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First modification: 04/27/2026 - 23:17

One of Europe's biggest state secrets, now turned into a scandal, continues to torment Italy: the existence of a secret army created by NATO after the Second World War to stop the rise of communism. Cells of this clandestine network operated during the Cold War in about ten European countries. In Italy, the operation adopted the code name Gladio. An investigation by our correspondents Natalia Mendoza, Tommaso Marro and Laura Roudaut for France 24.

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