--- aliases: - European continent category: Region created: 2026-10-15 summary: 'Europe as the vault records it: Cold War stay-behind networks and their NATO committees, the Belgian and Dutch child-abuse inquiries, Paperclip and BCCI, arms transfers to Iran, Israeli operations, and the continent''s extremist networks.' tags: - Place - Region - Europe - OperationGladio - StayBehind - NATO - Belgium - Dutroux - ArmsTrade - Mossad - Iran - ColdWar - Paperclip - BCCI - Rolodex - Extremism - EpsteinNetwork updated: 2026-10-15 --- Europe is the region in which the vault places the postwar stay-behind networks and the allied military command structure, the Belgian and Dutch inquiries into protected criminal networks, the recruitment of German scientists, the European base of [Bank of Credit and Commerce International](/organizations/bank-of-credit-and-commerce-international/), a set of arms transfers to [Iran](/places/iran/) and [Panama](/places/panama/), Israeli and Palestinian operations, the Berlin and Hungarian crises of the [Cold War](/concepts/cold-war/), and the continent's neo-Nazi and online violent networks. ### Stay-behind networks and the Gladio affair The stay-behind arrangements in Western Europe enter the vault through [Italy](/places/italy/). The parliamentary commission on terrorism in Italy, in its report on [Operation Gladio](/programs/operation-gladio/) approved in April 1992, records that the Italian military intelligence service (SIFAR) and its American counterpart concluded an agreement on November 26, 1956, to organize and implement a post-occupation clandestine network, commonly called stay-behind. The name Gladio first appeared at a meeting between the two services on October 18, 1956. The report says the Italian services first obtained support from British intelligence and then turned to the [Central Intelligence Agency](/organizations/central-intelligence-agency/), which appeared to have ample resources, including financial ones.[^1] The Italian network was set up after similar networks had already been organized in [France](/places/france/), the Netherlands and [Belgium](/places/belgium/), which were in turn extended to Denmark and Norway and to German and Austrian territory under Allied control.[^2] Italy joined the Clandestine Planning Committee, which operated within the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), as an associate member on May 19, 1959. A second body, the Allied Clandestine Committee, was created in 1958 on the initiative of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, with the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg as members. Italy entered it on April 15, 1964, shortly after [West Germany](/places/west-germany/).[^3] The European Parliament adopted a joint resolution on the affair on November 22, 1990 (Official Journal C 324, December 24, 1990, p. 201), replacing five earlier motions. Its recitals refer to "the existence for 40 years of a clandestine parallel intelligence and armed operations organization in several Member States of the Community" which "has escaped all democratic controls and has been run by the secret services of the states concerned in collaboration with NATO." They record the fear that the network "may have interfered illegally in the internal political affairs of Member States or may still do so," that "in certain Member States military secret services (or uncontrolled branches thereof) were involved in serious cases of terrorism and crime," and that the Gladio organizations had "independent arsenals and military resources which give them an unknown strike potential."[^4] The operative paragraphs condemn "the clandestine creation of manipulative and operational networks" and call for a full investigation into their nature, structure and aims, "the problem of terrorism in Europe and the possible collusion of the secret services of Member States or third countries." Paragraph 2 "protests vigorously at the assumption by certain US military personnel at SHAPE and in NATO of the right to encourage the establishment in Europe of a clandestine intelligence and operation network." Paragraph 3 calls on the member state governments "to dismantle all clandestine military and paramilitary networks." The resolution was forwarded to the Commission, the Council, the Secretary-General of [NATO](/organizations/nato/) and the member state governments.[^5] ### Belgium and the Brabant investigations A Senate commission of inquiry reported on October 1, 1991, that the word Gladio was unknown in Belgium until November 1990.[^6] The commission examined a clandestine international intelligence network with two Belgian units, the branch of State Security known as STC/Mob and the military intelligence unit SDRA VIII, which the report examines as the Belgian stay-behind component (SDRA8). The Belgian secretariat of the Clandestine Planning Committee was abolished on April 1, 1991, according to two witnesses.