Gladio 3.0
| Date | 2020 - Present |
|---|---|
| Perpetrators | CIA, SDS? |
| Description | Possible new version of Operation Gladio. |
Gladio 3.0 is a conjectured continuation of Operation Gladio.
Antecedents
The original Gladio was NATO's secret stay-behind army during the Cold War. The word itself means a double-edged sword, and just like the sword, the network had a dual-purpose. Firstly it was to form the resistance in case of a Soviet invasion. Secondly, it was to secure the Western European states against any left-wing parties getting into position of power, democratically elected or otherwise. Recruited mostly from fascists people with a hard right ideology, it secured the second objective in different countries with a mix of propaganda, assassinations, and terror operations, most often under false flag blaming the leftists.
Gladio 2.0 was a significant reboot of this operation. With an approximate start after the end of the Cold War in 1990, it used Muslim jihadists, with a core of mercenaries from the War in Afghanistan, and again for a dual purpose. The ensuing "war on terror" made a further militarization of Western societies possible, while at the same time creating the pretext for the takeover of the Greater Middle East.
Theoretical scenarios
Eastern Europe
In February 2022, Douglas London, a Senior Operations Officer in the CIA Clandestine Service, wrote an article in the CFR's Foreign Affairs magazine, where he drew a direct line to the U.S. support for the Afghan mujahideen in the 1980s: "Putin will face a long, bloody insurgency that could spread across multiple borders, perhaps even reaching into Belarus. Widening unrest could destabilize other countries in Russia’s orbit, such as Kazakhstan, and even spill into Russia itself. When conflicts begin, unpredictable and unimaginable outcomes can become all too real. Putin may not be prepared for the insurgency—or insurgencies—to come."[1] But, such a support would not be on the scale of tactics of Gladio 1 or 2, as they used members of multiple nationalities executing false flags that operated on a continental and worldwide scale, something currently not going on in Ukraine.
White uprising?
A possible theory could be the rise of the “right wing” white supremacist attacks through NATO countries in the 2010s (such as the 2011 Norway attacks or the Christchurch Mass Shooting), or the CCM coverage thereof. An even interesting angle is that most of the new political movements that have become anti-immigration and pro-isolationism have members of well known deep state recruitment networks, as researched by ISGP. A theory could be that these anti-immigration parties have been established by intelligence agencies to create a new strategy of tension, with pointing to immigrants and their race, cultures and statistical relation to increased crime rates and worsening economies in western countries. Focusing on immigrants as the main problem of all could be a tactic to scare the public when such attacks (possibly by spooks or a patsy) do occur. Reasonable critics of globalism and open borders policies could be silenced or jailed as in Gladio 1.[2].
