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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>High ranking [[Wikipedia:Axis|Axis]] operatives were the first to implement [[Wikipedia:stay-behind|stay-behind]] programs later used by the [[Gladio]] [[Wikipedia:Gladio|(WP)]] program. [[Schutzstaffel]] (SS) [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:SS|(WP)]] troops and their Italian [[Fascism|Fascist]] [[Wikipedia:Fascist|(WP)]] equivalents, they remained in territories that their armies had retreated from when [[Wikipedia:Allies|Allied]] troops had overrun them, and stayed there while they were occupied.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fB6nViwJcM Operation Gladio <BBC Timewatch, 1992> State-Sponsored Terrorism in Europe] BBC Timewatch on YouTube. 9:00 on video</ref><br />
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The job of the OSS had ostensibly been the overthrow of the Nazi and Fascist regimes, but at the point of victory, it became increasingly about compromise. [[Wikipedia:William Casey|William Casey]], later to become of the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] [[Wikipedia:CIA|(WP)]], was among the first to describe the turn required of this new agenda. Not only were "former minor informants or stool pigeons against the party itself" to be recruited, but "Nazi Party members now held in the US as POW's who may be willing to work with us after reparation".<ref name=WS/><br />
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The X-2 program of counter-intelligence was at the forefront of recruiting the former Nazis and Fascists, until the OSS was absorbed into the CIA between September and October 1945.<ref name=WS>[http://books.google.com/books?id=94bFO8lU9rQC&pg=PA181 Nazi war crimes, US intelligence and selective prosecution at Nuremberg]; [[Michael Salter]] [[Wikipedia:Michael Salter|(WP)]], page 181, [[Wikipedia:Routledge|Routledge]], 2007</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
{{YouTube|7fB6nViwJcM|Operation Gladio}}<br />
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=94bFO8lU9rQC&pg=PA181 Nazi war crimes, US intelligence and selective prosecution at Nuremberg]; [[Michael Salter]] [[Wikipedia:Michael Salter|(WP)]], page 181, [[Wikipedia:Routledge|Routledge]], 2007<br />
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