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Claims (78)
Crypto AG supplied_arms_to
Italy book_quoted
“I found it very interesting that Venezuela was on that list, given that all of that crap goes on for all of those years, and we knew everything that was going on inside of Venezuela. But, of course, we have to act surprised. The U.S., NATO'…”
▶ Operation Gladio Malaysia @ 29:23
John F. Kennedy visited
Italy documented
“So we're on chapter 17, the parting glass. In the summer of 1963, President Kennedy flew to Europe for what would be the final overseas trip of his life. Although he had left Washington, the forces of political turmoil set loose by his pres…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 21 @ 1:09
Italy exposed
Operation Gladio documented
“It was completely funded by Belgium because that's their stay-behind branch. The last confirmed meeting of the ACC happened in October of 1990. And why? Let me tell you about that meeting. So on August 2nd, when Italy's Senate investigation…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium @ 39:42
Italy covered_up
Operation Gladio guest_asserted
“the actual Gladio operators dressed like they did with their little communist armbands and perpetrated bomb explosions and train stations and banks killing a lot of people. And the government kept blaming it on the Red Brigade when in fact …”
▶ HIGH ALERT! BONDI BEACH FALSE FLAG ATTACK AS POLICE STOOD DOWN FOR 20 MINUTES, STRATEGY OF TENSION @ 17:29
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“country and all of the machinations of Operation Gladio domestic terror. So let me also definitively say this, and I need to make a note in my intro because I do not have this annotated. So we talked about the anti-communist cloaking device…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1 @ 1:23:32
Italy carried_out_attack
Ndrangheta host_asserted
“assassinate them. Now, there was one exception. And I mean, there's one exception to that category. And that's when they took out the entire mafia drug networking of the Dinostra mafia family in Italy in 2019. They took out in a covert oper…”
▶ Assassination_Operation Gladio W_Brady, GofBPH, Alpha, CannCon&Brian @ 57:35
Luigi Einaudi installed
Italy documented
“I-E-I-N-A-U-D-I. He was the governor of the Bank of Italy and deputy prime minister. And I'm not sure how you say his last name, but he, the following year, would become the second president of the Italian Republic from 1948 to 1955. And th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 26:01
Benito Mussolini member_of
Italy host_asserted
“was what allowed these nefarious activities to come about. And this is the same arrangements that we talked about totalitarianism in Italy under Mussolini. They use the government as the muscle in order to facilitate the repression of the p…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 17 (18) @ 1:30:09
Counterintelligence Corps carried_out_attack
Italy book_quoted
“At a moment's notice, the resistance operations are credited with slowing down the German response to many different situations. And it also says that the army's counterintelligence operated a parallel program to the Jedburgh units in north…”
▶ The Colonels Corner - Book Club about real history @ 33:58
Benito Mussolini removed_from_power
Italy caller_asserted
“But there does seem to be this link going further back. It definitely is. And who got rid of the P1 and the Mafia in Italy? That was Mussolini. Yeah. That's wild. And then Mussolini's gone. It comes right back. There you go. I mean, we send…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 59:56
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Italy caller_asserted
“But maintain that. And that's why James Angleton had spent so much time in Italy prior to World War Two was because he grew up there because of his father's franchise of the National Cash Register Company. I have a direct response to Renee …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporation Coup (Venezuela) Part 3 @ 1:07:54
CIA funded
Italy book_quoted
“was in Italy in 1948. They spent the equivalent of, well, not the equivalent, they spent actually $5 million in 1948 dollars. You know, that's a ton of money. They spent $5 million to ensure that the Italian prime minister got elected that …”
▶ AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 54 - _JFK - OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING - 9_11 - STRATEGY OF TENSION_ - EP.414 @ 18:21
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Italy host_asserted
“influenced Swedish's development in the first decades after World War II as a party leader. He had, after the election in 1948, which is the same election the CIA interfered with in Italy in order to make sure they got a pro-NATO person in …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Sweden @ 51:41
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace funded
Italy documented
“starts describing how they're going to parse all of the landmass after World War I. And it talks about defining the borders of France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Romania, the Serb-Croatians, Slovenia state, Turkey.…”
