Operation Gladio by the dissolution of the French stay-behind paramilitary movements. Historian Daniele Ganser claims that: Next to the CPC, a second secret army command center, labeled Allied Clandestine Committee (ACC), was set up in 1957 on the orders of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (SACEUR). This military structure provided for significant US leverage over the secret stay-behind networks in Western Europe as the SACEUR, throughout NATO's history, has traditionally been a US General who reports to the Pentagon in Washington and is based in NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium. The ACC's duties included elaborating on
Allied Powers (horse) Powers only managed to finish seventh, probably due to the fast going which was unfavourable for him. With a rating of 111, Allied Powers began his five-year-old campaign in 2010 with the Group 3 John Porter Stakes at Newbury Racecourse. He finished twelfth in a race won by Harbinger, who would go on to win the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes by 11 lengths. In May, Allied Powers headed to Paris and won the Prix D'Hedouville, a Group 3 race at Longchamp Racecourse, under French champion jockey Ioritz Mendizabal. A month later Allied Powers returned to France to