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Octafish

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35. Like a false flag event?
Sat Oct 24, 2015, 04:42 PM
Oct 2015
GLADIO: THE SECRET U.S. WAR TO SUBVERT ITALIAN DEMOCRACY

by Arthur E. Rowse
Covert Action Quarterly, Dec. 1994

EXCERPT...

THE STRATEGY OF TENSION

Despite the failure of Plan Solo, the CIA and the Italian right had largely succeeded in creating the clandestine structures envisioned in Operation Demagnetize. Now the plotters turned their attention to a renewed offensive against the left.

To win intellectual support, the secret services set up a conference in Rome at the luxurious Parco dei Principi hotel in May 1965, for a "study" of "revolutionary war." The choice of words was inadvertently revealing, since the conveners and invited participants were planning a real revolution, not just warning of an imaginary communist takeover. The meeting was essentially a reunion of fascists, right-wing journalists, and military personnel. ``The strategy of tension'' that emerged was designed to disrupt normality with terror attacks in order to create chaos and provoke a frightened public into accepting still more authoritarian government. 20

Several "graduates" of this exercise had long records of anticommunist actions and would later be implicated in some of Italy's worst massacres. One was journalist and secret agent Guido Giannettini. Four years earlier, he had conducted a seminar at the U.S. Naval Academy on "The Techniques and Prospects of a Coup d'Etat in Europe." Another was notorious fascist Stefano Delle Chiaie, who had reportedly been recruited as a secret agent in 1960. He had organized his own armed band known as Avanguardia Nationale (AN), whose members had begun training in terror tactics in preparation for Plan Solo. 21

General De Lorenzo, whose SIFAR had now become SID, soon enlisted these and other confidants in a new Gladio project. They planned to create a secret parallel force alongside sensitive government offices to neutralize subversive elements not yet ``purified.'' Known as the Parallel SID, its tentacles reached into nearly every key institution of the Italian state. Gen.Vito Miceli, who later headed SID, said he set up the separate structure "at the request of the Americans and NATO." 22

SNIP...

THE BOLOGNA TRAIN STATION BOMBING

A huge explosion at the Bologna train station two years after Moro's death may have whitened the hair of many Italians - not just for the grisly toll of 85 killed and more than 200 injured - but for the official inaction that followed. Although the investigating magistrates suspected neofascists, they were unable to issue credible arrest warrants for more than two years because of false data from the secret services. By that time, all but one of the five chief suspects, two of whom had ties to SID, had skipped the country. 74 The T4 explosive found at the scene matched the Gladio material used in Brescia, Peteano and other bombings, according to expert testimony before Judge Mastelloni. 75

In the trial, the judges cited the "strategy of tension and its ties to 'foreign powers.'" They also found the secret military and civilian structure tied into neofascist groups, P-2, and the secret services. 76 In short, they found the CIA and Gladio.

But their efforts to exact justice for the Bologna bombing came to nothing when, in 1990, the court of appeals acquitted all the alleged "brains." P-2 head Gelli went free, as did two secret service chiefs whose perjury convictions were overturned. Four gladiators convicted of participating in an armed group also won appeals. That left Peteano as the only major bombing case with a conviction of the actual bomber, thanks to Vinciguerra's confession.

The sorry judicial record in these monstrous crimes showed how completely the Gladio network enveloped the army, police, secret services and the top courts. Thanks to P-2, with its 963 well-placed brothers, 77 the collusion also extended into the top levels of media and business.

CONTINUED...

http://www.mega.nu/ampp/gladio.html

That is a right wing thing to do.

