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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military alliance founded on April 4, 1949, when twelve states signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Portugal and Italy.¹ Article 5 of the treaty provides that "an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all."¹ Greece joined in 1952 and West Germany in 1955.²

The alliance's headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, at Evere. The Belgian Senate's 1991 report places the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) at Casteau, and records that American commands were moved from Rocquencourt to Casteau after Charles de Gaulle withdrew France from the integrated military command.³ In 1967 the headquarters moved to Belgium after France withdrew from the integrated command and expelled NATO from French soil.³⁴

Cold War Role

NATO's primary Cold War function was deterring a Soviet conventional attack on Western Europe through the threat of American nuclear retaliation. The alliance maintained large conventional forces in Germany, particularly the U.S. Army's VII Corps and V Corps, alongside nuclear weapons pre-positioned at European bases.⁴ The INF Treaty of 1987 between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, which eliminated intermediate-range nuclear missiles, was a diplomatic milestone of the period.

The integrated command required peacetime exchange of intelligence among members. The UKUSA Agreement and signals intelligence protocols, liaison between human intelligence services, and counterintelligence coordination were the main channels, with the Central Intelligence Agency as the largest partner. NATO's nuclear planning also required classified targeting and deployment data to pass to allied governments.⁴

After the Cold War ended, NATO admitted former Warsaw Pact members over Russian objections. Article 5 was invoked for the first time after the September 11, 2001 attacks, and NATO deployed to Afghanistan.⁴

Stay-Behind Committees: the CPC and the ACC

The stay-behind networks were run through two multinational bodies that sat around the NATO command structure. The Italian parliamentary commission's 1992 report, Doc. XXIII n. 51, traces the first, the Clandestine Planning Committee (CPC). A British member of the service sent the head of the Italian service, SIFAR, a letter on April 7, 1952 informing him that the committee had been set up at the initiative of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe. It was formally constituted in August 1951 under the SHAPE Standing Group, with representatives of the French, British and American services, and the SACEUR had asked that the services of the other NATO countries be added. Italy first attended a CPC meeting as an associate member on May 19, 1959.⁵

The report describes the second body, the Allied Clandestine Committee (ACC), as created in 1958 on the initiative of the SACEUR and the CPC, with the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg as participants. Italy joined on April 15, 1964, shortly after West Germany.⁶

The Belgian Senate inquiry describes the Belgian branch of the CPC as the liaison between the Belgian services and the major NATO commands, above all SHAPE. It records that the Belgian CPC secretariat was a branch of SDRA, the military unit, and that no members of SDRA VIII or of the STC/Mob unit of the Sûreté took part in the CPC's work. The commission then asked why a body attached to SHAPE attended ACC meetings when the witnesses claimed the ACC had nothing to do with NATO's mission.⁷ Two witnesses told the commission that the Belgian CPC secretariat was abolished on April 1, 1991.⁸

The Italian report dates the bilateral work of the Italian and American services to 1953 and 1954, when land was acquired for the Capo Marargiu base near Alghero in Sardinia and construction began with CIA financing under Colonel Santini. The name Gladio is first recorded at an October 18, 1956 meeting between SIFAR (Colonel Giulio Fettarappa Sandri and Major Mario Accasto) and the CIA (Bob Porter and John Edwards). The accord on the post-occupation Italian-American clandestine network exists in a text restated on November 26, 1956; the Italian approval of the American draft was communicated on November 29, and the accord was fixed as in force from November 28, 1956, the date of the first document in the Gladio series.⁹ The same report says the stay-behind networks, already organized in France, the Netherlands and Belgium, were later extended to Denmark and Norway and to the German and Austrian territories under Allied control.¹⁰ Daniele Ganser's study lists stay-behind networks in at least fourteen European states, among them Italy, Belgium, Germany, France, Greece, Portugal, Turkey, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway and the non-member Austria.¹¹

