Operation Gladio is undisputed historical fact. Gladio was part of a
post-World War II program set up by the CIA and NATO supposedly to
thwart future Soviet/communist invasions or influence in Italy and
Western Europe. In fact, it became a state-sponsored right-wing
terrorist network, involved in false flag operations and the subversion
of democracy.The existence of Gladio was confirmed and admitted by the Italian government in 1990, after a judge, Felice Casson, discovered the network in the course of his investigations into right-wing terrorism. Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti admitted Gladio’s existence but tried to minimize its significance.
The main function of the Gladio-style groups, in the absence of Soviet invasion, seems to have been to discredit left-wing groups and politicians through the use of “the strategy of tension,” including false-flag terrorism. The strategy of tension is a concept for control and manipulation of public opinion through the use of fear, propaganda, agents provacateurs, terrorism, etc. The aim was to instill fear into the populace while framing communist and left-wing political opponents for terrorist atrocities.
Gladio and its “stay-behind” networks may be one of
the most historically “accepted” or “confirmed” examples of false-flag
terrorism. The documentation, the resolutions, confessions, and
convictions all confirm that Gladio is much more than the media or
government would have you believe—a mere “conspiracy theory.” See the
State Department’s special site dedicated to dismissing “conspiracy
theories,” including their page on Gladio.
Truth movers should take advantage of Gladio and the stay-behind networks as a confirmed precedent of the US and western governments participating in ruthless terrorist attacks against their own people in order instill fear, control the population, and frame left-wing political opponents. People who believe that such things do not or cannot happen should be forcefully made aware of such examples as Operation Gladio.
Truth movers should take advantage of Gladio and the stay-behind networks as a confirmed precedent of the US and western governments participating in ruthless terrorist attacks against their own people in order instill fear, control the population, and frame left-wing political opponents. People who believe that such things do not or cannot happen should be forcefully made aware of such examples as Operation Gladio.
Evidence
- The August 2, 1980 bombing of the Bologna train station which
killed 85 people, is widely recognized as a Gladio operation. While it
was initially blamed on the communist “Red Brigades,” eventually,
right-wing and fascists elements were discoverd to be the culprits. Two
Italian secret service agents and Licio Gelli, the head of the infamous
P2 Masonic lodge, were convicted in connection to the bombing. 1
- “The makings of the bomb… came from an arsenal used by Gladio…
according to a parliamentary commission on terrorism… The suggested link
with the Bologna massacre is potentially the most serious of all the
accusations levelled against Gladio, and comes just two days after the
Italian Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, cleared Gladio’s name in a
speech to parliament, saying that the secret army did not drift from its
formal Nato military brief” The Guardian January 16, 1991 1
- 1969: “In Italy, the Piazza Fontana massacre in Milan kills 16
and injures and maims 80 [….] during a trial of rightwing extremists
General Giandelio Maletti, former head of Italian counterintelligence,
alleges that the massacre had been carried out by the Italian
stay-behind army and rightwing terrorists on the orders of the US secret
service CIA in order to discredit Italian Communists.” 10
- 1985: “In Belgium, a secret army attacks and shoots shoppers in
supermarkets randomly in the Brabant county killing 28 and leaving many
wounded. Investigations link the terror to a conspiracy among the
Belgian stay-behind
SDRA8, the Belgian Gendarmerie SDRA6, the Belgian right-wing group WNP
and the Pentagon secret service DIA.” 10
- According to Vincenzo Vinciguerra, a far-right terrorist linked
to Gladio and currently serving a life-sentence for the car bomb murder
of 3 policement, “The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to
force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for
greater security. This is the political logic that lies behind all the
massacres and the bombings which remain unpunished, because the state
cannot convict itself or declare itself responsible for what happened.” 6
- Vinciguerra also made this statement to The Guardian,
“The terrorist line was followed by camouflaged people, people belonging
to the security apparatus, or those linked to the state apparatus
through rapport or collaboration. I say that every single outrage that
followed from 1969 fitted into a single, organised matrix… Avanguardia
Nazionale, like Ordine Nuovo (the main right-wing terrorist group active
during the 1970s), were being mobilised into the battle as part of an
anti-communist strategy originating not with organisations deviant from
the institutions of power, but from within the state itself, and
specifically from within the ambit of the state’s relations within the
Atlantic Alliance.” 1
- In 1990, the European Parliament passed a resolution condemning
Gladio. The resolution requested full investigations and a total
dismantlement of the paramilitary structures involved—neither of which
have come to pass.
- Similar Gladio-like operations have been discovered across Europe, including France, Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Switzerland…
Resources
Links
- Gladio Wikipedia
- Detailed Article from Statewatch
- Interview with Gladio Researcher Daniele Ganser Le Monde Diplomatique
- Secret Warfare: Gladio by Daniele Ganser
- Global Research Article on Gladio by Daniele Ganser
- Vincenzo Vinciguerra Gladio Terrorist
- Sword Play by Chris Floyd
- Strategy of Tension Wikipedia
- America.gov Response to Gladio
Books
Nato’s Secret Armies by Daniele Ganser, 2004 or read online at Google BooksVideos
- BBC’s Timewatch: Gladio 3 Parts on Google VIdeo