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Clearly this happened accidentally on purpose. marmar Oct 2015 #1
The CIA Is Still Refusing to Release Its Files on This Alleged War Criminal Octafish Oct 2015 #4
Thanks for sharing all this tblue Oct 2015 #82
lol. maybe it was abducted by aliens uhnope Oct 2015 #55
I guess we can't call it a conspiracy theory, eh? PatrickforO Oct 2015 #2
Conspiracies In Action. Octafish Oct 2015 #15
it's so insanely un-democratic and contrary to our supposed principles... Fast Walker 52 Oct 2015 #53
could those bastards be any more obvious??? niyad Oct 2015 #3
Why, yes. But Watergate break-ins are passe. Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #7
''Sólo Dios estaba con nosotros.'' Octafish Oct 2015 #16
thank you for posting this, will have to watch later, though. niyad Oct 2015 #19
Good fucking god! Ed Suspicious Oct 2015 #32
New York Times covered for illegal war... Octafish Oct 2015 #62
thanks, Octafish! librechik Oct 2015 #64
Because they know that they are bullet proof. christx30 Oct 2015 #20
^^^THIS^^^ Octafish Oct 2015 #24
La Penca Octafish Oct 2015 #34
Ed Meese was a criminal - stole the PROMIS software from Inslaw bananas Oct 2015 #59
this story was part of my early radicalization. grasswire Oct 2015 #85
Inslaw-PROMIS Octafish Oct 2015 #93
Yes they can. The next phase is that they come in the front door with guns and demand rhett o rick Oct 2015 #48
why should they librechik Oct 2015 #65
They will do it because they can. They are getting bolder and bolder and it's being normalized. rhett o rick Oct 2015 #69
it's normalized, all right--but how can you be bolder librechik Oct 2015 #70
Which president are you referring to? nm rhett o rick Oct 2015 #78
They've killed more than one. But the answer is the same. When the bullet has "property of the CIA" rhett o rick Oct 2015 #84
Note to self: tabasco Oct 2015 #5
With multiple back-ups in various locations. Downwinder Oct 2015 #6
and at an undisclosed location, with LOTS of redundancy and backup niyad Oct 2015 #9
That was the point of Wikileaks. leveymg Oct 2015 #51
& thumb drives Marty McGraw Oct 2015 #26
and, to all the silly Marty McGraw Oct 2015 #28
Our tax dollars at work. jalan48 Oct 2015 #8
hey, I remember CISPES--death-squad goons let into Los Angeles to rob what they could MisterP Oct 2015 #10
some reason? librechik Oct 2015 #11
CIA - Henchmen For American Empire - Know Thy Enemy cantbeserious Oct 2015 #12
Move along. Nothing to see here. Moral Compass Oct 2015 #13
COINCIDENCE. Completely random! How can you think otherwise? n/t TygrBright Oct 2015 #14
"...elements that make this an unusual incident" suffragette Oct 2015 #17
"The break-in coincided with a campus visit by CIA Director John Brennan" nt bananas Oct 2015 #61
Cover for Action. PeoViejo Oct 2015 #81
Yes, that definitely caught my eye. suffragette Oct 2015 #87
Quelle surprise! dorkzilla Oct 2015 #18
Maybe they did it to themselves ymetca Oct 2015 #21
F.F.I. FlatBaroque Oct 2015 #33
Like a false flag event? Octafish Oct 2015 #35
Oh, My... Thespian2 Oct 2015 #22
Something doesn't seem right about this story Zorro Oct 2015 #23
was witness documents, names?/statements?. Stuff the buglers can use to snuff 'witnesses' Sunlei Oct 2015 #42
Seems pretty farfetched to me Zorro Oct 2015 #45
Fortunately... CanSocDem Oct 2015 #63
Fortunately... Zorro Oct 2015 #75
Maybe the documents were from an unofficial source and therefore JDPriestly Oct 2015 #44
I doubt the CIA had any interest in burglarizing the place Zorro Oct 2015 #47
The CIA would not be the only group or the only person interested JDPriestly Oct 2015 #54
Agree. n/t lumberjack_jeff Oct 2015 #80
I didn't realize "that most CIA documents are exempt from FOIA" Center for Human rights, Sunlei Oct 2015 #25
by determination, not by law. They just refuse, and journalists sue librechik Oct 2015 #72
Church Lady says> BlueJazz Oct 2015 #27
+1 nt restorefreedom Oct 2015 #38
Is church lady still a repigliCON? lonestarnot Oct 2015 #67
Yeah, most likely. I've heard he was a Dem until he became famous and had some power. Figures. BlueJazz Oct 2015 #74
yep, pip squeak asshat. lonestarnot Oct 2015 #92
"and it is suspected that the CIA may have had something to do with the break-in" Matariki Oct 2015 #29
America is SUPPOSED to be a democracy... gregcrawford Oct 2015 #30
It all goes back to the Dulles Brothers, hifiguy Oct 2015 #41
Amen. gregcrawford Oct 2015 #52
Brudda, you got that SO right. hifiguy Oct 2015 #58
They are in the interests of shareholders. raouldukelives Oct 2015 #60
that's because you believe the US is a democracy of good will and fair intentions librechik Oct 2015 #71
No, I'm too old and seen too much to be that naive... gregcrawford Oct 2015 #73
Thanks Octafish 1norcal Oct 2015 #31
Just reserved a copy. Octafish Oct 2015 #88
Time to go back. silverweb Oct 2015 #36
Kicked and recommended! Enthusiast Oct 2015 #37
"MAY have had something to do with the burglary." hifiguy Oct 2015 #39
Tide goes in, tide goes out; you can't explain that! graegoyle Oct 2015 #40
Let's hope they had scanned it all into electronic form. JDPriestly Oct 2015 #43
K&R. JDPriestly Oct 2015 #46
I am just shocked, shocked, I tell you! 2naSalit Oct 2015 #49
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Oct 2015 #50
I have my doubts that this is what they think it is mythology Oct 2015 #56
the second goal is to terrorize the subject librechik Oct 2015 #66
Just wait long enough and they'll admit to coups and war crimes... MrMickeysMom Oct 2015 #57
"Some analysts" ronnie624 Oct 2015 #79
We've come a long way since Watergate. bemildred Oct 2015 #68
BFEE forever gains, thanks to official secrecy. Octafish Oct 2015 #91
Isn't that what happened to Michael Rupport (spelling?) author of Hotler Oct 2015 #76
this is so obviously and memorably what the CIA/etc does, it's modus operandus librechik Oct 2015 #77
we ought to have a pinned thread somewhere on DU... grasswire Oct 2015 #86
terrorists EdwardBernays Oct 2015 #83
Secret Government Benefits The Overclass Octafish Oct 2015 #89
Kick and R BeanMusical Oct 2015 #90
k&r nt Electric Monk Oct 2015 #94
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