German Nazis.
The role of Gladio was to prepare military sabotage ana destabilsation in the event of Communist parties comme to power, Paracakt ly of concern here was Italy, where Gladio had huge arms and logistics dumps in case the powerful Italian Communists made a bid for Gladio was in fact run by NATO, in collaboration with the ClA. CA involvement in Italy also included underRed Brigades In 1978 leading Christian Democrat Aldo Moro was as sassinated by the Brigades. How much did the CÍA know? It is now clear that there was alarm in Washington about Moro's role in trying to involve the in government.
CIA operations against the Soviet Union and eastern urope are little known. It se 1950s and 1960s the Us engaged in regular spi flights over the Soviet regularly air-lifted into eastern Europe and even the Soviet Union itself to func tion as spies. Many of these people ended up in the last Wednesday's episode dealt with CIA incoup in Indonesia in 1965 This was the biggest catastrophe for the international workers movement since Hitler came to power in 1933.
Up to two million people, including more than a million Communists, were murdered. The killing went on Jakarta handed over huge sinated to Suharto's military *The Soviet Union may have collapsed, but the CIA goes on. The work of defeatng revolution is still needed; and the CIA has turned to industrial spying against Japan and Europe.
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