The phrase "fifth column" comes from a statement that Nationalist General Emilio Mola made to a journalist as his troops approached Madrid in 1936, which was then controlled by the Spanish Republicans. He would take Madrid, he told the journalist, because he had four columns of troops marching on Madrid and a fifth column of supporters inside the city.
(And, incidentally, Mola did not take Madrid in 1936.)
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