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-	'''''U.S. Army Field Manual 30-31B''''' was a [[Cold War]]-era forgery by Soviet intelligence services.	+
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-	It is an alleged classified appendix to a [[U.S. Army Field Manuals|U.S. Army Field Manual]] that describes top secret [[counter insurgency]] tactics. In particular, it identifies a "[[strategy of tension]]" involving violent attacks which are then blamed on radical left-wing groups in order to convince allied governments of the need for counter-action. It has been called the '''Westmoreland Field Manual''' because it is signed with the alleged signature of General [[William Westmoreland]].	+
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-	U.S. government and academic sources describe the document as a forgery. The document first appeared in [[Turkey]] in the 1970s, before being circulated to other countries. It was also used at the end of the 1970s to implicate the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] in the [[Red Brigades]]' [[Kidnapping of Aldo Moro|kidnapping and assassination]] of former [[Italy|Italian]] [[President of the Council of ministers of Italy|prime minister]] [[Aldo Moro]].	+
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-	U.S. official sources, including the [[United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence|U.S. House Intelligence Committee]], and the [[U.S. State Department]], state that it is a forgery.	+
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-	The discovery in the early-1990s of the [[Operation Gladio]] (NATO [[stay-behind]] networks) in [[Europe]] led to renewed debate as to whether or not the manual was fraudulent. According to [[Daniele Ganser]] who popularized the history of Gladio stay-behind networks, [[Licio Gelli]], the Italian leader of the anti-Communist [[Propaganda Due|P2]] [[Freemasonry|freemason]] [[Masonic Lodge|lodge]] told the BBC's Allan Francovich, "The CIA gave it to me".	+
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