For entertainment go look up Operation Gladio if you haven't heard of it. The details are .... interesting.
Indeed 
It appears to an extension of the thinking that existed in 44-45 when some insisted that the Axis powers should be forced into a swift peace and we would use its armed forces, intelligence and leaders to keep heading east into the Soviet Union.
Yep. While I like the idea of establishing potential resistance forces in case of Soviet invasion it is scary that as late as the 80's they were responsible for domestic terrorism in Western Europe.
