NP but relevant?

[rich]

sorta like Operation Condor in South America. if the CIA did it there,
maybe Gladio was the model for Condor



On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> "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> wrote:
>
>>  *GianpieroPetriglieri* @gpetriglieri 11m<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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