đ°ď¸ This episode was recorded in 2024.
You probably havenât heard of Operation Gladio, and thatâs by design because, well, itâs covert. Not just a covert operation, but one of the largest ever.
Possibly even the largest.
Basically, the CIA was so desperate to stop communism spreading that it teamed up with everyone from âright-wingâterrorists to the Vatican to the Italian Mafia.
Paul Williams has written a bunch of fascinating books, one of them being Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia.
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