Italy and the 1990 Disclosure

Italian investigators linked the Italian branch, Operation Gladio, to the bombings of the strategy of tension. Felice Casson, the magistrate who was working on the 1972 Peteano bombing, obtained documents on the network. In 1984 Vincenzo Vinciguerra, an Ordine Nuovo member who had become a state's witness, testified that stay-behind networks connected to NATO had organized attacks carried out by neofascist operatives, with military intelligence providing protection. The attacks in his account include the Piazza Fontana bombing.¹²

On October 24, 1990, Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti told the Chamber of Deputies that the structure "esiste nel quadro della NATO" (exists within the framework of NATO). He described it as a network providing, in case of occupation by enemy forces, "una rete di salvaguardia, sia informativa sia di reazione" (a network of safeguard, both informational and of reaction), all within the framework of the Alliance. He also told the Chamber that he had opened the archives completely to Casson.¹³ The Italian government's figures, transmitted to the parliamentary commission, put the membership at dissolution at 622 persons, 45 of them deceased, covering 1958 to 1990: 408 members of the cells and 214 of the rapid-deployment units. Recruitment had been started for 1,915 names, two thirds of which ended negatively, and a file was kept on each. The commission recorded that 127 of the 622 were enrolled before the required information on them had been gathered, and that 24 were proposed or confirmed although they had belonged to the Fascist party, the Italian Social Republic or the Decima MAS.¹⁴

A parliamentary question filed in Bonn on November 12, 1990 summarized the Italian statements. It said that Andreotti had confirmed the existence of a parallel NATO intelligence service under the name "Organisation Gladio" into the 1980s and possibly later, and that its basis was a secret addendum to the accession declarations of new NATO members. The question records that the former Greek prime minister Andreas Papandreou had confirmed the same basis for Greece and an activity under the codename "Haut des roten Berges." These are the questioners' statements, not findings.¹⁵

The European Parliament Resolution

On November 22, 1990 the European Parliament adopted a joint resolution on the Gladio affair, replacing five motions, published in the Official Journal C 324 of December 24, 1990 (page 201).¹⁶ Its recitals refer to "the existence for 40 years of a clandestine parallel intelligence and armed operations organization in several Member States of the Community," state that for over 40 years "this organization has escaped all democratic controls and has been run by the secret services of the states concerned in collaboration with NATO," and record that "in certain Member States military secret services (or uncontrolled branches thereof) were involved in serious cases of terrorism and crime as evidenced by, various judicial inquiries." The operative paragraphs condemn "the clandestine creation of manipulative and operational networks" and call for "a full investigation into the nature, structure, aims and all other aspects of these clandestine organizations," including "the possible collusion of the secret services of Member States or third countries"; protest "vigorously at the assumption by certain US military personnel at SHAPE and in NATO of the right to encourage the establishment in Europe of a clandestine intelligence and operation network"; call on the member state governments "to dismantle all clandestine military and paramilitary networks"; call on the judiciaries concerned to clarify any action taken "to destabilize the democratic structure of the Member States"; request national parliamentary committees of inquiry to draw up a complete list of such organizations; and instruct the President to forward the resolution to the Commission, the Council, the Secretary-General of NATO, the member state governments and the United States Government.¹⁶

Belgium and the SDRA8 Network

The Belgian network, SDRA8 (SDRA VIII), was the subject of a parliamentary inquiry into the existence in Belgium of an international clandestine intelligence network. The report by Erdman and Hasquin is dated October 1, 1991. It examines two units, the STC/Mob branch of the Sûreté de l'État and the SDRA VIII unit.¹⁷

The inquiry looked at the Brabant massacres, the robberies and killings attributed to the Brabant gang (the Bende van Nijvel) from early 1982 to November 1985, ending with the attack on a supermarket at Aalst. Twenty-eight people died and no one has been convicted; the limitation period, due to expire in 2015, was extended by ten years.¹⁸ Daniele Ganser dates the massacres 1983 to 1985.¹⁹

