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NATO grapples with holdovers from communist era
AP ^ | 6/8/02 | George Gedda

Posted on 06/08/2002 10:29:50 AM PDT by Native American Female Vet

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:52 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON (AP) The potential for NATO's military secrets spilling into enemy hands has haunted the alliance off and on for decades.

There were jitters a generation ago when Italy, a charter member of NATO, almost came under the control of the country's pro-Soviet Communist Party.


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