executive power in the country". Aldo Giannuli [it], a historian who worked as a consultant to the parliamentary terrorism commission, wrote that he considered the Left Democrats' report as dictated primarily by domestic political considerations rather than historical ones: "Since they have been in power the Left Democrats have given us very little help in gaining access to security service archives," he said. "This is a falsely courageous report." Giannuli did decry the fact that many more leftist terrorists were prosecuted and convicted than rightist terrorists, though. Swiss academic Daniele Ganser wrote NATO's Secret Armies, a 2004 book that alleged direct NATO support for far-right terrorists in Italy as part of its "strategy of tension". Ganser also alleges that Operation Gladio, an effort to organize stay-behind guerrillas and resistance in the event of a communist takeover of Italy by the Eastern Bloc, continued into the 1970's and supplied the far-right neo-fascist movements with weapons. Ganser's conclusions have been disputed; most notably, Ganser heavily cites the document US Army Field Manual 30-31B, which the US state department claims is a 1976 Soviet hoax meant to discredit the US whilst others such as Ray S. Cline have claimed it is likely authentic and Licio Gelli who claimed it was in fact given to him by the CIA. In a 1992 BBC documentary on Gladio titled 'Operation GLADIO', the neo-fascist terrorist Vincenzo Vinciguerra reported that the stay-behind armies really did possess this strategy, stating that the state needed those terrorist attacks for the population to willingly turn to the state and ask for security. See also Agent provocateur Black propaganda Culture of fear Divide and rule False flag Fasanella-Cereghino. Colonia Italia. Giornali radio e tv: cosi' gli Inglesi ci controllano (Chiarelettere, 2015) pp 250–261. In Italian. Fear mongering Front organization Promoting adversaries Psychological warfare Salami slicing tactics Smear campaign References External links The Strategy of Tension on libcom.org Cold War terminology Years of Lead (Italy) Italian neo-fascism Terrorism in Italy Military strategy Politics of Italy Propaganda Due American influence in post–World War II Europe Neo-fascist terrorism Psychological warfare techniques Public opinion Revolutionary tactics Disinformation operations