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Belgium: Gladio enquiries (1)

01 January 1991

Belgium: Gladio enquiries
artdoc August=1992

Mr Fred Erdman, Social Democrat, the secretary of the Senat
(parliamentary) inquiry into the Gladio network in Belgium has
called for a further commission to look at links between the
security services and private organisations. The Gladio stay-
behind network was created in 1948 to act as a resistance network
in the event of a Soviet invasion in NATO countries.
The first inquiry report on its activities in Belgium revealed
a connection between the military security service, SGR, and the
extreme right network the PIO (Public Information Office). The
PIO gathered information about possible subversive activities of
political opponents including the peace movement. Cecile Harnie,
Green MP and active member of the commission of inquiry, called
for a further investigation of the secret role of NATO in the
networks of secret services discovered. Witnesses, she said, hid
behind NATO-secrecy in refusing to answer questions about the
links between the international secretariat of the Gladio
networks, the Allied Coordination Committee (ACC), the
Coordination and Planning Committee (CPC, created in 1948) and
Supreme Allied Headquarters Europe (SHAPE).

Statewatch vol 2 no 4, July/August 1992