I'm at work right now, but wanted to start a thread government sponsored terrorism. I don't have my sources as I'm at work but this is somthing we have not yet discussed here. I'll update it when I get home. Feel free anyone to put your own examples of government sponsored terrorism.


Gladio

"Felice Casson, an Italian judge who during his investigations into right-wing terrorism had first discovered the secret Gladio army and had forced Andreotti to take a stand, found that the secret army had linked up with right-wing terrorists in order to confront “emergency situations”. The terrorists, supplied by the secret army, carried out bomb attacks in public places, blamed them on the Italian left, and were thereafter protected from prosecution by the military secret service. "You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game,” right-wing terrorist Vincezo Vinciguerra explained the so-called “strategy of tension” to Casson.

“The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security. This is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres and the bombings which remain unpunished, because the state cannot convict itself or declare itself responsible for what happened."

In Italy, on 3 August 1990, then-prime minister Giulio Andreotti confirmed the existence of a secret army code-named “Gladio” - the Latin word for “sword” - within the state. His testimony before the Senate subcommittee

Ever since the discovery of the secret NATO armies in 1990, research into stay-behind armies has progressed only very slowly, due to very limited access to primary documents and the refusal of both NATO and the CIA to comment. On 5 November 1990, a NATO spokesman told an inquisitive press: "NATO has never contemplated guerrilla war or clandestine operations”.

The next day, NATO officials admitted that the previous day’s denial had been false, adding that the alliance would not comment on matters of military secrecy.

Read all about it:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/GAN412A.html

also

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/FLO502B.html

It's no secret that had the Cold War gone hot, at least in the case of the SAS, special ops teams would've waited for the initial Soviet assault forces to pass over their heads, then reported back to HQ on Soviet military movements and possibly conducted offensive operations against Soviet forces (or local infrastructure) in their area of operations.