Begun in the 1950s, it was initially organized by cord meyer and allen w. Hansen also criticized ganser for basing his claim of the big conspiracy off the us army field manual 3031b, a cold war era hoax document. Operation gladio gladio is the italian form of gladius, a type of roman shortsword. Ciardp96007898003300212 secret noforn star gate limdis project star gate secret noforn star gate limdis approved for release 20000808. The investigations concerning the bologna bombing proved gladio s direct influence. Armed forces will be compelled to form the military tribunals necessary to administer the uniform code of military justice. Daniele ganser, author of the seminal book natos secret armies. Today, even the westernbacked fighters in nazi ukraine and syria are basically gladio fighters. The cia spearheaded gladio under the pretext of preventing the spread of soviet communism in europe.
It was the brainchild of allen dulles when he was negotiating the surrender in northern this book is about a secret operation set up by the oss, the predecessor to the cia, consisting of setting up sleeper counterinsurgency groups throughout western. It may well have proved gladio s influence, but not involvement in the bombing itself. The unholy alliance between the vatican, the cia, and the mafia by paul l. Operation northwoods was a proposed false flag operation against the cuban government that originated within the u. Operation gladio and terrorism in western europe, by daniele ganser, as lila rajiva reports on.
Operation gladio and terrorism in western europe, who joins us for a fascinating though. Militaryintelligences ongoing, global gang stalking operations as documented in new world war. It was discussed at the highest level and wealth of documented evidence proves that governments were committing terrorist attacks against their own populations. Gladio s terrorism was conducted in order to shape the minds of the european public, and thus manipulate the political landscape in favor of the goals of u. The declassified documents reveal plans for the plane to reach a top speed. In fact, it became a statesponsored rightwing terrorist network, involved in false flag operations and the subversion of. Black operation carried out during holy week to inflame religious hatreds operation gladio is the terrorist arm of nato aka north atlantic terrorist organization the millennium report. This article was first posted on gr in january 2016 our guest this week is swiss historian dr. Operation gladio reveals that kissinger ordered moro murder. Investigating the terror operation gladio document collection. Williams to learn more about operation gladio and the cias. Although gladio specifically refers to the italian branch of the nato staybehind organizations.
The snarky tldr about operation gladio is that it was a nebulous idea in which conspiratoriallyminded people could project theories about why postwar europe developed in the way it did, and offers convenient, neat, explanations for these folks in their quest to understand the secret forces that directed and dictated europe. Gladio is an umbrella name used by commentators and historians to refer to a series of smallscale covert armies active across europe throughout the cold war 19451990. The operation was codenamed gladio, for the short swords used by roman gladiators in the arena. Operazione gladio is the codename for a clandestine nato staybehind operation in europe during the cold war. The original gladio was established just after the end of world war ii by a small number of senior officials within osscia, mi6 and nato. The office of public affairs opa is the single point of contact for all inquiries about the central intelligence agency cia. Declassified documents reference system, document no. Gladio italian for gladius, the sword is a type of roman short sword is a code name denoting the clandestine nato staybehind operation in italy. Dear friends, operation gladio is a secret anticommunist organization formed during the cold war years, as quoted in the new york times. The article concludes that the documents released to the parliamentary committees do not permit the assumption that operation gladio was.
Top 10 declassified documents that rocked the world. Declassified files show that in 1955, the cias western hemisphere division whd chief received a secret memo, boasting a subject line that no doubt caused him to jump up from his chair, and spew any liquid in his mouth across the room operational. Sign up for the free black vault newsletter, updating you on case files, declassified documents, and news. The unholy alliance between the vatican, the cia, and the mafia by williams, paul l. Utilizing the freedom of information act foia, the black vaults founder john greenewald, jr. Williams is knowledgeable about the recent history of the vatican, an aspect i most wanted to understand. Operation gladio was responsible for some horrible atrocities and false flag attacks in italy, such as the bombing of bologna train station in 1980. Italian secret service, later replaced because it was suspected of involvement in a 1964 coup plot and the cia. Peer henrik hansen, a scholar at roskilde university, wrote two scathing criticisms of the book for the international journal of intelligence and counterintelligence and the journal of intelligence history, describing gansers work as a journalistic book with a big spoonful of conspiracy theories that fails to present proof of and an indepth explanation of the claimed. In retrospect i therefore have to admit that my wellmeaning friends. Declassified cia docs say hitler was alive and well in. Operation gladio and natos staybehind armies introduction after the cold war had ended, then italian prime minister giulio andreotti confirmed to the italian senate in august 1990 that italy had had a secret staybehind army, codenamed gladio the sword. May 21, 2000 explosives from gladio caches and gladio members were implicated in a wave of terrorist attacks, including the 1980 bolognas train station bombing that killed 85 people.
