[BBC Timewatch] Gladio: The Foot Soldiers - Episode 3 (1992)

Part three of a 3-part series revealing the crucial role the CIA has played in manipulating the political affairs of post-war Europe through the Gladio. In 1978 in Rome, the Italian prime minister, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped and his bodyguard was killed. The bullets found at the scene were of a type issued only to Italian Special Forces and, according to one secret agent’s confession, the secret services had been warned in advance of the kidnapping. Timewatch examines the truth behind this and the subsequent assassination of Moro--who was in favour of including the Italian Communist party in a national government. This episode also reconstructs a series of unexplained and bloody killings a few years earlier in Belgium, when masked gunmen murdered people shopping in supermarkets. Some of the Gladio members responsible now talk about these seemingly pointless murders.