for forty years secret terrorist organizations many trained by western intelligence agencies have manipulated the political control of european sovereign states why a campaign of terror and murder originally part of a secret network of stay behind groups was intended to fight the soviet invasion of western europe and resulted announcement led to an immediate reaction in the capitals of europe the suspicion was that some parts of the value structures were involved in in rome rounded up all the german stay behind whose addresses he had put them in jail turned them over to the americans and they were disposed of the germans stay and therefore we were preparing to set up a base for a resistance movement which could exist during war the soviet union was viewed as our primary antagonist our enemy and i think that was true the stalinist period was a really vicious period in the soviet union and we thought in the late forty's and early fifty's that stalin might invade western europe it was the plan that i knew about that the people who had a logical reason for being in a given area where we thought it was essential to have stayed behind and who was activities could continue even after an attack by the warsaw pact he would be given additional training and he would know the location of some of the arms and communications caches and that he would be able as a result  training to recruit additional personnel to augment his his network and that it would include not only just communications but it would include the ready to use explosives the stay behind effort in my view was simply to be sure that if the worst came to worst if a communist party came into power that there would be some agents there who would to protocol and that amendment was absolutely necessary you didn't get in the door unless you signed and what was in that amendment was the greenman of the government not to prosecute right wing activists right wing activities hentai communist activists in their own countries it's not unlikely that some right wing groups were recruited and mages made to be stay behind because they would indeed have tipped us off if the war were going to began or they were so using right wingers if you use them not politically but for intelligence purposes is ok in nineteen forty eight i was a special agent was c i c that's among them was klaus barbie and close barbie was later on i discovered that he was wanted for murder by the french and that i reported this to my superiors and need told me to keep nice and quiet he still value books when he's no longer valuable we turned him over to the french i thought that i was going to get a promotion when i told him about barbie and they told me to keep quiet colonel three times a week and he brought us information about communists and whatever we wanted to hear he told us he was certainly a very strong nazi i sat in his office one day and to one particular spot which we and uncovered and dug it out and there were right front small arms grenades all nicely wrapped in ties moline and he said we  thousands of these all over the country and that sort of made me a little suspicious and i reported this and he said well we we know this they are working for us in case the cabin is come across the  a former general s s general powerhouse there was a frequent visitor than i was i was and they worked together handing glove about certain programs which we didn't know anything about now i wasn't even has to find out more about it somebody above me must have been running this network already at that time the better than those of us who also had i guess his fullest confidence who oversaw only people who really had any administrative experience and so they were i guess the nazi fight if you want to call it that cleaned up a little bit like today's nazi tomorrow or democrat like changing undershirts what we're doing is either with the government secretly or independently on our own looking for people who might perform this function in some recruiting other people to join there was documentary material when colby was station chief in stockholm that he had been in touch with former swedish volunteers in the nordic legions of the political organisation loosley affiliated with one of the political parties in the state of s in germany and it was deem newman politicians including many prominent social democrats who very thought might be the kind of people that the soviet army would look for in vying to organize a puppet government first to censor condor that in our of germany then we explained it to general matthew ridgway who was then the commander in chief of nato and finally and most importantly portugal spain and united states had very little to do with those we see or rather i would see documents having to do with that but if anything needed to be a secret information is told unaided in brussels through the c p c clandestine planning committee which meets periodically with the chairmanship being handed from one country secret service to the next the entire organization is handled outside of nato but there is a hundred forty men force special forces basically logistics training supply planning no active taking part because that would have destroyed the doctrine of deniability so it was always will help you know look he will teach you how to do something but you guys have to do it yourselves and  and how very carefully they handle it and how extremely secret it was i know when i was chief and in the low countries that the chief of service didn't want to discuss it in his office we'd walk in the park and talk about burials that were being put down communication equipment whether or not the latest equipment they had and so forth there were people inside the american government george kennan most notably who are arguing that the chance of the communist party going in the one nine hundred forty eight elections was so great that the united states should use military force to stop the elections not hold elections at all just united states said ok well we'll run the elections and will compete in the elections general marshall and james forrest tall and allen dulles all realised that in one nine hundred forty eight it was an absolutely critical moment and that in the united states didn't happen they had an intelligence service which was quite new and young it could collect from time arjun's it could have counterintelligence to do everything it could not know i was under the president of the belgian communist party we just believe he was the most powerful man body but he was a symbol for workers action he was arrested by the germans and liberated in forty five and at in the parliament hundred eighty a bomb exploded of along a railway station which killed eighty six people six years later an official report revealed the existence of an invisible government in italy run by the state secret