BBC Timewatch Gladio: The Puppeteers Episode 2 (1992)

Part two of a 3part series revealing the crucial role the CIA has played in manipulating the political affairs of postwar Europe through the Gladio. In August 1980, a bomb exploded at the railway station in Bologna, Italy. The Red Brigades, a leftwing terrorist organisation, was immediately blamed for the 86 deaths and scores of injured civilians. But the Red Brigadeswhich operated much like the Baader Meinhof organisation in Germany and Action Directe in Francehad long been penetrated by rightwing agents working for the State. These agents had only one aim: to instigate such a series of atrocities that terrified civilians into pleading for greater state security, even if that meant a loss of personal freedom.