Friday, February 15, 2008

Gladio - Death Plan For Democracy

By Peter Chamberlin
© Copyright Peter Chamberlin, Global Research, 2008

Global Research, February 5, 2008

In late January 2008, a secret paramilitary group (formerly?) allied with America was busted in
Turkey. Thirteen members of a shadowy right-wing group in Turkey were charged with "forming an
armed terrorist group in order to provoke members of the public into armed revolt against the
government."

http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2373933
"The detention in Istanbul last week of alleged members of a shadowy Turkish ultranationalist
group has revived charges that elements within the Turkish security apparatus have long tried
to destabilize the country through a campaign of bombings and assassinations. These allegedly
include false flag operations that have been attributed to Kurdish separatists and violent
Islamists... The Turkish media have claimed that the latest arrests follow intelligence reports
that the gang was planning to carry out a series of high level assassinations...what Turks
call... deep state has its origins in what are commonly called Gladio operations "   - Mass
Arrests Expose Operations of Turkey's "Deep State" -  By Gareth Jenkins
The use of proxy mercenary forces to terrorize nations into submitting to US political demands
has been the cornerstone of American foreign policy since at least the era of the Berlin Wall,
and it still is.

  "Terrorism - the use of violence and threats to intimidate or to coerce, esp. for political
purposes."

According to this definition from Dictionary.com, the government of the United States of
America is the primary source of state terrorism in the world.

In Europe, the American government actively sought to eliminate political opposition to its
fascist world plans through the use of open violent repression and covert terroristic "false
flag" attacks upon popular patriotic resistance movements and their leaders.  Using ultra
right-wing homegrown fascists, in both Europe and America, secret paramilitary militias were
created, called "Stay Behind" forces at the end of World War II.  Since then, the CIA activated
these groups to successfully quash anti-American liberal and social democratic popular
resistance movements.  The agency denies this, but the series of exposes of their network in
Europe since 1990 have proven the professed denials to be false.

The secret American plans to turn dissent into a weapon for destroying democracy were applied
equally, yet differently, in America and Europe.  Here, the procedure called for using more
subtlety, as opposed to Europe, where everything would happen outside of the controlled
environment of the corporate US media.  In Europe, so-called "pro-communist" forces could be
fought more aggressively, using secretive groups like Gladio to physically attack the antiwar,
Labor-oriented and liberal protest movements.  Behind the scenes, terror attacks were
carried-out by anonymous sources to be blamed on the opposition party.  Using the extreme
right-wing Gladio forces in this manner, as well as infiltrating and sabotaging leftist groups
from within, proved devastating at the polls.  People ran away from the resistance in droves,
seeking security in the waiting arms of the fascists and the all-powerful state.  But many
people did also see through the BS of the "official story" of events like the bombing of a
train stations in Bologna, Italy.

The secret plans for Europe entailed large covert paramilitary units in every NATO nation, that

were trained and ready to suppress all anti-American protests by liberals and social democrats.
  The official name of the covert programs was "Gladio."  The official cover story (and its
original purpose) was that these right-wing paramilitary units were "Stay Behind" forces, which
were created as copies of the French "underground" resistance, to be activated upon a Soviet
conquest and occupation of Europe.  The Stay Behind/Gladio forces saw a change of mission in
the sixties, when the European socialist/liberal alliance began to awaken strong nationalist
movements in every NATO country.1

The Timewatch investigation documents the secret formation of these neo-fascist units
throughout Europe, highlighting individual local leaders and their personal testimony about
participating in armed attacks upon government armories and supermarkets, as well as terror
bombings, like the bomb that was detonated at Bologna's train station, killing 85 and wounded
over 200.  Other revelations from the video about the operation include a damning investigation
of Gladio by the European Union, interviews with key Gladio players like neocon Michael Ledeen,
shadowy Iran/Contra figures Gen. John Singlaub, CIA spokesmen like former Director William
Colby and Ray Cline, as well as pivotal controversial documentation on secret Army participation.