[^7] The commission took up the Brabant massacres directly. Its report states that, within the limits of the information it could obtain, no direct link could be established between SDRA VIII and STC/Mob on the one hand and the persons and organizations investigated in the 1980 and 1988 inquiries on the other. It records that a State Security officer, an SDRA officer, an SDRI officer who had been a court-appointed expert in several of the Brabant cases and a gendarme had all been in sustained contact with Major Bougerol of the gendarmerie in the same period, and that two of them belonged with him to the confraternity of the Hospitallers of Notre-Dame d'Aulne. It also records that contacts took place between the military Public Information Office, the Front de la Jeunesse and other extreme-right organizations.[^8] Asked whether the network had any connection with terrorist acts or serious banditry committed in Belgium over the previous ten years, the Senate commission answered that it had no indication of one, and added that the refusal of the heads of SDRA VIII and STC/Mob to give the expert magistrates the identities of their civilian agents "did not allow the verifications that would probably have eliminated all doubt."[^9] The Chamber of Representatives later opened its own inquiry into the Brabant killings, established in June 1996 with the Landuyt and Viseur report of October 14, 1997. Its first annex, an inventory of the publicly formulated grievances written for the commission by the law professors C. Fijnaut and R. Verstraeten of the Catholic University of Leuven, analyses the leads followed in the investigation and places the Westland New Post (WNP), an extreme-right group formed in 1981 by Paul Latinus from the dissolved Front de la Jeunesse, among the principal ones. The annex states that the WNP was credited by some with contacts in the army and the police, in particular the gendarmerie, and that its strength was put at between twenty and fifty members. It reproduces the 1983 view of a journalist, Haquin, that the Brabant killers were terrorists who possibly belonged to the WNP, and the 1995 statement of the investigator Barrez that the WNP "should have been the subject of a more thorough investigation long ago" and that it remained open whether State Security had gathered intelligence on the group or had used it.[^10] The same annex quotes the final conclusions of the magistrate-experts who assisted the Senate commission. They found "no element making it possible to believe that members of SDRA VIII or STC/Mob" played a role in the criminal activities that alarmed public opinion, and added three observations: that Major Bougerol continued his activities after the Public Information Office was wound up and with the agreement of military security, which they called a disturbing finding; that the silence kept on the identity of agents prevented the necessary verifications; and that the activities of extreme-right movements, "manipulated or not by foreign services," tolerated and even patronized by authorities of the military intelligence service, "deserve the attention of Parliament."[^11] The experts also cite the theft of NATO documents, possibly by WNP members, and the theft of ammunition at Florennes as demonstrating "the manipulation of Belgian citizens by foreign services."[^12] The annex records that the former gendarme Martial Lekeu, interviewed in 1990, named Francis Dossogne, [Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin](/people/baron-benoit-de-bonvoisin/) and the CEPIC as the people behind the killers, and that the Belgian press reported at one point that former gendarmes frequently named in the case might have been used by the American Drug Enforcement Administration and the CIA. The Chamber annex also records that the Senate commission itself noted that Paul Latinus had claimed several times around 1981 to work for American services.[^13] ### Dutroux, Nihoul and the X-Dossier A jury at Arlon convicted [Marc Dutroux](/people/marc-dutroux/) on June 17, 2004, of abducting six girls in 1995 and 1996 and of killing two of them and an accomplice, and convicted [Jean-Michel Nihoul](/people/jean-michel-nihoul/) of belonging to a gang that smuggled drugs and people into Belgium.