▶ Shadow State 47_ Secret Societies 30; The Carnegie Legacy @ 1:08:06
CIA trafficked
Italy host_asserted
“was kind of a sticking point for the CIA because they wanted the Corsican mafia out of the heroin supply coming into America. So they wanted to be able to copy what was being done by the Corsican mafia and set it up in Sicily, Italy, under …”
▶ The Colonels corner president, secret wars chapter 14 continued @ 56:30
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“They were doing that to their own people disguised as communist, wearing the armbands and everything, in order to push the people away from any inclination to sympathize with communists and to seek their government for protection. And the m…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1 @ 8:32
Operation Gladio assassinated
Italy host_asserted
“They were murdering any reporter that reported on Operation Gladio. They were murdering senators. They even eventually murdered their prime minister as well. So there was no one off limits that if you did not toe the line, you would be murd…”
▶ Operation Gladio 101 Pt 1 @ 9:30
Benito Mussolini headed
Italy host_asserted
“And so we're lock, stock and barrel in bed with Italy while it was a fascist dictatorship under Mussolini.…”
▶ AlphaWarrior - ColonelTowner-Watkins OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 52 - _SUPER COMPUTERS @ 9:39
Italy member_of
NATO host_asserted
“were pushing hard for engaging Azerbaijan in a membership question. Quote, Turkey, Romania, Italy, Poland, and UK and the Baltic states, unquote, are among the member states also backing a fast track for Azerbaijan's NATO membership. I'm ju…”
▶ Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 13:51
SIFAR member_of
Italy host_asserted
“S-I-F-A-R, how they embedded it in their intel, how they embedded it in their army. And then we're going to dissect some of their actual terror events. And like the train station bombing, the five judges that they took out, the reporter tha…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 1:42:31
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“So, Benjamin, thank you. And that's a foot stomper for me, because as we just went through for Belgium in the 1980s and then into the 90s, it was unequivocally known because what happened in Italy, that Operation Gladio was a thing. It comm…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Belgium Part 2 @ 1:19:31
Ordine Nuovo carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“And, you know, even he said that because it now makes so much more sense. The fact that they called it the order and then you've got the new order over in Italy, which was responsible for some of the most heinous crimes in Italy associated …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 8 @ 42:45
Ted Shackley spied_on
Italy book_quoted
“And it's specifically talking about, as a matter of fact, this one specifically says, the name of it is Le Circle and the Struggle for the European Continent. It said, this is a quote. I'm not going to read out of the actual article because…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Open Mic Friday 2025-06-13 @ 18:29
Office of Strategic Services carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“And on April 15th, 1943, the OSS was charged with implementing plans for the Allied invasion of Sicily. And the other thing that they wanted him to do was basically contact all of his family in Sicily and help them stage an invasion into Si…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 30:36
Allen Dulles funded
Italy book_quoted
“However, Dulles fully emphasized projects for Germany, for the military junta of Poland, and for Mussolini's fascist state in Italy. The U.S. State Department documents assembled by Prussian provide some indication of the nature and scope o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #4 @ 23:41
Mafia trafficked
Italy host_asserted
“They were trafficking the drugs out of that area in Asia through the Corsican Mafia, some, not a lot, going through Sicily and into Cuba and then into the United States. Cuba was a linchpin. We tracked all of this to include William Polly's…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz @ 4:33
Karl Wolff carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“It took Wolf several days of high-stakes diplomacy before his maneuvers finally resulted in the surrender of German forces on the Italian front on May 2, 1945. By then, Hitler was dead, the German military machine was all but collapsed, and…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 35:20
P2 Masonic Lodge member_of
Italy book_quoted
“And in his words, the secret society that he's specifically referring to is the P2 Masonic Lodge. And how basically the P2 Masonic Lodge not only was set up in Italy, but it also had a chapter in Argentina. And that's fascinating given what…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview @ 5:56
Red Brigades framed
Italy book_quoted