In contradiction of CIA denials about the true purpose of Gladio and the scope of its
operations and neoconservative lies that there was no Gladio, the following excerpt, from joint
resolution (EP 22.11.90) of the European Parliament condemns actions of US and allied
intelligence agencies involved.   http://users.westnet.gr/~cgian/gladio.htm

     "Whereas in certain Member States military secret services (or uncontrolled branches
thereof) were involved in serious cases of terrorism and crime as evidenced by, various
judicial inquiries... these organizations operated and continue to operate completely outside
the law...      whereas the various `GLADIO' organizations have at their disposal independent
arsenals and military resources which give them an unknown strike potential, thereby
jeopardizing the democratic structures of the countries in which they are operating or have
been operating..."

This officially condemns the lame official excuses, like that given by former CIA Director
William Colby (claiming on the video that these were small contingency plans for providing
covert intelligence sources only, in case of Soviet occupation), while exposing the duplicity
of stooges like neoconservative Michael Ledeen (who was implicated in the Gladio political
action while working for a right-wing Italian news service), who falsely argues that Gladio was
merely a Soviet disinformation program that was based:

"on an old forgery, designed to show that there's some kind of... accusing the United States
basically of what the Soviet union was doing in Italy, which was creating a secret underground
paramilitary organization capable of organizing to subvert Italian democracy."

This, "there is no spoon" explanation echoes the equally lame counter-story given by alleged
Gladio participant, Licio Gelli, Grand Master of super-secretive P2 Masonic lodge, that the
dreadful Bologna train station bombing was a "transportation accident," taking place in an open
marketplace, where explosives were commonly sold, when "someone threw a cigarette away."

The "old forgery" that Ledeen referred to was a document known as "US Defense Training Manual
30-31B.  The State Dept. claims that the CIA "debunked" this document as a Soviet forgery, even
though it is somehow listed within the classified sections of manual libraries .

http://usinfo.state.gov/media/Archive/2006/Jan/20-127177.html

The allegedly forged document, signed by Army Chief of Staff Gen. W.C. WESTMORELAND, contained
the following admission:

"There may be times when host country governments show passivity or indecision in the face of
Communist subversion...US Army Intelligence must have the means of launching special operations
which will convince host country governments and public opinion of the reality of the insurgent
danger... To this end, U.S. Army intelligence should seek to penetrate the insurgency by means
of agents on special assignment, with the task of forming special action groups among the more
radical elements of the insurgency. When the kind of situation envisaged above arises, these
groups, acting under U.S. Army intelligence control, should be used to launch violent or
non-violent actions according to the nature of the case."

Since this is a very precise description of the known activities of Gladio given by
participants in it, we must assume that history has confirmed that 30-31B is real.  In Gladio
operations, like those attributed to the "Deep State" group in Turkey, the plans for covert
acts of terrorism  (which were theoretically intended to implicate the Communists or other
enemies of the US, thus turning the population against them) were supposed to be activated at
that moment in the national struggle where the Communist/liberal forces turn away from armed
struggle, to embrace non-violent democratic elections, according to the  (CIA-alleged)
disinformation known as "Army Field Manual 30-31B."  But, as described so vividly in the BBC
documentary, the right-wing terror attacks upon leftist leaders preceded the use of those
tactics by the "pro-communist" forces.  In addition to staging false flag attacks meant to be
blamed upon the leftists, an intensive effort was made to infiltrate those movements, in order
to incite radicals within them into carrying-out their own copycat attacks.

While Ledeen and the CIA try to claim that Gladio is a "legend," fabricated by the  Soviets in
an attempt to blame the US for their actions, the revelation of historical evidence is
indicting America and the agency for introducing political terrorism to Western electoral
politics.  Gladio is an ongoing operation by our government to savagely kill and wound
thousands of our own allies, in order to blackmail them into supporting America's fascist plans
for the world.  "Political action" took on a whole new meaning at the hands of the CIA and its
hidden allies.

