Even if americans tried they would be behind soviet and eastern block.
However there were some quite cinteresting small events,like when Irqa-Iran war erupted,iranian students were often spies watching iraqis...
Can you elaborate on that? Sounds interesting.
Just wanted to address a point wrt to translation issues. Earlier in the thread I quoted Italian SID director Vito Miceli - arrested in 1974 for suspicion of subversive plotting, in connection with the aborted Borghese coup (Tora Tora) of Dec, 7 1970. I had him telling the Judge about Gladio, which was involved in the coup but left unnamed:
A Super SID on my orders? Of course! But I did not organise the coup d'état myself. It was the United States and NATO who asked me to do it!
That's from a Ganser PDF, I think the least accurate version. Makes it sound like the US and NATO ordered the coup. Ganser's actual book and most other sources have it thus:
A Super SID on my orders? Of course! But I have not organized it myself to make a coup d'etat. This was the United States and NATO who asked me to do it!
This makes more sense - the super SID, not the coup, is what's being talked about.
I recently bought a second book, "Stefano Delle Chiaie, Portrait of a Black Terrorist" by
Stuart Christie, an interesting character. A lot of the same info was available to Christie when his book was published in 1984, six years before the Gladio networks were revealed. It's almost like reading Ganser with NATO mentioned less. Anyway, I think Christie offers the best translation of Miceli:
A super-secret SID acting on orders from me? Fair enough, but I never set it up for the purpose of mounting a coup d’etat; I did so at the request of the Americans and NATO.