[^14] The Chamber's inquiry into the police and judicial handling of the case reported on April 14, 1997 (Doc. 713/6), and its supplementary report of February 16, 1998 (Doc. 713/8) states in its general conclusions that there were indications that Dutroux and Nihoul, separately or together, had conducted polycriminal activity covering fraud, drug trafficking, abduction and rape of children followed by murder, trafficking in human beings and car trafficking, and that the networks they set up had enjoyed "at various levels an indirect protection engendered by individual or collective phenomena of the blurring of the norm or of corrupting behaviours." In the same paragraph the commission stated that, on the data available to it and without prejudice to later judicial inquiries, it had found no indication that the criminal circles in question had enjoyed, within the police, the magistracy, the administration or politics, protections capable of explaining by themselves the failures, delays and anomalies in the investigations. It added that its work had been hampered "by the will of some to conceal information, to deny the obvious, to camouflage realities."[^15] The commission's chapter on the Neufchâteau investigators, which belongs to the history of the [X-Dossier](/events/x-dossier/), records that it had been informed of a possible involvement of some protagonists in an unsolved murder in the Brussels region, that its investigator-counsellor Marique had contacted the Neufchâteau investigators working on the reopened inquiry, and that the Brussels examining magistrate [Jean-Claude Van Espen](/people/jean-claude-van-espen/), who had led the investigation in the 1980s, reacted to those contacts in a manner the commission described as violent.[^16] ### The Rolodex investigation in the Netherlands A Dutch government summary of the [Rolodex Investigation](/events/rolodex-investigation/), dated December 23, 2013, describes the inquiry as growing out of a 1997 investigation into a homosexual brothel with an attached escort agency in [Amsterdam](/places/amsterdam/), which was halted for tactical reasons and reopened in May 1998. A witness in a separate sex case began describing the brothel in July 1998 and stated that he had seen the names of two chief public prosecutors on the brothel owner's client list, a rolodex. The summary states that the rolodex was never found in searches of the suspects' homes and premises.[^17] A multidisciplinary team formed in August 1998 was given three tasks, one of them an inquiry into alleged sexual abuse of boys under sixteen by justice officials. The brothel owner and an associate were convicted by the Amsterdam district court on February 26, 1999, and sentenced to three years and fifteen months, with six months of the second sentence suspended. The College of Procurators-General concluded on March 24, 1999, that the allegations against the two prosecutors rested on the statements of one person whom the police regarded as unreliable. On September 21, 1999, it decided that no further criminal investigation of two other justice officials was warranted.[^18] The summary also states that the former secretary-general of the Ministry of Justice did not come up in the investigation in any way and that no information showed any involvement on his part.[^19] The Public Prosecution Service asked the court on June 30, 2017, to approve a request to refrain from prosecuting [Joris Demmink](/people/joris-demmink/).[^20] ### Italy: the P2 lodge The final report of the Italian parliamentary commission on the P2 lodge, chaired by Tina Anselmi and communicated to the presidents of both chambers on July 12, 1984, examines the seizure at Castiglion Fibocchi, carried out by the Guardia di Finanza on the order of the Milan magistrates Turone and Colombo during their inquiry into the Sindona affair. The commission recorded that [Licio Gelli](/people/licio-gelli/) was the Venerable Master of [Propaganda Due](/organizations/propaganda-due/), that the General Commander of the Guardia di Finanza, General Orazio Giannini, telephoned the colonel conducting the search to warn him that the list of names contained "all the top levels" and that the operation could be extremely prejudicial to the corps, and that Giannini could not explain how he knew the contents of the lists. The report discusses a list of 962 presumed affiliates, and notes that a report of the civilian intelligence service SISDE on the lodge excluded the hypothesis that the list had been falsified. It treats the affair of the president of [Banco Ambrosiano](/organizations/banco-ambrosiano/), [Roberto Calvi](/people/roberto-calvi/), as part of the system of relations that centred on the lodge and on Gelli.[^21] ### Arms transfers through European cities The 1988 report of the Senate subcommittee whose findings are known as the Kerry Report states that [Manuel Noriega](/people/manuel-noriega/) used his control of the Panamanian security apparatus to arrange end-user certificates, resold weapons to the highest bidder, and counted the [Sandinistas](/organizations/sandinistas/) among his earliest clients. The report says the weapons were bought in Europe by Michael Barari and Jorge Krupnick, who worked with Noriega, and were moved to [Costa Rica](/places/costa-rica/) for shipment.