“the Red Brigade was being set up by the Italian government. Then it talks about all of the different explosions that happened and terror on a train, the master plan, Moro, their prime minister. Anyway, that's false flag terrorism. He goes o…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Book Club Overview @ 13:38
Benito Mussolini headed
Italy documented
“And there's no other way to describe it in our current terminology, because most people use the word communism that they think that this one world government is a communist concept. It is not. The word fascism embraces oligarchs, just like …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Domestic Operation Gladio featuring_ Minutemen @ 1:10:24
CIA carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“that no one knows. All right, going on with the memo. B is to discredit the prestige and ideology of international communism and reduce the strength of its parties and other elements. And they did that in anything that they thought closely …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Presidents Secret Wars chap 7 @ 30:38
CIA carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“over the course of 10 years to interfere in the Italian election. So God knows the last time Italy actually had a free and fair election because the CIA has been meddling in it. The first time they did it was in 1948, the year after they we…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 1:42:49
William Colby appointed
Italy book_quoted
“I believe it was right after our good friend Claire Booth Luce, a.k.a. Mrs. Paint Chips. And he was, Protos writes that Colby was suspicious that, you know, sort of one faction of the CIA connected to Claire Booth Luce and Angleton were kin…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 1:18:17
Charles Poletti appointed
Italy host_asserted
“we get the introduction of a guy by the name of Vito Genovese. He happened to be Luciana's right-hand man and chief translator. He also was at the army headquarters in Naples. The New York former lieutenant governor, a guy by the name of Ch…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 31:33
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“And so they blew his airplane up. And those are the kind of things that they did in Italy as part of Operation Gladio. And those are the things I want to go over and at least do enough due diligence here because of all the information that …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy @ 1:43:52
Golpe Borghese attempted_coup_against
Italy host_asserted
“embedded in them just to keep track of them. Preparations for the bombings were made in an isolated house near Treviso. And on December 7th, 1970, there was a Gladio unit launched the Golpe Borghese, which was the Borghese coup, an attempt …”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 3 @ 1:14:33
Operation Gladio member_of
Italy caller_asserted
“and never be able to zoom out and look at the macro level of how that particular cell ties into the entire operation. Yeah, so if I go to a European country, you know, they had all kinds of cells in Italy.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Liberia @ 1:29:00
Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata appointed
Italy book_quoted
“It is not a surprise to see Italy and the U.S. basically behind these efforts. The diplomat Busino was sent to the guide of the embassy of Tripoli in 2019 by the…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Libya-Benghazi Part 2 @ 20:26
Operation Gladio founded
Italy host_asserted
“kind of the conversation, because that's basically what it was. It wasn't even really an interview, just kind of went all over the place. And obviously she has lots of interest given her family background and the fact that a lot of Operatio…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 16 (17) @ 2:21
Benito Mussolini installed
Italy host_asserted
“They want a version of fascism that is very close to the totalitarian model that was implemented in Italy by Mussolini. And the difference is that they all still have a job. So you notice that if the government owns everything, those guys a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner – Presidents’ Secret Wars Chapter 11 cont’d @ 1:18:29
Eugene Dolman carried_out_attack
Italy documented
“in Argentina and extradited to stand trial in Italy for his role in the massacre. Haas received a life sentence, but by then he was an old man. And because of that and his failing health, he didn't have to go to prison. Unsurprisingly, afte…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 34:25
Benito Mussolini headed
Italy host_asserted
“The the communist Red Brigade wasn't really communist at all. It had been set up by the same exact people and touted as a communist entity to get and not even actually communist. They touted it as a workers rights group because they had jus…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Twentieth Century Fund @ 1:31:36
Hassan Dosti collaborated_with
Italy documented
