Operation Gladio, Clockwork Orange, and P2

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 11:32:25 GMT

Interwoven with these bizarre affairs is a third intrigue that remains one of the

most fascinating Cold War mysteries - Operation 'Stay Behind,' or 'Gladio (sword)'

as it is known in Italy. According to still fragmentary evidence, CIA chief Allen Dulles, Britain's

Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), and a number of European leaders, created a

top secret organization from 1947-1952 called 'Stay Behind' as the nucleus of a

guerrilla army in the event of a Soviet invasion. Roberto Calvi was murdered in 1982.

His body was found hanging under London's Blackfriar's Bridge, an obvious reference to

the P2 Masonic Lodge, of which he was a senior member. Calvi's body was exhumed in 1998,

but the case is still unsolved, though a Mafia boss has been indicted. Licio Gelli remains

at large