On the mafia side, Operation Gladio was this stay-behind network is what they said. Basically, these were right-wing groups, many or some of which were kind of Nazi adjacent who hated communism. And so even though we fought against the Nazis in Mussolini and Hitler in World War II, there was a utility to preserving a certain homegrown domestic network that really hated communism to assist us on the ground in the war against communism. And what you saw was in Operation Gladio, this was a NATO-wide covert network, alliance of networks, a network of networks, that in basically every one of the NATO countries, there was a cell or a number of cluster cells that were set up in order to covertly influence the domestic politics of the country.

He is only talking about activity that took place in the days of Operation Gladio, which, despite what Alex might say, does not continue to the present day. It was a product of Cold War stupidity. And by the time anything related to it involved actual attacks, it was because of groups that had splintered from their original purpose and gone rogue.

If you exclude this document... That serious scholars and formal investigations have ruled to be a forgery than the evidence that the stay-behind networks that were part of Operation Gladio actually committed any false flag terrorism completely falls apart.