Nato's Secret Armies
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In his book, “NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe,” Daniele Ganser described their clandestine Cold War operations, run by European secret services, collaborating with NATO, the CIA and Britain's MI6 and Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) against a possible Soviet invasion, internal communist takeovers, or others on the political left gaining power.
EXTRACT:
In Italy, against both communist and socialist parties, it was claimed they wanted to weaken NATO “from within,” Italian judge, Felice Casson, learning that right-wing terrorists carried out bombings against civilians, blamed them on the left, neo-fascist Vincenzo Vinciguerra explaining the scheme as follows:
“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.”
In 2000, the Italian Senate was more explicit, saying:
“Those massacres, those bombs, those military actions had been organized or promoted or supported by men inside Italian state institutions and, as had been discovered more recently, by men linked to the structures of United States intelligence,” meaning CIA mainly.
Former director William Colby admitted in his memoirs that covert western armies were a major CIA initiative, begun post-WW II, and restricted “to the smallest possible coterie of the most reliable people, in Washington (and) NATO” to keep the initiative secret.
Phi Beta Iota: CIA's importation of 100 Nazis a year after WWII (and probably many more, it has always considered itself above the law, both domestic and foreign) fueled a truly psychopathic perception of communism that led to policies and programs that today are clearly seen to be crimes against humanity, but back in the day were seen as “collateral damage” essential to contain communism while maintaining “control” over key governments.
See Also:
Reference: James Gibney Review of Landsdale Book
Review: Edward Lansdale’s Cold War (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War) (Paperback)
Reference: US Responsibility for Atrocities in Indonesia
Reference: Instruments of Statecraft
Review: Gold Warriors–America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold
Review: Red Sky in the Morning–The secret history of two men who got away – and one who didn’t. (Paperback)
Review: JFK and the Unspeakable–Why He Died & Why It Matters
Review: Killing Hope–U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II-Updated Through 2003
Review: The Trial of Henry Kissinger
Review: Dark Alliance–The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
I Ran Drugs for Uncle Sam–William “Tosh” Plumlee (5 hour audio interview) on the “Dark Alliance”
Review: Lost History–Contras, Cocaine, the Press & ‘Project Truth’
Review: The Fifty Year Wound–The True Price of America’s Cold War Victory
