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Updat­ing mate­r­ial from pre­vi­ous archive pro­grams and 30-minute seg­ments, this pro­gram pro­vides sup­ple­men­tal infor­ma­tion on “Oper­a­tion Gladio,” the Ital­ian com­po­nent of a NATO oper­a­tion code-named “Stay Behind.” Osten­si­bly aimed at cre­at­ing anti-communist guer­rilla groups to resist a Soviet inva­sion of West­ern Europe or a peace­ful com­mu­nist takeover in West­ern Europe, the oper­a­tion gave rise to pro­grams of fas­cist ter­ror­ism (usu­ally blamed on the left). In addi­tion to updat­ing infor­ma­tion about the ongo­ing Ital­ian inves­ti­ga­tion of the “Years of Lead” (the Ital­ians’ nick­name for the Gladio pro­gram of bomb­ings, kid­nap­pings and assas­si­na­tions), the broad­cast dis­cusses a pos­si­ble rela­tion­ship between an Ital­ian com­po­nent of “Stay Behind,” code-named “Oper­a­tion Chaos” and an ille­gal CIA domes­tic oper­a­tion directed at the anti-Vietnam War move­ment dur­ing the 1960âs also named “Oper­a­tion Chaos.”