The Senate report records that the magistrates in the Brabant investigation had turned first to the structure of the military and civil intelligence services and then to the stay-behind networks, and had interviewed the acting administrator-general of the Sûreté, the chief of the military service and Colonel Bodart on the subject. It also records that the chiefs of SDRA VIII and STC/Mob and several instructors did not give the magistrates the identities of their agents, citing their undertaking not to reveal them.²⁰ Ganser wrote that the senators ordered Raes (director of the Sûreté from 1977 to 1990 and chief of STC/Mob) and Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Legrand (chief of SDRA8) to supply the names, or at least the birth dates, of the stay-behind agents; that both refused although the Justice Minister and the Defense Minister had ordered them to cooperate; and that in the end the senators could not identify the men behind the Brabant terror. He quotes Legrand: "there remain very good reasons not to reveal the names of the clandestines." He wrote also that Legrand answered in Le Soir with a coded notice addressed to "Dear friends in Operation Stay Behind, section SDRA8," ending "Adolphe is looking well!"¹⁹

Daniele Ganser recounted the documentary maker Allan Francovich's thesis that segments of the Belgian stay-behind may have cooperated with the far-right Westland New Post; the statement of the former gendarme Martial Lekeu that members of the gendarmerie and the army were involved in the killings and that he was told to keep quiet when he reported it in December 1983; and the account of the Westland New Post member Michel Libert that from 1982 to 1985 his group, "with cover from the Gendarmerie, with cover from Security," surveyed supermarkets on orders whose purpose he was not told.¹¹ The Senate, in its own finding, wrote that on the elements available to it no direct link could be established between SDRA VIII and STC/Mob on one side and the persons and organizations investigated in 1980 and 1988 on the other, and that no known instructor or recruiter of either unit was, in any capacity, involved in the judicial investigation into the Brabant killings. The same section records that a Sûreté official, a military intelligence officer, a court-appointed expert in several Brabant cases and a gendarmerie officer all had sustained relations in the same period with Major Bougerol, that two of them belonged with him to a confraternity (the hospitaliers of Notre-Dame d'Aulne), and that a member of the B.S.R. who had attended at least one far-right meeting acted as an investigating agent in files on the Brabant killings.²⁰

U.S. Commanders and Envoys

Lyman Lemnitzer served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until September 30, 1962. His move to Europe was announced in July 1962: at the news conference of July 23, 1962 John F. Kennedy answered a question on his "swift appointment" as Commander in Chief of U.S. Forces in Europe on the retirement of General Lauris Norstad, said Norstad's resignation would take effect October 1, and said Lemnitzer "could have retired in October and there would have been a vacancy as Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff."²¹ The Joint Staff's history records that Norstad announced his retirement in July 1962 and that his departure, delayed by the Cuban missile crisis, took place on January 2, 1963.²² He became Commander in Chief of the U.S. European Command on November 1, 1962 and Supreme Allied Commander Europe on January 1, 1963, a post he held until his retirement on July 1, 1969.²³

Alexander M. Haig, Jr. was announced in September 1974 as the successor to General Andrew J. Goodpaster as SACEUR, and he held the post until 1979.²⁴ The Defense Planning Committee of the North Atlantic Council appointed Isaac C. Kidd Jr. Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic in March 1975, to succeed Admiral Ralph W. Cousins.²⁵ David K. E. Bruce was appointed U.S. Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council on October 17, 1974 and left the post on February 12, 1976.²⁶

Vernon Walters wrote that after the war he served as aide to W. Averell Harriman at Marshall Plan headquarters in Paris, then helped establish NATO's Supreme Headquarters in 1951, and that during the 1950s he was aide and interpreter to Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower at international summits.²⁷