“Offie pushed strongly for the nationalist Hassan Dosti, who had collaborated with the Italian fascists during the war. So they're fascists, not Nazis. Dosti proved to lack the political support to exercise this role. Offie himself soon left…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 5 @ 46:57
West Germany recruited
Italy guest_asserted
“And after the war, Germany reorganized this network. They even took over a lot of spies from Italy. And then they caused this communist craze in the United States. Everyone who was against Germany immediately was a communist. And that's how…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Korea Final Day @ 1:51:17
Benito Mussolini headed
Italy documented
“and basically allowed to perform for the Politburo. So fascism is basically what Mussolini did. And fascism, and Spain was, Portugal was, and that's basically what they set up throughout all of South America when they did these coups. Fasci…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Viet Cong vs Viet Minh; Charlie @ 1:16:21
Operation Gladio member_of
Italy host_asserted
“Western European interest, you know, against the Soviet threat. So, Gladio was officially launched in 1947, and its first major operations, or forays, were in Italy. Let's face it, at this time there's a problem. Because Gladio consisted of…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Interview w_Paul Williams author of Operation Gladio @ 44:41
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Italy book_quoted
“And at least in Italy's case, they actually admitted they did it. They admitted they killed a reporter because he was onto them. It was later found that they blew up an airplane to kill one of the government officials that was doing stuff t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa Files Part 18 OKL bombing pt II @ 20:04
David Hoadley Thorne appointed
Italy host_asserted
“They're a recruiting center there. Okay. That was one Bonesman. That's crazy. Next guy we're going to talk to is a guy I've been talking about. It's a guy by the name of David Hoadley Thorne, T-H-O-R-N-E. Golan Bones, class of 1966. And he'…”
▶ Operation Gladio meets Secret Societies with WarHamster Bady 2025-05-22 @ 48:00
Committee of 40 funded
Italy book_quoted
“And the Glomar Explorer, which was an attempt to raise a Soviet missile submarine from the floor of the Pacific Ocean, were discussed by the 40 Committee. A project to spend $10 million to influence the Italian elections again in 1972, much…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 33 (35) @ 16:55
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“In the past, they went in and they've committed terror attacks in there to scare the hell out of them. They did it in Italy. They did it in Chile. They did it, you know, all over. They did it in Britain, Iran, Sweden. I don't know about the…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror by Joe Trento Chap 2 @ 1:43:54
CIA funded
Italy book_quoted
“Next, in terms of level of Langley's involvement in Latin America in the 1960s, they were on record as being involved in political action in Bolivia and Chile. And, well, all of them. Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador, Brazil, all of them. The mos…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe For Democracy Part 53 (55) @ 43:16
SISMI member_of
Italy book_quoted
“This is, however, probably an oversimplistic view of the clandestine units. At the top, there was speculation that there was a secret intelligence detachment, or in the case of Italy, what was referred to as SISMI, which was the secret...…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 12:15
Benito Mussolini member_of
Italy host_asserted
“They control the government. If you go back to pre-war Italy, that's what they want to set up for everything. Having a totalitarian government that still recognizes the oligarchs in there because Mussolini did not get rid of the oligarchs i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Great Pretense Part 2 @ 1:36:15
James Jesus Angleton spied_on
Italy book_quoted
“And that's why Angleton spent a lot of time in Italy before he joined the OSS and then the CIA, because his dad was spying and providing information to the State Department based on his franchise in Italy. And that is all very well document…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #4 @ 18:52
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“has really fed into this information war that we're a part of in exposing Operation Gladio. Because it was people from, remember the guy that used to call in every day from Germany on his way home and was telling us about the Gladio operati…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 2:45:16
Operation Gladio funded
Italy host_asserted
“This is this is very similar to if you go back to when we were in Italy and the expose of Operation Gladio there in the 1990s, where you found people were just that actually were terrorists paid by Operation Gladio bombing, whatever. They o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers by Hagedorn Part 4 @ 48:57
CIA funded
Italy host_asserted
