Nice Brings
To Mind Operation Gladio
By Paul Craig Roberts
July 18, 2016
"Information
Clearing House"
- Commentators who have learned to distrust official
explanations, such as
Peter Koenig
and
Stephen
Lendman
have raised questions about the Nice attack.
It does
seem odd that a lone person driving a large truck
can gain access to blocked off areas where French
people have assembled to watch the fireworks of
Bastille Day. It also seems odd that the event is
branded a terrorist one when the alleged
perpetrator’s family says that he was not at all
religious and had no religious motivation.
We will
never know. Once again the alleged perpetrator is
dead and conveniently left behind his ID.
It looks
like a permanent state of martial law in France will
be one consequence. This shutdown of society will
also dispose of the protests against capitalist
puppet Hollande’s repeal of France’s labor
protections. Those protesting the take-back of their
hard-earned rights will be closed down under the
martial law.
Amazing how
convenient the attack was for global capitalism, the
primary beneficiary of Hollande’s new “labor
reform.”
Questions
raised by Koenig and Lendman call to mind Operation
Gladio. Gladio is the codename for a secret NATO
operation set up by Washington after WWII as a
result of fear that the Red Army would overrun
Western Europe. Originally Gladio consisted of
hidden arms caches and an organization to conduct
guerrilla war against the Soviet occupying army.
Instead of
a Soviet Invasion, the threat that emerged was the
popularity of the Communist Party in France and
especially Italy. Washington was fearful that
communist parties would win enough votes to form a
government and that Washington’s Western European
Empire would be breached as these communist
governments aligned with Moscow.
Consequently, Gladio was turned against the European
communist parties. The Italian intelligence service
together with the CIA began bombing public places in
Italy, such as the Bologna train station in which
285 people were killed, maimed, and otherwise
wounded.
Gladio
operative Vincenzo Vinciguerra first revealed
Gladio’s existence during his 1984 trial for the
bombing of the Bologna train station in 1980.
Questioned about the Bologna bombing, Vinciguerra
said:
“There
exists in Italy a secret force parallel to the armed
forces, composed of civilians and military men, in
an anti-Soviet capacity that is, to organize a
resistance on Italian soil against a Russian army…A
secret organization, a super-organization with a
network of communications, arms and explosives, and
men trained to use them…A super-organization
which, lacking a Soviet military invasion which
might not happen, took up the task, on NATO’s
behalf, of preventing a slip to the left in the
political balance of the country. This they did,
with the assistance of the official secret services
and the political and military forces.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Vinciguerra
It was not
until 6 years later, 1990, that the prime minister
of Italy, Giulio Andreotti, officially acknowledged
the existence of Gladio.
Italian General Gerardo Serravalie commanded Italy’s
Gladio’s participation in the first half of the
1970s. Wikipedia reports that he testified that
those responsible for planning and coordination
“were the officers responsible for the secret
structures of Great Britain, France, Germany,
Belgium, Luxemburg, the Netherlands and Italy. These
representatives of the secret structures met every
year in one of the capitals… At the stay-behind
meetings representatives of the CIA were always
present.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
There were
many bombings with many civilian casualties from the
1960s through the mid-1980s. Vinciguerra said:
“You
were supposed to attack civilians, women, children,
innocent people outside the political arena, for one
simple reason–to force the Italian public to turn to
the state, turn to the regime and ask for greater
security. . . . This is the political logic behind
all the bombings. They remain unpunished because the
State cannot condemn itself.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaMUbCpaRyc
The
bombings were blamed on communist terrorist groups,
such as the Red Brigades and the Baader-Meinhof
gang, groups that might have been real or invented
intelligence covers to aid the discrediting of
European communist parties.
In 1984
Judge Felice Casson reopened a 12 year old case of a
car bomb in Peteano, Italy. The judge found that the
case had been falsified and blamed on the Red
Brigades, but had actually been the work of the
military secret service, Servizio Informazioni
Difesa (SID) in conjunction with Ordine Nuovo, a
right-wing organization created or co-opted by
Gladio. The police official who falsified the
investigation was sentenced to prison. Judge
Casson’s investigation concluded that the Peteano
bombing was part of a series of bombings carried out
by Gladio including the Milano Piazza Fontane
bombing, which killed 16 and injured 80, and the
1980 Bologna railway station bombing, which killed
85 and injured 200.
Based
on the Italian revelations, Belgium and Swiss
governments undertook investigations of Gladio
operations in those countries. The United States
government has denied any participation in the
bombings. However, Judge Casson’s search of the
archives of the Italian military secret service
turned up proof of the existence of the Gladio
network, and links to NATO and the United States.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Operation_Gladio
Western
peoples whose democracies have degenerated into
plutocracies are inoculated against the belief that
the government would kill its own citizens. Clearly
they need to learn about operation Gladio.
Is
Operation Gladio still alive and well? The terror
events of today are blamed on Muslims instead of on
communists. Is it possible that the terror attacks
in France and Belgium are Gladio operations?
Addendum:
This large
collection of photos from the UK Daily Mail of the
Nice attack —
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3691019/Several-people-injured-truck-crashes-crowd-Bastille-Day-celebrations-Nice.html
— does not seem to show any blood in the streets
where the carnage is reported to have happened or
any blood associated with what are reported to be
bodies. The white truck that is reported to be the
murder weapon does not seem to show any blood or
damage. A colleague once hit a deer, and his car was
totaled. How can there be 186 people hit and no
damage to the truck? Also, among the photos is a
video of police standing exposed a few feet from the
truck cab firing into the cab. For the police to
expose themselves to a lunatic reported to be armed
implies that he wasn’t armed or that the truck cab
was empty. Why didn’t the police just open the door
and capture him, or if he was armed wait until his
pistol ran out of ammunition? In all of these
attacks, the alleged perpetrator is always killed.
Note also that already there are names and photos of
the victims and a history of the perpetrator. How
can so many photos of so many different people be so
quickly collected and so much information collected
about the perpetrator? The media never ask public
authorities such questions or ever provide answers.
It seems the story is prepared and ready to go when
the event occurs, and that story is all we ever get.
And what do
we make of this:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-paris-bataclan-terror-attack-six-french-military-were-present-instructed-not-to-intervene-people-died/5534527
Why would armed French troops on the scene capable
of stopping the Bataclan carnage be told to stand
down?
Dr.
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate
editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist
for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and
Creators Syndicate. He has had many university
appointments. His internet columns have attracted a
worldwide following. Roberts' latest books are
The Failure
of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution
of the West,
How America
Was Lost,
and
The
Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
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