Allied Clandestine Committee

Allied Clandestine Committee
Abbreviation	ACC
Formation	1 Jan 1957
Founder	Lauris Norstad
Parent organization	NATO
Type	• secret society • “terrorist”
Together with the Clandestine Planning Committee, the ACC coordinates the stay behind groups collectively referred to as "Operation Gladio".

The Allied Clandestine Committee, together with the Clandestine Planning Committee, is a secret command center to coordinate the stay behind groups of Operation Gladio. It is unknown whether the same group plays a similar function with respect to Operation Gladio/B.

Origins

It was set up in France on the orders of Lauris Norstad, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

Denial

In the late 1990s, Daniele Ganser submitted a request to NATO Archives for any material relating to the ACC and they denied having any relevant material.

Activities

This group provided for significant US leverage over the secret stay-behind networks in Western Europe as the SACEUR is a US General who although based in NATO’s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Belgium, nevertheless reports to the Pentagon. The ACC’s duties included elaborating on the directives for the network, developing its clandestine capability, and organizing bases in Britain and the United States. In wartime, it was to plan stay-behind operations in conjunction with SHAPE. According to former CIA director William Colby, it was "a major program."

When NATO establishes new European headquarters in Brussels the ACC under the code name SDRA 11 is hidden within the Belgian military secret service SGR who has its headquarters next to NATO.

The last publicly acknowledged meeting of the ACC occurred in Brussels in 1990.

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