[^22] The [Hashemi brothers](/people/hashemi-brothers/) appear in the record of a 1988 federal appeal. The Second Circuit described an indictment of Samuel Evans, general counsel to [Adnan Khashoggi](/people/adnan-khashoggi/), and other defendants who allegedly planned to sell to Iran arms manufactured in or licensed from the United States, then owned by foreign countries, by deceiving the government about the buyer. The arms were destined for [Cyrus Hashemi](/people/cyrus-hashemi/), whom the court identified as a government agent posing as an Iranian buyer, and the undercover operation ended before any arms changed hands.[^23] [Ari Ben-Menashe](/people/ari-ben-menashe/) wrote in 1992 that [Liege](/places/liege/) served as a hand-over point for American matériel that [Israel](/places/israel/) bought from NATO stocks in Europe. According to his account, Israeli chartered cargo planes picked up the weapons there and returned to [Tel Aviv](/places/tel-aviv/) before carrying them to Iran.[^24] He also wrote that the Israeli Defense Ministry bureau [LAKAM](/organizations/lakam/) set up front companies in Europe and Latin America to buy high-technology equipment from the United States, and that Iran spent more than 82 billion dollars on equipment from the United States, Israel, Europe, South America and South Africa between March 1981 and the end of 1987.[^25][^26] He wrote as well that, as a duty officer in [Unit 8200](/organizations/unit-8200/), he intercepted in 1976 a telegram recording bribes of 3.5 million dollars paid by a [Lockheed](/organizations/lockheed-aircraft-company/) representative to Defense Minister [Shimon Peres](/people/shimon-peres/), deposited in one of Peres's brother's business accounts in Europe. The account is also recorded on the [Lockheed bribe scandal](/events/lockheed-bribe-scandal/) entry.[^27] [Seymour Hersh](/people/seymour-hersh/) wrote in *The Samson Option* that depleted uranium processed at [Machons (Dimona Facilities)](/places/machons-dimona-facilities/) was prepared for shipment to the Israel Defense Forces or for sale to arms manufacturers in Europe.[^28] A Central Intelligence Agency paper of October 19, 1973, on the Arab oil embargo that followed the [Yom Kippur War](/events/yom-kippur-war/), is cited in the Foreign Relations of the United States volume on the crisis. It judged that the embargo's effect on the United States "would be relatively small, and after the first month, the brunt of the cutback would fall on Europe and Japan."[^29] ### Israeli operations and Palestinian militant networks Ben-Menashe wrote that after the 1972 attack at the [Munich Olympics](/events/munich-olympic-massacre/), [Black September](/organizations/black-september/) fought a battle with [Mossad](/organizations/mossad/) agents in Europe.[^30] The Mossad campaign that followed, Operation Wrath of God, is described by Simon Reeve and George Jonas as a series of killings across Europe over several years, including the July 1973 killing in Lillehammer, Norway, of a Moroccan waiter mistaken for a Black September operations chief.[^31] Ben-Menashe also describes booking an [Air France](/organizations/air-france/) flight from Europe to Israel for Sayeed Mehdi Kashani, and he describes [Strategic Intelligence Services](/organizations/strategic-intelligence-services/), a firm that recruited mercenaries and was involved in an unsuccessful coup in the Seychelles in November 1981.[^32][^33] ### Operation Paperclip The final report of the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group to Congress records that by 1946 the Pentagon's Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) was pushing for a larger program of recruiting German and Austrian scientists and technicians, that the JIOA wanted 1,000 of them and the authority to grant them citizenship, and that President [Harry S. Truman](/people/harry-s-truman/) authorized the plan in September 1946 while insisting that only "nominal participants" in the Nazi party be admitted. The report states that between 1945 and 1955, 765 scientists, engineers and technicians were brought to the United States under Overcast, [Operation Paperclip](/programs/operation-paperclip/) and similar programs, and quotes the historian Clarence Lasby's estimate that up to 80 percent of the immigrant specialists had been Nazi Party members.[^34] ### The Bank of Credit and Commerce International in Luxembourg and London The 1992 Kerry and Brown report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee records that [Agha Hasan Abedi](/people/agha-hasan-abedi/) needed five things to create Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the first being a bank secrecy and confidentiality haven, "which he found first in Luxembourg, and then in Grand Caymans." The report states that BCCI was initially incorporated in Luxembourg alone, that a holding company was created two years later with the bank beneath it split into BCCI S.A., headquartered in Luxembourg, and BCCI Overseas, headquartered in [Grand Cayman](/places/grand-cayman/), and that Luxembourg was used mostly for BCCI's European and Middle East locations. Its account of the share register notes that several of the shareholders on BCCI's Luxembourg register were nominees acting for the bank.