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Operation Gladio Summary

Operation Gladio was never meant to be public knowledge.

For decades, it existed as a hidden insurance policy buried beneath the surface of Western Europe—a secret “stay-behind” network designed to activate only if Soviet forces invaded and occupied NATO territory. It was built quietly, maintained patiently, and protected by layers of deniability.

Weapons caches were concealed. Radios were hidden. Training was conducted away from public view. Names were compartmentalised. Plans were sealed. And ordinary citizens lived their lives never knowing that, in the event of the worst-case scenario, a shadow army had already been prepared to keep resistance alive.

But the Cold War did not end the way anyone expected. The invasion never came. And the world eventually discovered that the network had been there all along.

In Operation Gladio: The Plan, the People, and the Fallout, Miles Dunsford takes listeners deep into one of the most controversial and misunderstood covert operations of the 20th century.

Written in a clear, gripping style for general listeners, this book unpacks the real story behind Gladio—why it was created, how it was organised, who was involved, how secrecy was enforced, and why the revelations sparked political shockwaves that still ripple through modern debates about intelligence, democracy, and hidden power.

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Operation Gladio

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The Plan, the People, and the Fallout

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Operation Ajax

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The Coup, the Cover Story, and the Consequences

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Operation PBSUCCESS

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The Coup, the Cover Story, and the Consequences

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The Tunnel, the Tapes, and the Betrayal (Zentara Cold War Operations Revealed)

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Sabotage, Betrayal, and the Road to the Missile Crisis (Zentara Cold War Operations Revealed)

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Operation Chrome Dome: The Doomsday Flights That Kept America on Edge

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Able Archer 83: The NATO Exercise That Nearly Triggered Nuclear War

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REFORGER

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The Secret Logistics Machine Behind NATO’s Cold War Deterrent

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Operation Ivy Bells

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America’s Deep-Ocean Wiretap Against the Soviet Navy

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Operation Cyclone: Inside the CIA’s Secret War in Afghanistan (Zentara Cold War Operations Revealed)

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Operation Rolling Thunder

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Inside America’s Air War Over Vietnam (Zentara Cold War Operations Revealed)

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Operation Condor

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The Story of the Disappeared and the Regimes That Coordinated It

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Operation Linebacker

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A Definitive Account of America’s Final Air Offensive in Vietnam

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Operation Frequent Wind

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The Final Evacuation of Saigon and the End of the Vietnam War

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The Untold Story of Greenland in the Cold War

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Inside the CIA’s Secret War in Afghanistan

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