Country: | Luxembourg |
Details of Formation: | NATO organized the creation of the group. |
Details of Termination: | The group is assumed to have been abandoned at the end of the Cold War, like other Gladio groups. |
Purpose: | The group was intended as a fighting force prepared to counter a possible Warsaw Pact invasion. In this case, it was meant to conduct guerilla warfare and sabotage activities. |
Organisation: | The PGM was coordinated by NATO and run by the military secret services in close cooperation with the CIA and British Secret Intelligence Service. |
Weapons and Training: | The group was trained by NATO and the CIA and trained together with US Green Berets and the British Special Air Service (SAS). It was armed from underground arms caches. |
Size: | -- |
Reason for Membership: | -- |
Treatment of Civilians: | -- |
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. Wikipedia. “Operation Gladio”. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation_Gladio&oldid=835600108 |