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Parent organizationOperation 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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