Terrorism, as political action, became the driving force in American foreign policy, and any
nation that sought our aid, or to become allied with us, had to accept this reality and the
necessity to keep blaming others for our own commissioned attacks.  The historical record of
"terrorist" bombings throughout the world is, for the most part, a record of our actions, done
under the cover of layers of "plausible deniability," created by the compartmentalization of
terrorist strike forces into different secret levels.

If the mercenary Gladio paramilitary forces could not provide a sufficient level of violence to
satisfy the Company's needs, then the agency could rely on its own paramilitary units, or on
special troops from Defense Intelligence under the 30-31B provision.  If the work required an
extra layer of "plausible deniability" then there were always criminal organizations for hire
and the super-secret network of "rogue operators" like Ed Wilson, who were officially alleged
to be "former CIA."   In the book, Charlie Wilson's War, former agent Wilson told President
Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua that he could raise an army of 1000 "ex" agents to defeat
anti-government rebels, for the right price.

In America we have seen that same commitment to the use of political violence play-out within
the CIA/corporate/Republican alliance, especially during the Nixon Administration as seen in
bloody incidents like the Kent State massacre, where right-wing Republican Ohio Governor James
Rhodes strove to impress his Republican masters by having young unsuspecting National Guardsmen
fire live ammunition into a crowd of young unsuspecting college students.  Behind the scenes
government provocateurs led radical movements like the SDS, the Weathermen and the Black
Panthers into violent actions, intended to discredit and slander the antiwar movement.  With
the empowerment of Reagan, Bush and agency director Casey, CIA involvement in American politics
was out in the open.

Co-opting the highly patriotic party Republican Party and the American right-wing in a
subversive program to eliminate democracy by turning it into a weapon in this country was not a
simple task.  It took a great deal of foresight, intricate planning and an enormous amount of
cash.  In order to gain control over America's right-wing as it had in Europe, the Company had
to formulate a program of intricate deception, in order to gain their trust, as a first step to
dominating their efforts.

Since grassroots conservatism in this country is based on a conspiracy theory-based belief
system, the agency had to promote the far-reaching conspiracy theories that were common to the
movement.  This meant that the CIA had to promote evidence of all-encompassing theories, such
as those concerning Jews, the "Illuminati" and international bankers, to win the trust of
suspicious Republican bigots.   Undercover agents had to pose as movement leaders and
researchers, who were committed to exposing the plots of our would-be "masters."  The agency
chose to play both the race card and the religion card, by making the "Zionist" plot to
colonize Palestine (a real conspiracy) the cornerstone of the CIA/corporate plot against the
world.  The agency promoted joint CIA/MOSSAD actions for the dual purpose of forwarding both US
corporate plans for the world and Israeli designs to reclaim the land of "Greater Israel,"
which were critical to conspiracy plans for the Middle East and creating a state of permanent
war there.

The master manipulators at the agency underwrote secret efforts by Zionist agents, who also
served US interests, to undermine American democracy and simultaneously cuddling-up to the
American extreme right-wing.  The Gladio-styled plan was to take over the ultra-nationalist
right and to infiltrate and corrupt the anti-government left.  They helped to create secretive
anti-Semitic organizations, as well as Zionist groups.   The two-pronged attack focused on
exposing Zionist subversives, while working to build a popular wave of anti-Semitism as a
national counter-reaction to Zionist crimes which they had helped to expose.

The key to convincing the masses of conservative Republican voters of this vast covert
conspiracy was found in the "big lie," where the government agents chose to expose choice
tidbits of its own massive brainwashing and social control campaigns, attributing them to
agents of "Zion."  The brainwashing science possessed by the government and applied through its
foundations and institutes (such as Rand, Ford, Carnegie, Stanford and Tavistock Institute)
dwarfs the alleged manipulative powers of any imagined conspiracy.  This proved to be extremely
successful, especially when combined with spectacular fear producing terror attacks.