Ganser fails to document his thesis that the cia, mi6, and nato and its friends turned gladio into a terrorist organization. In retrospect i therefore have to admit that my wellmeaning friends had been right. It was a multinational military plan to arm and train clandestine groups in many perhaps all of its member countries and elsewhere in europe. Freedom of information act request on cias operation gladio 14 december 2000 language. We read every letter, fax, or email we receive, and we will convey your comments to cia officials outside opa as appropriate. The intelligence officers bookshelf central intelligence.
Watching the hawks sean stone sits down with awardwinning journalist and former fbi counterterrorism consultant paul l. Its purpose was to continue anticommunist actions in the event of a soviet invasion and conquest. The story started as early as 1942 with the formation of the vatican bank. A false flag operation operation gladio staged false flag terrorism. Home corruption 20 declassified files that prove governmental crime and conspiracy part 1. Full text of ganser natos secret armies operation gladio and. This essay is based on an analysis of the official documentation made available to the italian parliamentary commissions of inquiry on the origins and development of the staybehind network in italy. The new is video we will burn america threatens the united states with another 911 and despite the graphic depictions of murder is hosted on the neoconservative site pj media. In fact im tempted to watch it all over again, because the number of characters is a bit dizzying thats not a judgment or negative criticism im just not very good with names. Operation mockingbird was a secret campaign by the united states central intelligence agency cia to influence media. Hundreds of thousands of declassified cia documents now. The unholy alliance between the vatican, the cia, and the mafia williams, paul l. Operation gladio and terrorism in western europe, who joins us for a fascinating though at times unsettling conversation on the subject of operation gladio.
The preceding headlines spell it all out as does the telling graphic. The unholy alliance between the vatican, the cia, and the. Jan 18, 2017 the cia recently released 930,000 declassified documents more than 12 million pages online, representing 25 years of archived material. Declassified original stasi documents from the archives now confirm that the. Department of defense dod and the joint chiefs of staff jcs of the united states government in 1962.
Then, as commanderinchief, the prez can lock up the perps at guantanamo bay detention camp. Operation gladio 1 operation gladio emblem of gladio, italian branch of the nato staybehind paramilitary organizations. These have been gathered in a new book, natos secret armies. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading operation gladio. This was a top secret network of fascist staybehind cells trained to carry out acts of terrorism in the event of a soviet invasion. There was only one mention of operation mockingbird in these files, in which it was revealed that two american journalists were wiretapped for several months. Licio gelli, p2s headmaster, received a sentence for investigation diversion, as well as francesco pazienza and sismi officers pietro musumeci and giuseppe belmonte. It says that documents giving details about the secret agreements between the british and p26 have never been found. The unholy alliance between the vatican, the cia, and the mafia hardcover feb 3 2015. Operation gladio project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Feb 03, 2015 our guest this week is swiss historian dr. Dulles, it was later led by frank wisner after dulles became the head of the cia. Originally set up as a network of clandestine cells to be activated behind the lines in the event of a soviet invasion of western europe, gladio quickly expanded into a. Oct 19, 2011 operation gladio is undisputed historical fact.
His revelations led to a major political scandal, not only admit, but because he had denied in 1974, when he was defense minister. Staybehind operations were prepared in many nato member countries, and some neutral countries. The purpose of gladio was, it was apparently disbanded in 1990, despite not. Gladio was part of a postworld war ii program set up by the cia and nato supposedly to thwart future sovietcommunist invasions or influence in.
