Allied Clandestine Committee

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The Allied Clandestine Committee (ACC) was a department of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe , which was entrusted with the coordination of the secret stay-behind organizations in Western Europe. Other names were 'Allied Co-ordination Committee', 'Clandestine Planning Committee' and 'Coordination and Planning Committee'. The last verifiable meeting of the committee is said to have taken place on October 24, 1990 in Brussels.

The ACC was founded in 1954; According to the federal government, the BND (Federal Intelligence Service) joined in 1959 and was a member until its stay-behind organization was dissolved . According to a report by the Swiss investigating magistrate Pierre Cornu, the ACC included the USA , Great Britain and eight other NATO countries. The committee served to coordinate the European stay-behind organizations that would have been deployed alongside the regular army.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniele Ganser : NATO's Secret Armies. Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe. Cass, London 2005, ISBN 0-7146-5607-0 , p. 1.
  2. ↑ COSSIGA: 'CON GLADIO LA NATO NON C' ENTRA '- la Repubblica.it . In: Archivio - la Repubblica.it . ( repubblica.it [accessed July 11, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, Ulrich Stoll: The partisans of NATO: Stay-Behind-Organizations in Germany 1946-1991 . Ch. Links Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86153-840-0 ( google.de [accessed on July 11, 2018]).
  4. ^ Secret Army P-26: Switzerland was «User No. 11» . May 2, 2018 ( woz.ch [accessed July 11, 2018]).