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<text id=90TT3066>
<title>
Nov. 19, 1990: World Notes:Italy
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Nov. 19, 1990 The Untouchables
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 77
World Notes
ITALY
A Double-Edged Sword
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<body>
<p> The story seems straight from the pages of a political
thriller. During the early days of the cold war, the Italian
government, assisted by the CIA, sets up a clandestine
paramilitary network designed to resist a communist invasion.
Code name: Operation Gladio, as in a gladiator's double-edged
sword. Skip ahead to last July, when a Venetian magistrate named
Felice Casson, investigating a 1970s car bombing in Peteano,
uncovers the network while searching through files at SISMI, the
Italian intelligence service. When Prime Minister Giulio
Andreotti admits Gladio did exist, a national scandal ensues.
Most disturbing are suspicions that renegade Gladio agents may
have been involved in right-wing terrorism in the 1960s and
'70s.
</p>
<p> Last week, during an address to Parliament, Andreotti
insisted Gladio was completely justified by the climate of the
times and chided the opposition for "insinuating suspicions." He
insisted that although Gladio had a military structure, "it had
never been involved in terrorist activities." Meanwhile, Casson
has summoned President Francesco Cossiga to testify on the
Peteano attack.
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