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Parent organization | Operation Gladio |
A secret armed network of selected civilians set up in Britain after the war and was secretly modernised in the Thatcher years and maintained into the 1980s. |
In 1990, British Army general Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, the former NATO commander of Allied Forces Northern Europe, and General Sir Walter Walker, another former head of NATO's forces – confirmed that a secret armed network of selected civilians was set up in Britain after the war and was secretly modernised in the Thatcher years and maintained into the 1980s. [1][2]
Against Labour
The anti-fascist magazine Searchlight revealed that plans for secret armed cells to resist a more left-wing Labour government were drawn up by a group that included George Kennedy Young – the ex-deputy director of the British intelligence service MI6 and Airey Neave.[1]
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