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In a stay-behind operation, a country places secret operatives or organisations in its own territory, for use in the event that the territory is overrun by an enemy. If this occurs, the operatives would then form the basis of a resistance movement, or would act as spies from behind enemy lines. A resistance movement is a group or collection of individual groups dedicated to fighting an Invader in an occupied country or the government of a sovereign nation Small-scale operations covered only small areas, but larger stay-behind operations envisaged entire countries being conquered.

Significant stay-behind operations existed during World War II, in which both the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany put in place such structures (the Auxiliary Units and the Werwolf organisation, respectively). World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the common English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers The Auxiliary Units (or Auxunits) were specially trained highly secret units created with the aim of resisting the expected invasion of the British Isles by Nazi Werwolf ( German for " Werewolf " the spelling "Wehrwolf" is incorrect was a World War II Nazi plan for a During the Cold War, the NATO and CIA sponsored stay-behind forces in many European countries, intending that they would be activated in the event of that country being taken over by the Warsaw Pact or if the Communist party came to power in a democratic election. Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the The North Atlantic Treaty near as long as it used to be several months ago It has been actively summarized and split into sub-articles and there is a dynamic talk page discussion of all The Warsaw Pact (see Nomenclature) was an organization of Communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. Many hidden weapons caches were found, in Italy, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and other countries, at disposition of these "secret armies". Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Austria (Österreich ( officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands The most famous of these NATO operations was Operation Gladio, acknowledged by Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti on October 24, 1990. Gladio ( Italian, from Latin Gladius, meaning Sword) is a code name denoting the clandestine NATO " Stay-behind Giulio Andreotti (born 14 January 1919 in Rome) is an Italian Politician of the centrist Christian Democratic party Events 69 - Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus the commander of the Danube armies loyal to Vespasian, defeat Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar)

In some cases, stay-behind operations have deviated from their stated purpose, and have been active against elements in their country which they deem to be subversive — rather than fighting an outright invasion, they claimed to be fighting a quieter subversion of their country. Some have been involved in domestic terrorism campaigns, such as Gladio's participation in Italy's strategy of tension and support for far-right military coups in Greece (the "Regime of the Colonels") and in Turkey. State terrorism refers to acts of Terrorism conducted by governments A strategy of tension (strategia della tensione is an alleged way used by world powers to divide manipulate and control Public opinion using Fear, Propaganda Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία Regime of the Colonels redirects here For the Polish regime of colonels see Colonels' group. Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches In this last country, General Kenan Evren, who staged the 1980 military coup, was a member of the "Counter-Guerrilla", Turkish stay-behind armies. Ahmet Kenan Evren (born July 17, 1918) was the seventh President of Turkey; a post he assumed by leading the 1980 military coup. The September 12 1980 Turkish coup d'état, headed by Chief of the General Staff General Kenan Evren, was the third Coup d'etat in the history of In some countries, there has been a considerable degree of overlap between official stay-behind organisations and other, non-official groups — for example, the French Organisation armée secrète included many members of its country's stay-behind organisation. The Organisation de l'armée secrète ( OAS &mdash or Organisation armée secrète, lit

List of stay-behind plans

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