Dozier and the Red Brigades

James L. Dozier was kidnapped from his apartment in Verona, Italy, on December 17, 1981 by the Red Brigades. A press clipping in the CIA reading room describes him as "the highest-ranking U.S. officer in NATO's southern Europe command."²⁸ A memorandum of March 23, 1982 from the Grill Flame project manager records a debriefing of Dozier on February 9, 1982, at which he was asked to review remote-viewing drawings made during the search and to comment on places and events of his captivity.²⁹ A January 1982 Army message reported visions by several private individuals in Kent, Washington, that concerned Dozier. The visions described a settlement called the "place of the shepherds" and a hallway behind metal bars, and the message records that the visions linked the settlement to Dozier's whereabouts.³⁰

Narut and the 1975 Oslo Conference

Commander Narut, a Navy clinical psychologist stationed in Naples, was reported by The Sunday Times on July 6, 1975 to have disclosed at a NATO conference in Oslo a Navy program to select and condition covert assassins. The Pentagon denied the report the same day. Narut partially withdrew his most specific claim within days, and Peter Watson, the paper's science correspondent who wrote the story, did not withdraw it.³¹

The Assessment

Retired Army sergeant major Robert O. Dean has said in speeches and online postings that while stationed at SHAPE in the mid-1960s he read a classified document titled "The Assessment: An Evaluation of a Possible Threat to NATO Forces in Europe," which studied UFOs and the potential threat they posed to NATO.³² In a 1995 interview Dean said he held a "cosmic" clearance at SHAPE and found the document in the war-room vault in 1964. He described its origin as NATO detections of unidentified objects crossing from the Soviet Union over the Warsaw Pact countries and central Europe and vanishing over the Norwegian Sea, and a three-year military investigation in which aircraft sent to track "large metallic, circular objects" were outflown. He called the resulting report "mind-boggling" and said it found that "there was no military threat involved, because these dudes have enough technology that if they had wanted to take us over, they apparently had the ability to do it."³³

The SHAPE Historical Office has said it has been asked many times for a copy and has analyzed a photograph said to show the cover. It concluded that the cover page is a forgery and that SHAPE "prepared no report on UFOs during the 1960s." The office states that it takes no position on whether UFOs exist.³²

Corporate and Political Links

In June 2026 WIRED reported on a leaked registration list for the 2026 retreat of the Dialog society, which Peter Thiel co-founded. The registration records list General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe and head of U.S. European Command.³⁴

The Liege pickup point for American matériel bought from NATO stocks in Europe appears in the account of Ari Ben-Menashe, who described Israeli chartered cargo flights collecting the matériel for transfer to Iran.³⁵ Barbara Honegger alleged in her 1989 book on the October Surprise that a heroin-smuggling network in Italy was used to launder NATO arms stocks for diversion to Iran, with the involvement of Italian intelligence officers linked to the P2 lodge.³⁶

Footnotes

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1. North Atlantic Treaty, Washington, April 4, 1949, Article 5 and the signatory list. NATO official text. https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/official_texts_17120.htm ↩︎

2. Deutscher Bundestag, Drucksache 11/8452, Kleine Anfrage, November 12, 1990, which gives the accession years of Italy (1949), Greece (1952) and the Federal Republic of Germany (1955). https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/11/084/1108452.pdf ↩︎

3. Belgian Senate, Doc. 1117-4 (1990-1991), "Enquête parlementaire sur l'existence en Belgique d'un réseau de renseignements clandestin international," rapport fait au nom de la commission par MM. Erdman et Hasquin, October 1, 1991. Passages on the NATO headquarters at Evere, SHAPE at Casteau, and the transfer of commands from Rocquencourt to Casteau after France's withdrawal from the integrated commands. https://senate.be/lexdocs/S0523/S05231297.pdf ↩︎

4. "North Atlantic Treaty Organization," Encyclopaedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/North-Atlantic-Treaty-Organization ↩︎

5. Commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta sul terrorismo in Italia e sulle cause della mancata individuazione dei responsabili delle stragi, Relazione sull'inchiesta condotta sulle vicende connesse all'operazione Gladio, Doc. XXIII n. 51, approved April 1992, chapter "La storia di Gladio," on the CPC, the letter of April 7, 1952 from Peter Frazier, and Italy's associate membership from May 19, 1959. Translated from the Italian. https://www.parlamento.it/service/PDF/PDFServer/BGT/909971.pdf ↩︎

6. Same report, chapter "La storia di Gladio," on the Allied Clandestine Committee created in 1958 and Italy's entry on April 15, 1964. Translated from the Italian. https://www.parlamento.it/service/PDF/PDFServer/BGT/909971.pdf ↩︎

7. Belgian Senate, Doc. 1117-4 (1990-1991), section on the Belgian branch of the Clandestine Planning Committee, report page 23. https://senate.be/lexdocs/S0523/S05231297.pdf ↩︎

8. Belgian Senate, Doc. 1117-4 (1990-1991), same section, on the abolition of the Belgian CPC secretariat on April 1, 1991, as stated by two witnesses. https://senate.be/lexdocs/S0523/S05231297.pdf ↩︎

9. Same report of 1992, chapter "La storia di Gladio," on the land purchases and CIA-financed works at Capo Marargiu (1953 and 1954), the meeting of October 18, 1956, the restatement text of November 26, 1956 (annex 2), the approval of November 29 and the entry into force from November 28, 1956 (document "Gladio/1"). Translated from the Italian. https://www.parlamento.it/service/PDF/PDFServer/BGT/909971.pdf ↩︎

10. Same report of 1992, chapter on the origins of the stay-behind networks, on the networks in France, the Netherlands and Belgium, their extension to Denmark and Norway, and the German and Austrian territories under Allied control. Translated from the Italian. https://www.parlamento.it/service/PDF/PDFServer/BGT/909971.pdf ↩︎

11. Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe (Frank Cass, 2005), pp. 139-144. https://archive.org/details/natos-secret-armies-operation-gladio-and-terrorism-in-western-europe-contemporar ↩︎

12. Vincenzo Vinciguerra, testimony to the Italian investigating magistrates, 1984, as cited for this passage. ↩︎

13. Camera dei deputati, X Legislatura, Discussioni, seduta del 24 ottobre 1990 (no. 537), statement of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti. Translated from the Italian. https://legislature.camera.it/_dati/leg10/lavori/stenografici/sed0537/sed0537.pdf ↩︎

14. Same report of 1992, note 9 to the chapter on the organization of Gladio, on the 622 members at dissolution, the 408 and 214 split, the 1,915 names and the 127 and 24 cases. Translated from the Italian. https://www.parlamento.it/service/PDF/PDFServer/BGT/909971.pdf ↩︎

15. Deutscher Bundestag, Drucksache 11/8452, Kleine Anfrage of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen group, November 12, 1990. Translated from the German. https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/11/084/1108452.pdf ↩︎

16. European Parliament, Resolution on the Gladio affair, November 22, 1990, replacing motions B3-2021, B3-2058, B3-2068, B3-2078 and B3-2087/90, Official Journal of the European Communities C 324, December 24, 1990, p. 201 (EUR-Lex CELEX 51990IP2021). English text of recitals A to G and paragraphs 1 to 8 as reproduced at https://www.voltairenet.org/article219618.html ↩︎

17. Belgian Senate, Doc. 1117-4 (1990-1991), title page and the table of contents chapters on the STC/Mob and SDRA VIII units. https://senate.be/lexdocs/S0523/S05231297.pdf ↩︎

18. Joery Matthys, "Ghosts from a (terrorist?) past: the Brabant Killers in Belgium," Leiden Security and Global Affairs Blog, November 13, 2017, on the series beginning in early 1982, ending with the Aalst supermarket robbery of November 1985, and the ten-year extension of the limitation period. https://www.leidensecurityandglobalaffairs.nl/articles/ghosts-from-a-terrorist-past-the-brabant-killers-in-belgium ↩︎