[^35] The Bank of England closed BCCI on July 5, 1991. The Bingham inquiry reported to the British government in October 1992, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, summarised it to the House of Commons on October 22, 1992: BCCI's first branch had opened in London in 1972, the Bank of England had been "slow to impose on BCCI an appropriate supervisory regime," and it had "continued for too long to rely on the Luxembourg authorities to play the leading role." Lamont told the House that the report showed "no duplicity or bad faith" and that the Bank "was party to no conspiracy or cover-up," made after he referred to wild allegations about the Bank's role in the affair.[^36] ### Epstein's Paris investigation The Paris prosecutor's office opened its own investigation into [Jeffrey Epstein](/people/jeffrey-epstein/) in August 2019, a month after his arrest in New York, citing his ownership of an apartment in an upmarket district of Paris and the accounts of women who said they were abused in France, and issued a call for witnesses in September 2019. The inquiry targeted "acts of sexual nature likely to have been committed by Jeffrey Epstein and possible accomplices." On December 19, 2020, French prosecutors announced that they had charged [Jean-Luc Brunel](/people/jean-luc-brunel/), the model-agency founder who had founded MC2 Model Management in the United States with Epstein, with rape of minors over fifteen and sexual harassment.[^37] ### The Congress for Cultural Freedom The Office of Policy Coordination of the CIA financed the planned Berlin meeting of the [Congress for Cultural Freedom](/organizations/congress-for-cultural-freedom/). A CIA document released by the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel records that [Frank Wisner](/people/frank-wisner/) approved a 50,000 dollar project on April 7, 1950, and asked that [Melvin Lasky](/people/melvin-j-lasky/) and James Burnham be kept out of sight, for fear that their presence would give critics ammunition against the Berlin conference. The congress met in Berlin in June 1950. The OPC bought tickets for the American delegation and passed most of the money through the National Committee for Free Europe and Jay Lovestone's Free Trade Union Conference.[^38] ### Information libraries and the McCarthy subcommittee G. David Schine, the only unpaid staff member of the Senate investigations subcommittee chaired by [Joseph McCarthy](/people/joseph-mccarthy/), made an April 1953 tour with [Roy Cohn](/people/roy-cohn/) of U.S. information libraries in Europe. The Senate's historical introduction to the subcommittee's executive sessions records the tour, and it records that the closed hearings then turned to the Voice of America and the overseas information libraries, where the subcommittee questioned the availability of books by suspected Communists.[^39][^40] ### Intelligence careers [Stephen Kappes](/people/stephen-kappes/) joined the CIA in January 1981 and, according to the agency's biography of him, had more than twelve years of overseas assignments in the Middle East, Asia and Europe.[^41] ### Cold War crises: Berlin and Budapest On August 13, 1961, the [German Democratic Republic](/places/east-germany/) introduced control measures that effectively prevented residents of the Soviet sector and East Berlin from entering West Berlin, according to the State Department editorial note on the Berlin Crisis.[^42] Legation telegrams from [Budapest](/places/budapest/) reported contact with the insurgents of the [Hungarian Revolution](/events/hungarian-revolution/) on October 25 and 26, 1956, and on October 27 reported that the wives of two leaders of the insurgent writers had asked the Legation for U.S. assistance in arranging a twelve-hour armistice.[^43] ### The Cutler travel record and the MJ-12 documents The Majestic 12 documents, which [Jaime Shandera](/people/jaime-shandera/) and [William L. Moore](/people/william-l-moore/) published, were examined by the National Archives. Its reference report records a memorandum dated July 20, 1954, from Robert Cutler that refers to his visits to installations in Europe and North Africa between July 3 and 15, 1954.[^44] ### SAVAK and Iranian students abroad A telegram from the Embassy in Tehran of November 1, 1976, printed in the State Department's volume on Iran, carries an editorial footnote citing an article in [The Washington Post](/organizations/washington-post/) of October 26, 1976, by [Jack Anderson](/people/jack-anderson/) and Les Whitten which claimed that [SAVAK](/organizations/savak/) agents "hound and harass Iranians in the United States, with the full knowledge and sometimes the assistance of the CIA." The same footnote records that other sources claimed SAVAK was sending assassination squads into Europe and the United States to eliminate Iranian dissidents, one of whom, Reza Baraheni, requested that the Attorney General investigate.