Richard Cottrell - Gladio: NATOs Dagger at the Heart of Europe: The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis

Gladio
NATOs Dagger at the Heart of Europe
The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis

by

Richard Cottrell

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Gladio
Natos Dagger at the Heart of Europe
The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis

Masquerading asa rear guard against Soviet invaders, NATOs covert forces warpedinto psychological and physical terrorism. These were the years oflead, in which hundreds perished in a synthetic war in the streetsof Europe. NATO commander General Lyman Lemnitzer ordered serialattacks on French president Charles de Gaulle. Sacked from thePentagon by John F. Kennedy for rank insubordination, then exiledto Europe, Lemnitzer reaped revenge in Dallas. The secret armiesforged bonds with organized crime and neo-fascists. NATO-backedcoups struck down governments in Greece and Turkey; the islandstate of Cyprus was sundered amid bitter genocide. Urban guerrillaslike the Red Brigades and Baader-Meinhof Gang were cunninglymanipulated. Italy gained a deep-state government, the ultra-secretP2 pseudo-Masonic lodge founded by former Blackshirts. Swedish PMOlof Palme and Italian ex-PM Aldo Moro were assassinated. Pope JohnPaul II was shot by Turkish gangsters who had regular work asGladio guns for hire. In 2009 a Gladio copy-cat outfit codenamedErgenekon came to light in Turkey. The shootings in Norway in July2011, and in Belgium, France and Italy in 2012, all bore theclassic stripe of Gladio false-flag operations.

In July 2011, acalm and studious risk-assessment analyst working for the SouthYorkshire Police was summarily fired. He had filed a report withhis superiors which openly contradicted the official narrativecompiled by the British authorities to explain the 7/7 LondonTransport bombings. Tony Farrells allotted task was to assess thedegree of risk posed by terrorism. Starting with a clean sheet, heworked to the electrifying conclusion that the London attacks were- in all probability - staged by the secret state. Furthermore, hedismissed the danger posed by Islamic extremists as virtuallynon-existent. Despite rigorous carpeting by his bosses, pleas,arm-twisting and threats, Farrell refused to budge. He wasconvinced the story of suicide bombers responsible for Londons dayof infamy was a concoction of monstrous lies. The sole purpose ofthe carnage on 7th July 2005 was to terrify thepopulation to such an extent that the United Kingdom could be movedcloser to a state of regimented tyranny.

As this bookwill explain, we have been here before. In the 1970s and 80s, thespectre of officially orchestrated terror stalked the Europeanlandscape. Gladio was the name of the Italian branch of the secretGuerrilla armies that NATO established to stay behind in theevent of a Russian invasion. Every NATO state, and some that werenot, had such a secretive force. As the prospect of an attack fromthe East receded, so did fear of the Soviets. To preserve the mythof the Red Peril, these secret, or sleeping, soldiers werereleased in a wave of synthetic violence against innocent Europeancitizens. It lasted two decades, the years remembered by Italiansas the anni di piombo - the years of lead.

The modern-daymanufactured war on terror comes from the same stable ofsynthetic violence. With the communist bogey exhausted, we are toldof an insidious new peril in our midst: the fearful prospect ofminarets and Sharia law marching across the European landscape,destroying Christian civilization. But for fear to work in atangible form, as was discovered in the years of lead, we must havethe visible impact of terror all around us. That is where we arenow.

Now, theauthors special thanks to those who have brought five years workto the printed page: foremost to my wife, Diana, for her brilliantefforts in assembling the work and her constructive aid andcriticism, always when it was needed. Special words for GiulioPiovesan, for his many splendid insights, and to Jeffrey Simmons ofLondon for his unflagging encouragement. And not least mypublisher, John-Paul Leonard, unrelenting symbol of independentinvestigative publishing. Finally, I shall certainly miss GordonLogans startling e-mails.

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The deep staterefers to a parallel secret government, organized by theintelligence and security apparatus, financed by drugs, andengaging in illicit violence, to protect the status and interestsof the military against threats from intellectuals, religiousgroups, and occasionally the constitutional government.

- ProfessorPeter Dale Scott

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An entirepost-war generation grew up in Europe and North America in theshadow of a war that seemed never to end. The spy novels that datefrom this period of perpetual uncertainty, notably John le Carrsfantastically rich plots, gave rise to its own counter-culture. Whywere we fighting this enormous game of shadow boxing on ourrespective sides of the Iron Curtain? Le Carr wrote about strangemen of the shadows - often rather sad individuals hatched in theEnglish public school system - essentially unhinged freaks, whichis very largely the nature of spies. The James Bond movies, freelyadapted from Ian Flemings novels, turned the Great Game to hotpursuit conducted in the name of cherchez la femme. Inretrospect they now seem enormously silly. One could not evendescribe it as an intelligence war to gain an accurate picture ofthe other sides capabilities. At a time in the 60s when theSoviets were supposed to possess a massive missile superiority overthe United States, we now know that they had exactly four rockets,of doubtful range.

When NikitaKhrushchev made his epic foray to the United States in 1959 for thefamous summit with President Richard Nixon, he flew in a largelyunproven new model of Tupolev long distance jet. It took off on aneducated guess by the flight crew that it carried sufficient fuelto complete the flight. The manufacturers and the Politburo held somuch faith in this magnificent example of Soviet enterprise that aline of trawlers stretched across the Atlantic, to fish the GeneralSecretary and his companions from the icy waters should anything goamiss. The Russians were bluffing. This was the essence of the ColdWar. The two potential combatants, the Soviets and the western campled by the United States, used up a great deal of bellicoselanguage, but kept their swords sheathed. If there had never beensuch a thing as the Cold War, we might have been spared RichardNixon, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. And, for that matterLeonid Brezhnev and the bumbling clown Nikita Khrushchev.

We were toldthat we were fighting for the ultimate truths and freedomsrepresented by western democracy. If we at any moment dropped ourguard, then the Soviet menace, coiled and ready to spring, wouldstrike. Only the ceaseless vigilance of the North Atlantic TreatyOrganisation spared us from the monstrous and tyrannical SovietEmpire. It was taken for granted by millions that the atomicmushroom cloud was tinged a bright hue of red.

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