NP but relevant?

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

"As the Cold War ended, following juridical investigations into mysterious

acts of terrorism in Italy, Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti was 
forced

to confirm in August 1990 that a secret army existed in Italy and other 
countries

across Western Europe that were part of the North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization

(NATO). Coordinated by the unorthodox warfare section of NATO, the secret

army had been set up by the US secret service Central Intelligence 
Agency (CIA)

and the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6 or SIS) after the end 
of the

Second World War to fight Communism in Western Europe. The clandestine

network, which after the revelations of the Italian Prime Minister was 
researched

by judges, parliamentarians, academics and investigative journalists across

Europe, is now understood to have been code-named 'Gladio' (the sword) 
in Italy,

while in other countries the network operated under different names 
including

'Absalon' in Denmark, 'ROC' in Norway and 'SDRA8' in Belgium. In each 
country

the military secret service operated the anti-Communist army within the 
state in close

collaboration with the CIA or the MI6 unknown to parliaments and 
populations.

In each country, leading members of the executive, including Prime 
Ministers,

Presidents, Interior Ministers and Defence Ministers, were involved in the

conspiracy, while the 'Allied Clandestine Committee' (ACC), sometimes also

euphemistically called the 'Allied Co-ordination Committee' and the 
'Clandestine

Planning Committee' (CPC), less conspicuously at times also called 
'Coordination

and Planning Committee' of NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe

(SHAPE), coordinated the networks on the international level. The last 
confirmed

secret meeting of ACC with representatives of European secret services took

place on October 24, 1990 in Brussels. As the details of the operation 
emerged, the

press concluded that the 'story seems straight from the pages of a 
political thriller'.

The secret armies were equipped by the CIA and the MI6 with machine guns,

explosives, munitions and high-tech communication equipment hidden in

arms caches in forests, meadows and underground bunkers across Western 
Europe.

Leading officers of the secret network trained together with the US 
Green Berets

Special Forces in the United States of America and the British SAS 
Special Forces

in England."


http://www.whale.to/b/ganser.pdf

Ganser's study could have been written better, but his book is
indispensable when it comes to the issue.

False flag terrorism operations associated with the NATO's
stay-behind network include the Bologna bombing and the
Oktoberfest bomb blast in Munich, both from 1980.

Is there solid proof? Of course not, the Western governments
refuse to comment on details related to the issue and deny
historians like Ganser access to relevant source material.

Actually it's rather doubtful whether the stay-behind-armies were,
as the governments say, really dissolved in 1990.

They could be useful for coming events, no?

Lots of citizens in Western Europe still don't know about this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

On 06.05.2013 15:47, rich wrote:
> everyone should watch Il Divo. sums up post war Italian 
> politics/corruption rather nicely. i'm sicilian, what can I say, I 
> love this shit
>
>
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:markekohut at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>     *GianpieroPetriglieri*@gpetriglieri11m
>     <http://us-mg4.mail.yahoo.com/gpetriglieri/status/331395111848128513>
>     Andreotti's most famous line was autobiography and political
>     philosophy in one. "Power wears out those who don't have it."
>
>

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