Gladio (Denmark)

Country: Denmark
Details of Formation: The Scandinavian groups were set up by William Colby from 1951.
Details of Termination: One source suggests that the PGM was disbanded towards the end of 1990.
Purpose: Gladio was intended to serve as a fighting force prepared to start operations in case of a Warsaw Pact invasion, acting as a guerilla group and conducting sabotage activities.
Organisation: The PGM was coordinated by NATO and funded by the CIA. It was operated by the military services in cooperation with the CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service. In Denmark, the group was secretly part of the military secret service Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste (FE).
Weapons and Training: Members of the group trained with US Green Berets and the British Special Air Service (SAS). They were armed from underground arms caches.
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Other Information: The network of groups may have some semi-official status within the intelligence community. But this status is not recognized but instead hidden even from some domestic governments and prime ministers. The groups were ultimately answerable to NATO-CIA rather than domestic governments in event of attack by Warsaw Pact.
References: Information was taken from news sources listed in the PGMD.

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