Switzerland's secret Cold War army: missing files have disappeared

[Judi Lynn]

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Source: The Local

Switzerland’s secret Cold War army: missing files have disappeared

The Local
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30 April 2018
11:25 CEST+02:00

The Swiss defence department has given up the hunt for missing documents related to the country's top-secret, anti-communist paramilitary group, known as P26.

The files and dossiers containing information on possible links between Project 26 (P26) and other “stay at home” anti-communist organisations across Europe made national headlines in February after it emerged no copies could be located in the national archives.

Read also: Switzerland published redacted report on top secret Cold War army

Defence minister Guy Parmelin said at that time his ministry’s archives would be thoroughly searched in case copies were stored there.

Read more: https://www.thelocal.ch/20180430/switzerlands-secret-cold-wary-army-missing-files-have-disappeared

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Who knew Switzerland had a " top-secret, anti-communist paramilitary group"?

[brooklynite]

1. It's always a good idea to be wary of the cold...

[druidity33]

2. yeah but...

you'd think they'd be used to it in Switzerland.

[7962]

3. HA!

[TomVilmer]

4. Some more about these Stay-Behind groups

The first academic examination of Gladio was published in 2005 by Swiss historian Daniele Ganser. His book, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Gladio has been accused of trying to influence policies through the means of "false flag" operations: a 2000 Italian Parliamentary Commission report from the Olive Tree left-wing coalition concluded that the strategy of tension used by Gladio had been supported by the United States to "stop the PCI (Italian Communist Party), and to a certain degree also the PSI (Italian Socialist Party), from reaching executive power in the country".
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.689.3588&rep=rep1&type=pdf