Reddit reviews NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe (Contemporary Security Studies)

You have the Agenzia Informazioni e Sicurezza Esterna and a whole bunch of interesting shit from NATO. Actually, too interesting if by "interesting" you mean completely fucked up.

The russians left eastern Germany over 20 years ago, the US-Forces are still here.
And btw. Germany was no third world country but one of the 3 most advanced since the end of the 19th century.

The US didnt present the Marshall plan because they were so nice, but because it was in their interest to have a bulwark and a display window of corporatism against communist russia; furthermore a giant new sales market for their own products. Germany would have found to old economic strenght eventually...

(because thats what happend after WW1 besides the fact the war reparations were so high that they were one factor that lead to WW2.),

...but the advantage of investing in a completely broken market who will reach all time highs in the end is too sweet to not get involved with own capital.

Its a little bit flouting that you really believe the US did build Germany to the strong economy it now is known for. The reason Germany has such a strong economy is first of all its mentality, innovativeness, infrastructure (for example its road network) and knowledge (through its education system and craftsmanship).

Now to the point about fear:

I dont know if you ever heard about "Gladio". If not i recommend you to read the book swiss historian Daniele Ganser : wrote about it
I emphasize that this is NO conspiracy theory book by some weird old man but his dissertation at the university of Basel (Switzerland).

There's conspiracy theory (i.e. Michael Jackson gave Elvis a haircut on a UFO)and there's conspiracy fact:

NATO's Secret Armies

FEMA BPAT

Sol-gel based Nanocomposites Found in WTC Dust

Anthrax from the 911 Attacks linked to US labs

2 minutes more digging on wikipedia would have shown you that Gladio was not limited to Italy; but had counter parts in most European countries: Operation Gladio


In any case - and this goes for the other people questioning what I wrote - you cannot quickly google "Gladio", read 3 paragraphs on Wikipedia and suddenly become an "expert".

Instead, I highly recommend this book:

NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe

Daniele goes into significant depth in describing the ties between American intelligence services and various extremist right-wing paramilitary organizations throughout mainland Europe. More importantly: he details how a 2000 Italian senate investigation unveiled the role of Vincenco Vinciguerra in the Bologna bombing. Vinciguerra himself confessed to having ties with the Gladio network and the CIA.

Here is what wikpedia says about him: Vincenzo Vinciguerra. Draw your own conclusions; but having lived through the attrocities committed by the Gang of Nijvel in Belgium (another paramilitary group linked to Gladio) and then seen how, despite a mountain of evidence and the number of casualties involved, the culprits are never apprehended because of government interference (evidence lost, chief investigators fired as soon as they started making progress, the responsibility for the investigation moved from one department to another every 6 months, etc, etc), you would have to be extremely naive to assume this is all just a "conspiracy theory"....

Let me be the devil's advocate here ... these firebombs where conveniently discovered just when a German hacker group unveiled unconstitutional spying on citizens paid for by tax payer money. It wouldn't be the first time that some incredibly sensationalist headline broke just before or right after discoveries that would get politics into the headlines in an undesirable way. Secret services could easily plant these bombs and create a little fire that would cause uproar and inconvenience to a bunch of people without actually hurting anyone, blame terrorist for it and get people to focus on these headlines other than the things that were just uncovered.

I can't find the link right now but there was a big arms deal that went through in the Summer of 2006 when the whole country was swept up in the euphoria around the soccer world championship. Our government is no exception when it comes to selecting convenient times to go through with stuff when nobody is watching.

Call it paranoia but ever since I read Daniele Ganser's "NATO's Secret Armies - Operation Gladio" I don't trust these kinds of things a single bit. Especially since it's directed against "the left".

https://www.amazon.ca/NATOs-Secret-Armies-Operation-Terrorism/dp/0714685003/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?keywords=gladio&qid=1563409039&s=gateway&sr=8-6

There are many sources for it and you can find the European Parliament's reports/findings on the topic. Also, Swiss historian Daniele Ganser's book NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe covers the topic in-depth, and you can read parts of that book online at the above Amazon.com link.

Amazon describes the book as:

> This fascinating new study shows how the CIA and the British secret service, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services, set up a network of clandestine anti-communist armies in Western Europe...In some countries the secret army linked up with right-wing terrorist who in a secret war engaged in political manipulation, harrassement of left wing parties, massacres, coup d'états and torture.

Needless to say, the news of the European Parliament's findings were spun, downplayed, and de facto buried by our corporate mass media here in the US.

I am able to separate fact from fiction, and make up my own mind about things, and his telling or re-telling of the facts is something that the world needs more of. I could give a shit about what he thinks of Sandy Hook, but I have read some interesting articles about false flags over the years, and the fact that the CIA financed and participated in terrorism and bombings over many decades in order to influence the domestic and foreign policies of many European countries. I have no opinion if Charlie Hebdo was a false flag-CIA orchestrated attack, but it would not surprise me to find out someday that it was and proof was shared. I will say this; More often than not, Paul Craig Robert is a wise man, and he knows what he's talking about. That is not to say that I agree with everything he believes in. Good day.

Operation Gladio And The False Flag Muslim Terror Hoax

TheTruthSeeker. June 10, 2017

• “Most terrorists are false flag terrorists, or are created by our security services.”
  
  --Robert Steele – Former CIA Clandestine Services Officer
  
  
• “You had to attack civilians, the innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: To force the public to turn to the state for greater security”.
  
  --Gladio Operative, Vincenzo Vinciguerra, 2001
  
  “In his 2005 book, “NATO’s Secret Armies:Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe,” Daniel Ganser accused the US and their NATO allies of using Gladio, a decades long campaign of false flag terror Attacks directed by Western Intelligence agencies that were responsible for the murder of hundreds of innocent civilians.”
  
  “Gladio operatives were involved in a silent Coup d’etat in 1969, and multiple bombings in the1960’s, 70’s and 80’s in Italy alone. The Italian Government released a 300 page report on Gladio Operations in 2000. The report, unsurprisingly said that, the massacres, bombings and military operations were planned and executed by men within the Italian Government and the American CIA. In 1980, Italy experienced its worst ever terror attack at a train station in Bologna. 85 died in the attack and over 200 were wounded. The investigation led police to Vincent Vinciguerra.”
  
  
  https://leaksource.wordpress.com/2017/06/10/operation-gladio-and-the-false-flag-muslim-terror-hoax/
  
  

Check out "Operation Gladio" if you want to know the shady things NATO is used for. http://www.truthmove.org/content/operation-gladio/ "

• 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…