BBC Timewatch Gladio: The Puppeteers - Episode 2 (1992)

Part two 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 August 1980, a bomb exploded at the railway station in Bologna, Italy. The Red Brigades, a left-wing terrorist organisation, was immediately blamed for the 86 deaths and scores of injured civilians. But the Red Brigades--which operated much like the Baader Meinhof organisation in Germany and Action Directe in France--had long been penetrated by right-wing 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.