The Origins of Operation Gladio in Italy

In Italy alone between 1969 and 1987, 356 people were killed and more than a thousand injured in the most protracted and traumatic terrorist onslaught in Western Europe outside of Britain and Spain. This was the so-called strategy of tension, largely carried out by armed fascist groups in collusion with and protected by the secret state. So that doesn't mean that everything comes to the state, obviously, is biased. No, but state sources are not free and independent either. There's going to be an interest also to hide some things because they're going to reveal very dirty connections that shouldn't become come out.