Stretching from China's doorstep in Kazakhstan's east to the shores of the Black Sea in the west, the Central Asia/Caucasus region encompasses a geostrategically vital area in China and Russia's back yard. It is the economic lifeline of the ‘New Silk Road’ and the increasingly important oil and gas deposits of the Caspian basin. The region also happens to have an ongoing problem with Islamic terrorism.

Now a growing number of commentators, a mounting pile of evidence and at least one important government whistleblower have drawn attention to a little-known clandestine NATO operation known as ‘Gladio’ that was exposed in the 1990s and is still in motion today.

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