Masquerading as a rear guard against Soviet invaders NATOs covert forces warped into psychological and physical terrorism. These were the years of lead in which hundreds perished in a synthetic war in the streets of Europe. NATO commander General Lyman Lemnitzer ordered serial attacks on French president Charles de Gaulle. Sacked from the Pentagon by John F. Kennedy for rank insubordination then exiled to Europe Lemnitzer reaped revenge in Dallas. The secret armies forged bonds with organized crime and neofascists. NATObacked coups struck down governments in Greece and Turkey the island state of Cyprus was sundered amid bitter genocide. Urban guerrillas like the Red Brigades and BaaderMeinhof Gang were cunningly manipulated. Italy gained a deepstate government the ultrasecret P2 pseudoMasonic lodge founded by former Blackshirts. Swedish PM Olof Palme and Italian exPM Aldo Moro were assassinated. Pope John Paul II was shot by Turkish gangsters who had regular work as Gladio guns for hire. In 2009 a Gladio copycat outfit codenamed Ergenekon came to light in Turkey. The shootings in Norway in July 2011 and in Belgium France and Italy in 2012 all bore the classic stripe of Gladio falseflag operations.