In truth, mind control science, developed and implemented since World War II (largely by Jewish
scientists and psychologists), is all CIA.  With the rise of former CIA director George Bush to
the position of "vice president elect," (and their "October surprise" obtained with a purloined
speech prep book for the great debate) the agency began to apply those behavioral control
techniques of Gladio to the political process.

The political product of that behavioral research, which became known as "neoconservatism,"
http://rense.com/general77/neneo.htm  was a deliberate attempt to duplicate the psychology
of pre-WWII Europe  (especially that of Nazi Germany) here in America, based on the scientific
research of the Jewish intellectuals, who had fled from there for their lives.  The recreation
of a radical anti-Semitic political belief system here would be enhanced by popular resistance
and reaction to the fascist neoconservative policies of Zionist dual-citizenship neocons.
Leaders were found who could inspire armies of individuals to believe that there is a powerful
dark conspiracy afoot that can mobilize secret armies of millions, to control every aspect of
every life, or nearly so.  The success of the brainwashing program can be measured directly by
the number and intensity of individuals who believe in theories of "racial superiority,"
whether they be believers in ideas of either "Jewish superiority" or in counter-theories of
white or "Aryan" superiority.

Today's resistance movement of counter-reaction to neoconservative/Zionist fascism is under
assault by dueling forces, who either want to silence the movement, or to misdirect and co-opt
it.  If the movement is silenced by Zionists or divided by anti-Zionists, it will not be able
to disrupt the neoconservative plans to launch nuclear war against Iran and thereby usher in a
state of permanent war.

The over-eager Zionist zealots who willingly became part of this conspiracy have unknowingly
sealed Israel's fate, as the intended target for the coming wave of anti-Semitism.  Little did
they know that their Republican friends planned to drag-up Zionism's historical record of
utilizing anti-Semites in their secret plans to force the Jewish "Diaspora" out of Europe to
forcefully colonize Palestine, as proof of a global "Jewish conspiracy."  The intensive
campaign of lies and subterfuge that have been used to hide fascist Israeli intentions to
"ethnically cleanse" Palestine and the surrounding area of its Arab inhabitants, confirm all
the negative stereotyping of the "Jewish state," especially in light of "Israel lobby" plans to
force America to fight Israel's wars, even the ones started by Israel.

The Gladio-centered US foreign policy, which was so successfully played-out in Europe,
effectively countered the Soviet expansion at a high cost to European democracy.  The
application of that policy to Islamic countries facing a Soviet threat, such as Afghanistan,
helped to roll-back the Soviets, but at a terrible cost.  The training of Islamic paramilitary
forces to carry-out terror attacks for political reasons, evolved into the unfolding nightmare
known as the war on terror.

In Afghanistan, the CIA armed, trained and supported Islamic "Gladios" who carried-out
Brzezenski's plans for staging terrorist attacks upon popular local Afghan tribal leaders, as a
means to instigate the widespread tribal warfare which eventually lured the Soviets to
intervene in December 1979.  (July 3, 1979, President Carter signed the first directive for
secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.)  Reagan whole-heartedly
supported the new terror politics as a weapon for attacking the Soviet empire, even expanding
the Islamic militant form of Gladio to all member states of the Soviet Union and their allies,
when he signed National Security Decision Directive 166 in March 1985.   In Central America,
his Gladio-like duplication trained paramilitary armies and death squads.  This policy became
known as the "El Salvador option," when George W. Bush embraced it in Iraq, making it the
centerpiece of his strategy for the "war on terrorism."

Note

1. The following three-part investigation from the BBC, entitled  "Timewatch – Operation
Gladio" can be seen at either YouTube (part 1 of 15 is embedded below),

http://youtube.com/watch?v=l2MOpkriXb4
 
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