BBC Timewatch - Operation Gladio (1992) x264 AC3 MVGroup

Underground Troops In Nato Countries - Guerilla For The State. Bombings, murders, coups, torture, false propaganda... Such was the darkest activity of the NATO-coordinated secret armies in Cold War Western Europe.
At the height of the Cold War there was effectively a front line in Europe. Winston Churchill once called it the Iron Curtain and said it ran from Szczecin on the Baltic Sea to Trieste on the Adriatic Sea. Both sides deployed military power along this line in the expectation of a major combat. The Western European powers created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) precisely to fight that expected war but the strength they could marshal remained limited.