Topic: Gladio België
GLADIO BELGIE
"The Belgian government said it was investigating possible links between its own clandestine network (SDR-8) and a spate of particularly brutal raids on supermarkets around Brussels in the mid 1980's, in which 28 people died. Several policemen and well-known right-wingers were arrested after ballistic tests, but no one was brought to trial.
Bron: Fiona Leney & Wolfgang Achtner | Independent | 10/11/90
"The Belgian arm now existed in "cadre form" but still operated a radio communication system, he [Belgian defence Minister, Guy Coeme] said. "It was a secret service in the 1950s intended for resistance, radio networks, intelligence and - for some time a service for sabotage." The last of these functions was closed in the 1970s and there was no evidence that it had stored arms or ammunition. There have been allegations for more than a year of links between elements in the Belgian secret police and an obscure neo-nazi organisation, Westland New Post, some of whose alleged members have been charged with stealing secret Nato documents. The leader of the Post, Paul Latinus, was found dead - possibly from suicide - and a subsequent reorganisation of the Belgian secret service led to theresignation of its long term chief, Albert Raes."
Bron: John Palmer | Guardian | 10/11/90
"The network, Belgian authorities say, held its latest coordination committee meeting in Brussels during September."
Bron: John Palmer | Guardian | 10/11/90
"General Major Raymond van Calster, chief of the Belgian Army's Intelligence Service, whom some Belgian media had described as head of the Gladio network for Belgium, in an interview to the Belgian news agency Belga, denied on Saturday it existed in Belgium. He said he did not know of the alleged anti-communist cells."
Bron: Associated Press | 11/11/90
"Andre Moyen - a former member of the Belgian military security service and of the network - said Gladio was not just anti-Communist but was fighting subversion in general. "There were at least six hiding places for arms in Belgium until two months ago, and it had prepared a sabatage network" he said...[Former defence minister] de Donna said that the 17 Gladio members in Belgium went on survival training courses. He added there was also a network of "sleeping members"...He added that his predecessor had given Gladio 142 million francs (4.6 million dollars) to buy new radio equipment."
Bron: Reuter | 13/11/90
"'Shortly after I became minister of justice on January 16, 1984 I was informed about 'Stay Behind'', former Justice Minister Jean Gol said in an interview with the Socialist daily 'Le Peuple'. He said Belgium's 1984 budget contained 10 million francs (328,000 dollars) to modernise the network's sophisticated communications equipment, code-named 'Harpoon'.
Bron: P. Neuray | Associated Press | 14/11/90
"Gol said a total of 50 civilians were members of Stay Behind in 1984, most of them former World War 11 resistance agents."
Bron: Associated Press | 14/11/90
"Earlier this week, Belgium's Defence Minister, Guy Coeme, said the Belgian arm of the network, SDRA-8, set up with British weapons in 1949, was still active under the head of the Belgian military's intelligence service. Mr Coeme said Nato was aware of its existence, although it was never part of the alliance and in recent years was only a communications network..."
Bron: Independent | 16/11/90
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