His body was found hanging under londons blackfriars bridge, an obvious reference to the p2 masonic lodge, of which he was a senior. Ciardp96007898003300212 approved for release 20000808. In august 1990, giulio andreotti, italian prime minister, confirmed that during the cold war period had existed in italy and other western countries, some of them attached to nato, a clandestine army under the code name gladio. Top 10 declassified documents that rocked the world enkivillage. Massive false flag terrorist operation targets sri lankawho did it and why. Could these last two false flag mass shootings in a span of two weeks be a sign that, just as many in the alternative media have wondered or claimed, operation gladio and or the nato option have actually been activated in the united states. English first reply request declined by the central intelligence agency cia to daniele ganser re. The unholy alliance between the vatican, the cia, and the mafia kindle edition by williams, paul l download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. This is the reality of operation gladio, and it is also why knowledge of its actions is critical to our understanding of present day terrorism. Operation gladio is likely to be a controversial book and may even be contested by several quarters. The proposals called for the central intelligence agency cia or other u.
In 1999 the former head of italian intelligence service, general maletti, said the attack was devised by the gladio and alleged terrorists of the extreme right, supported by members of the italian security forces that would have provided coverage. Revolutionary methods for political ontrol by mark m. Bush was a cia operative involved in operation mongoose during the kennedy administration. Operation gladio is the codename for clandestine staybehind operations of armed resistance that was planned by the western union wu, and subsequently by nato, for a potential warsaw pact invasion and conquest in europe. A strategy of tension in 1990, the italian prime minister had confirmed that italys stay behind army, termed gladio sword, existed since 1958, with the approval of the italian government.
The black vault has more than 2,000,000 pages of declassified u. Any antifascist should have read that from the start. The unholy alliance between the vatican, the cia, and the mafia is a multimegaton explosion of truth. This collection of around 150 pages of onceclassified material sheds light on the ideological and operational origins of the nowinfamous operation gladio. However, it would be difficult to reject the evidence author paul l.
Gladio was part of a postworld war ii program set up by the cia and nato supposedly to thwart future sovietcommunist invasions or influence in italy and western europe. Documents shown to the italian parliamentary terrorism committee revealed that in the 1970s british and french officials involved in the network visited a training. Operation gladio bbc timewatch, 1992 statesponsored terror. Strange threats in ohio, operation gladio and pj medias michael ledeen.
Though declassified documents show that this type of operation occurred, its never been officially confirmed as the title of operation mockingbird. The italian branch of the network was known as operation gladio richard norton taylor, guardian, 151190 gladio was the name given to the italian branch of a network with the harmless official name, allied coordination committee, set up with british help in the 1950s, operated by the secret services and partly financed by the united. Operation gladio 1951 gladio, which means sword in italian, was the name the italian government chose for the stay behind network it established in the early days of the cold war. By makia freeman the freedom articles declassified files are useful in a world where truthtellers and openminded investigators are shut down, censored and accused of being. Returning to my nato pile in the library, i began with operation gladio. Government documents ready to download on nearly any government secret you can imagine.
By exposing operation gladio and the secret armies of nato the uncle had. Operation gladio, italy the history of the secret neofascist army in italy set up ostensibly to resist soviet invasion, but in reality to be used in the event of the working class growing too strong once again. Because operation gladio c is fundamentally a covert military operation, the u. Since the history of gladio explains a lot about where the neonazi movement in europe comes from. The plan, known as operation gladio, called for the formation of. This disturbing expose describes a secret alliance forged at the c. Massive false flag terrorist operation targets sri. I found the film thoroughly gripping one of those stories that stays with you for a while afterwards. Operation gladio, which still continues to this day, is the codename for a clandestine nato staybehind operation in italy during the cold war. This document proved that a cia and natolinked secret army codenamed gladio had existed in italy during the cold war, yet further original documents were very hard to come by. Its 15,000 members were recruited from fascist wwii veterans groups and had access to 151 secret arms dumps. Copiously documented, it details the rise of the cia drug mafia the biggest and baddest narcotics outfit on the planet and its vast moneylaundering operations, including its use of the vatican as. The unholy alliance between the vatican, the cia, and the mafia.
Operation gladio b is a classified ongoing expansion of operation gladio. Freedom of information act foia request on operation gladio. Operation gladiob understanding why false flags exist. How the cia controls the media collection documents. Operation gladio is the codename for clandestine staybehind operations of armed resistance that was planned by the western union wu, and subsequently by nato, for a. Gladios terrorism was conducted in order to shape the minds of the european public, and thus manipulate the political landscape in favor of the goals of u. Governmentsponsored domestic terrorism targets american public schools how the cias mkultra mind control program creates mass shooters and turns lone gunmen into patsies. What has come to be called operation gladio was never intended to be publicly acknowledged. Operation gladio was a nato false flag terrorism operation that ran for more almost forty years.
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