19. Daniele Ganser, "Terrorism in Western Europe: An Approach to NATO's Secret Stay-Behind Armies," The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Winter/Spring 2005, pp. 84-85 (Belgium section), citing the Belgian Senate inquiry. https://scholarship.shu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1122&context=diplo_ir ↩︎

20. Belgian Senate, Doc. 1117-4 (1990-1991), section on the Brabant investigations and the STC/Mob and SDRA VIII units. The French text reads "aucun lien direct n'a pu être établi entre S.D.R.A. VIII et S.T.C./Mob. d'une part et les personnes et organisations qui firent l'objet des enquêtes de 1980 et 1988" and "aucun instructeur ou recruteur connu du S.T.C./Mob. ou du S.D.R.A. VIII n'est impliqué." https://senate.be/lexdocs/S0523/S05231297.pdf ↩︎

21. John F. Kennedy, news conference no. 39, July 23, 1962, answer on General Lemnitzer and General Norstad. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-press-conferences/news-conference-39 ↩︎

22. Joint Chiefs of Staff Historical Division, The Joint Chiefs of Staff and National Policy, vol. VIII, chapter on NATO, on Norstad's July 1962 announcement and the January 2, 1963 departure. https://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/History/Policy/Policy_V008.pdf ↩︎

23. U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, biography of General Lyman Louis Lemnitzer, archived copy (Wayback Machine, 2024). https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://www.jcs.mil/About/The-Joint-Staff/Chairman/General-Lyman-Louis-Lemnitzer ↩︎

24. Office of the White House Press Secretary, announcement of the appointment of General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. as Supreme Allied Commander Europe, replacing General Andrew J. Goodpaster. Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. https://fordlibrarymuseum.gov/sites/default/files/pdf_documents/library/document/0248/whpr19740916-010.pdf ↩︎

25. Office of the White House Press Secretary, March 19, 1975, notice of the appointment of Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, Jr. as Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, to succeed Admiral Ralph W. Cousins. Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. https://fordlibrarymuseum.gov/sites/default/files/pdf_documents/library/document/0248/whpr19750319-007.pdf ↩︎

26. U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, biography of David K. E. Bruce, archived copy (Wayback Machine, 2024). https://web.archive.org/web/2024/https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/bruce-david-kirkpatrick-este ↩︎

27. Vernon A. Walters, Silent Missions (Doubleday, 1978). ↩︎

28. CIA-RDP96-00788R000100240026-8, press clipping on the Red Brigades kidnapping of Brigadier General James L. Dozier, describing him as "the highest-ranking U.S. officer in NATO's southern Europe command." https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00788r000100240026-8 ↩︎

29. CIA-RDP96-00788R000100250001-4, memorandum of March 23, 1982 from Robert J. Jachim, GRILL FLAME project manager, on the debriefing of BG Dozier at the Command SCIF, Fort Meade, on February 9, 1982. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00788r000100250001-4 ↩︎

30. CIA-RDP96-00788R000100250011-3, Army Intelligence and Security Command message of January 25, 1982 reporting visions concerning BG Dozier, including "THE PLACE OF THE SHEPHERDS." https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00788r000100250011-3 ↩︎

31. Peter Watson, "The Strange Tale of Commander Narut," The Sunday Times (London), July 6, 1975. ↩︎

32. Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Historical Office, statement on the alleged 1960s SHAPE "Assessment" of UFOs, archived copy (Wayback Machine, 2023). It names Robert O. Dean and quotes the title of the document he described. https://web.archive.org/web/2023/https://shape.nato.int/page2148213115 ↩︎

33. "Bob Dean is flying high," Tucson Weekly, June 29, 1995, quoting Dean. https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/06-29-95/cover.htm ↩︎

34. Dell Cameron and Yulia Almazova, "Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society," WIRED, June 16, 2026. https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/ ↩︎

35. Ari Ben-Menashe, Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network (Sheridan Square Press, 1992). ↩︎

36. Barbara Honegger, October Surprise (1989). ↩︎