CIA activities in Turkey

thumb|Seal of the U.S. Office of Defense Cooperation. The 13 stars represent the original 13 US states, and indicate a [[United States Department of Defense organization (see seal).]] Counter-Guerrilla () is a Turkish branch of Operation Gladio, a clandestine stay-behind anti-communist initiative backed by the United States as an expression of the Truman Doctrine. The founding goal of the operation was to erect a stay-behind guerrilla force to undermine a possible Soviet occupation. The goal was soon expanded to subverting communism in Turkey.