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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

CLASSIC: Operation Gladio: Invisible Armies and The Secret War

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

4.211K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

At the close of WWII, US allies created secret, "stay-behind" armies, designed to protect the population in the event of a Communist invasion. So why are they linked with terrorist groups? What were these secret armies actually doing, and - perhaps more i

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So one thing that has always fascinated us as a group I think is the idea of secret armies.

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This was a big belief during the Cold War, the concept of something like a fifth column, so-called.

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We were digging in for years to find evidence of actual secret armies.

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And in this classic episode, spoiler alert, we find one and it's incredibly disturbing.

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