Operation Gladio

President of Turkey (1917–2015)

Turkish far-right ultranationalist political foundation

military operation

American writer

Italian judge and politician

2009 film by Sadullah Şentürk

Italian politician

Attack on the Labor Day celebration on the 1 May 1977 in Istanbul, 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.

French spy

French politician (1898–1981)

international anti-communist mercenary organization disguised as a pseudo-press agency (1966 - 1974)

special forces of the Turkish army

American film producer and director (1941–1997)

Senior CIA Officer

a document claiming to be a classified appendix to a U.S. Army Field Manual

Projekt-26, best known as P-26, was a stay-behind army in Switzerland charged with countering a possible invasion of the country. The existence of P-26 (along with P-27) as secret intelligence agencies dissimulated in the military intelligence agency (UNA) was revealed in November 1990 by the PUK EMD Parliamentary Commission headed by senator Carlo Schmid. The commission, whose initial aim was to investigate the alleged presence of secret files on citizens constituted in the Swiss Ministry of Defence, was created in March 1990 in the wake of the Fichenaffäre or Secret Files Scandal, during whi