[^45] ### Extremist and online violent networks The Europol terrorism situation and trend report for 2024 (published 2025) states that 449 individuals were arrested for terrorism-related offences across 20 member states, that the number of minors and young people involved in terrorist and violent extremist activity continued to grow, and that "in the right-wing milieu, the very young age of some of the suspects arrested for planning and preparing attacks poses great concerns." It describes "the growing engagement of right-wing extremists with online occultism and satanist communities" and online communities with ideological overlaps with jihadist terrorism, violent right-wing extremism and accelerationism, "but also satanism and occultism."[^46] In the United Kingdom, Schedule 2 to the Terrorism Act 2000 lists [National Action](/organizations/national-action/), added by an order made on December 15, 2016, together with the [Sonnenkrieg Division](/organizations/sonnenkrieg-division/), the Feuerkrieg Division, [Atomwaffen Division](/organizations/atomwaffen-division/) (including the National Socialist Order) and The Base. The schedule does not list [Combat 18](/organizations/combat-18/) or the [Order of Nine Angles](/organizations/order-of-nine-angles/).[^47] The German interior minister banned Combat 18 Deutschland under the association law on January 23, 2020, in raids that involved 210 police officers in six states.[^48] The Supreme Court of Finland ordered the [Nordic Resistance Movement](/organizations/nordic-resistance-movement/) and its registered association disbanded on September 22, 2020, the first court-ordered dissolution of an extreme-right group in Finland since 1977.[^49] Dutch media reported in October 2025 that a 25-year-old from Eindhoven had been arrested at the end of July 2025 and was held in the terrorism wing of the Vught Prison. Prosecutors say he led the online network [No Lives Matter](/organizations/no-lives-matter/), which is reportedly an offshoot of the international chat group 764, and that he encouraged others to extreme violence and self-harm and blackmailed young people with sexually explicit material. The prosecution treats the alleged offenses as crimes with a terrorist intent.[^50] His lawyer said that he admitted founding the group, that he left it in 2021 or 2022, and that not every young person who behaves violently online is a terrorist.[^51] [^1]: Commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta sul terrorismo in Italia e sulle cause della mancata individuazione dei responsabili delle stragi, *Relazione sull'inchiesta condotta sulle vicende connesse all'operazione Gladio*, Doc. XXIII n. 51, approved April 14 and 15, 1992, communicated April 22, 1992, chapter on the origins of the network (translated from the Italian). https://www.parlamento.it/service/PDF/PDFServer/BGT/909971.pdf [^2]: Same report, origins chapter, on the networks in France, the Netherlands and Belgium and their extension to Denmark, Norway and the German and Austrian territories under Allied control. [^3]: Same report, chapters on the Clandestine Planning Committee and the Allied Clandestine Committee, including the Italian entries of May 19, 1959 and April 15, 1964. [^4]: European Parliament, "Resolution on the Gladio affair," joint resolution replacing motions B3-2021, B3-2058, B3-2068, B3-2078 and B3-2087/90, November 22, 1990, *Official Journal of the European Communities* C 324, December 24, 1990, p. 201, recitals A to G; text as reproduced by Statewatch, "GLADIO - resolution of the European Parliament." https://www.statewatch.org/statewatch-database/gladio-resolution-of-the-european-parliament (archived copy at https://web.archive.org/web/2023/https://www.statewatch.org/statewatch-database/gladio-resolution-of-the-european-parliament) [^5]: Same resolution, operative paragraphs 1 to 8. [^6]: Belgian Senate, Doc. 1117-4 (1990-1991), report of Erdman and Hasquin on behalf of the parliamentary inquiry into a clandestine international intelligence network, October 1, 1991, section on the Gladio affair. https://senate.be/lexdocs/S0523/S05231297.pdf [^7]: Same report, sections on the STC/Mob and SDRA VIII units and on the Belgian secretariat of the Clandestine Planning Committee, citing two witnesses on its abolition on April 1, 1991. [^8]: Same report, conclusions on the Brabant investigations (point A, no direct link established with the persons and organizations of the 1980 and 1988 inquiries; point B, sustained contacts of Massart, Fagnart, Dery and Mayerus with Major Bougerol and the confraternity of the Hospitallers of Notre-Dame