AUDIO - Webster Tarpley, Gladio, P1 and P2 Lodges explained

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AUDIO - Webster Tarpley explains Operation Gladio

According to several whistleblowers Gladio was one of NATOs most Top Secret Operations ever. The plan was ostensibly to plant arms caches and train saboteurs to operate behind enemy lines should the Soviet Union invade Europe.

In fact these arms caches were used by Fascist officer cadres and specially selected NATO Special Forces soldiers to ferment terror in Europe that was then blamed on the far left.

At least three murderous terror groups associated with left-wing political causes in Europe have since been exposed as no more than NATO Intelligence 'front organisations'.

The authorities used the NATO bombings as an excuse to arrest the leaders of the legitimate political arms of these groups, including trades unions.

The Red Brigades in Italy; Baader Meinhof in Germany and Action Direct in Belgium.

Targets of these groups didn't appear to make sense politically.
The Strategy of Tension.

Not satisfied with waiting until the Soviets invaded, not even until the communists were elected in Italy, NATO decided to act against the left to ensure it did not get into power in the first place.

What was originally a legitimate defence initiative gradually turned into a systematic undermining of democracy in Italy during the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

The BBC Timewatch series covered Operation Gladio back in 1993 but copies of the three programmes are very hard to find.

Swiss historian Danielle Ganser's book 'NATO's Secret Armies' is one of the best resources available on Operation Gladio, the operational end of a clandestine Neo-Nazi intelligence group operating within the safety and secrecy of NATO in Brussels.

History of the P1 and P2 Masonic Lodges in Italy and political interference in Eurpoean Democracy post World War II.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/01/389147.html

http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=26169

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As radio4all has been down for several days just after this interview was posted

here is the link
http://www.bilderberg-mirror.org.uk/Tarpley_On_Gladio.mp3
http://www.bilderberg.org/Tarpley_On_Gladio.mp3

http://www.presstv.com/pop/wmp.aspx?id=34663

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Gladio – Death Plan For Democracy

by Peter Chamberlin


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.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8001

"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..."..........

Mass Arrests Expose Operations of Turkey’s “Deep State”