[BBC Timewatch] Gladio: The Ring Masters - Episode 1 (1992)

Part one of a 3-part series revealing the crucial role the CIA has played in manipulating the political affairs of post-war Europe through the Gladio. For the past 40 years, teams of secret agents have bombed and murdered scores of innocent civilians to keep control of Europe for their political masters. Developed from “stay behinds“--Nazis who remained in occupied territories at the end of World War 2 to resist the communist threat--this secret network changed from being defenders of state security into attackers of the established political order. It’s only since the Gladio’s existence was acknowledged in 1990 that the impact of its shadowy role in post-war Europe has emerged.