d'Aulne; point C, contacts between the Public Information Office, the Front de la Jeunesse and other extreme-right organizations). [^9]: Same report, fourth question: "La Commission ne dispose d'aucune indication permettant de conclure qu'il y a eu le moindre lien entre le réseau et les actes de terrorisme et de grand banditisme," followed by the passage on the refusal to identify civilian agents (translated from the French). [^10]: Belgian Chamber of Representatives, Doc. 573/8 (1995-1996), parliamentary inquiry into the organization and functioning of the police and judicial apparatus in light of the difficulties of the investigation into the "tueurs du Brabant," report of Renaat Landuyt and Jean-Jacques Viseur, October 14, 1997, Annex I (inventory of the publicly formulated grievances, by C. Fijnaut and R. Verstraeten), section III.3.3, "La piste en direction du WNP" (translated from the French). Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20070930043308/http://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0573/49K0573008.pdf [^11]: Same annex, section III.3.10, "Le réseau allié 'stay-behind' était-il impliqué ?", quoting the final report of the Senate commission (CEP4, 152-153). [^12]: Same annex, section III.3.10, on the theft of NATO documents and of ammunition at Florennes and the undated note on "secret diplomacy" appended to the Senate report. [^13]: Same annex, sections III.3.3 and III.3.10, including footnote 191 on press reports concerning the DEA and the CIA and the Senate commission's note on Paul Latinus's claims of working for American services around 1981. [^14]: "Notorious child rapist-murderer convicted," Associated Press via NBC News, June 17, 2004. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5233011 [^15]: Belgian Chamber of Representatives, Doc. 713/8-96/97, supplementary report of February 16, 1998, section 6, "Conclusions générales," pp. 148-149 (translated from the French); first report Doc. 713/6-96/97, April 14, 1997. https://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0713/49K0713008.pdf and https://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0713/49K0713006.pdf (archived copies at web.archive.org/web/2024id_/ followed by each address) [^16]: Same Doc. 713/8-96/97, chapter V, "Problèmes internes au sein de l'antenne de Neufchâteau," section 1, "Justification." [^17]: Summary of the background, course, results and decision-making of the Rolodex investigation, December 23, 2013, attachment to Dutch parliamentary documents (Eerste Kamer). https://eerstekamer.nl/9370000/1/j4nvgs5kjg27kof_j9vvkfvj6b325az/vjigib8p5szh [^18]: Same summary, sections on the team of August 1998, the convictions of February 26, 1999, and the decisions of the College of Procurators-General of March 24 and September 21, 1999. [^19]: Same summary, section on the former secretary-general of the Ministry of Security and Justice. [^20]: Openbaar Ministerie, press release, "OM vraagt bewilliging van verzoek af te zien van vervolging Demmink," June 30, 2017. https://www.om.nl/actueel/nieuws/2017/06/30/om-vraagt-bewilliging-van-verzoek-af-te-zien-van-vervolging-demmink [^21]: Camera dei Deputati and Senato della Repubblica, IX Legislatura, Doc. XXIII n. 2, *Relazione della Commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta sulla loggia massonica P2* (Anselmi), communicated July 12, 1984, introductory section on Calvi and Gelli and section I, "Il sequestro di Castiglion Fibocchi," and section II on the authenticity of the lists (translated from the Italian). https://www.parlamento.it/service/PDF/PDFServer/BGT/909679.pdf [^22]: U.S. Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations, *Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy*, S. Prt. 100-165, 100th Cong., 2d Sess. (December 1988), Panama chapter, on Noriega's earliest arms clients, the European purchases by Barari and Krupnick, and the shipment through Costa Rica. https://archive.org/details/Kerry-Report-Drugs-Contras [^23]: *United States v. Evans*, 844 F.2d 36 (2d Cir. 1988), opinion of Chief Judge Feinberg. https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/504381/united-states-v-evans/ [^24]: Ari Ben-Menashe, *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network* (Sheridan Square Press, 1992; TrineDay reprint, 2015), account of Liege. [^25]: Ben-Menashe, *Profits of War*, account of LAKAM and its front companies in Europe and Latin America. [^26]: Ben-Menashe, *Profits of War*, account of Iranian expenditure from March 1981 to the end of 1987. [^27]: Ben-Menashe, *Profits of War*, account of the 1976 telegram on Lockheed payments to Peres. [^28]: Seymour M. Hersh, *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy* (Random House, 1991), chapter 15, on Machon 10. [^29]: *Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976*, vol. 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