What on earth are you talking about. Operation gladio was a cold-war program to demonize and destroy leftist / communist formations, just as the US has consistently done against the DPRK and against countless other anti-imperialist projects in the 20th century.
The CIA did so many dirty tricks against the DPRK during the special period, and committed countless atrocities against them.
How are you people twisting your brains around to think that support for targets of the US empire is somehow a US program??? This isn't complicated.