“There was a centrist, moderate left government. Oh my God. And it was dangerous. Truman's administration went into high gear because that's of course the intelligence they were looking for to do what they were going to do anyway. And they c…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 4 (3) @ 49:32
P2 Masonic Lodge front_for
Italy host_asserted
“Western Europe. The propaganda lodges included France's P1, Spain's P3, and for other purposes, there was an alleged P7 in Belgium, all collaborating with each other. P2 was said to have constituted a shadow government in the Italian state.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 43:22
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“thinking about it. And I'm like, well, shit. In Sicily, they gunned down those judges and prosecutors on the steps of the courthouse. Oh, shit. And there was a reporter that was killed. And there were all of these people around the country …”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast #1 @ 1:17:18
Italy held_trial_on
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“patterns goes, because we know more about, and it will definitely be at least a two-day presentation. There's so much information about it. At the end of Italy, there's also some good news about it as well, because they have began holding p…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Sweden @ 2:09:43
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Italy host_asserted
“Italy, in NATO, why the CIA was formed, you know, for this process, and of course the alliance with the Sicilian, you know, mafia, Lucky Luciano, and the drug running involved in all of it. And he basically walked everybody through the moti…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 5 @ 2:02:12
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“and did investigations, they actually found out that most of the quote-unquote Red Brigade activity was the fascist, as part of Gladio operators, had infiltrated this workers' rights movement that got labeled as the Red Brigade and had orch…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 2:05:38
World Anti-Communist League member_of
Italy host_asserted
“But you didn't want anybody to know that you were actually at war with the rest of the world. That entity would look like the World Anti-Communist League. And it would incorporate the Japanese because they were fascist. It would incorporate…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 4 @ 8:14
Ottoman Empire overthrew
Italy host_asserted
“to get the Orthodox Pope and the Catholic Pope to see eye to eye so that we could actually launch the first crusade. Like, like they were so caught up in this power that their church is right. And all the other churches are wrong, you know,…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Zaire-Congo 1975-1978 @ 1:50:06
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“In Italy, they set up what would proverbially be called the government entity running Operation Gladio that are going to bomb people to terrorize them, their own citizens, and manipulate them into doing what they want to do and also influen…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Twentieth Century Fund @ 1:30:44
Reinhard Gehlen spied_on
Italy host_asserted
“Well, and I don't know how recently you've touched on this, but Galen surrendered to Allied forces in Italy. They put an army uniform on him, sent him to Virginia during World War II, where he met with Dulles. Yeah, I've covered that. I kno…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 9 @ 1:17:45
Italian Mafia trafficked
Italy guest_asserted
“of many of the pieces that I now know exist. For example, and I use this example often, the mafia inside of Italy in 2019, they took their biggest hit ever. And for those of you that have studied the heroin trade, you know that the mafia, e…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 13 @ 1:21:56
CIA funded
Italy host_asserted
“she was intricately involved in using CIA money to sway elections inside of Italy.…”
▶ Bank of Credit and Commerce Finale with War Hamster @ 4:45
D'Nostris family trafficked
Italy guest_asserted
“It started during his first term when he took down the D'Nostris family in Italy. They were running the actual labs that refine opium into like number four grade heroin. They had control of that entire process and the entry of most drugs fr…”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE SPOTLIGHT' False Flags w Colonel Towner • The Finale @ 33:06
P2 Masonic Lodge funded
Italy host_asserted
“and of which, you know, the Montreal-based Mondial thing through the P2 Lodge was influential also in Italy. So, yeah, Colby is, you know, definitely, you know, a figure that needs to be looked at, you know, for many different reasons.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 1:19:17
Catholic Church laundered_money_for
Italy guest_asserted
“Well, funny that you speak about NATO. That is my next book, Colonel, is NATO's Secret Army, Operation Glanio and Terrorism in Western Europe. Maybe I'll have the answers. Oh, good. My question actually is, okay, talking about moving the mo…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Indonesia Part 2 @ 1:28:19
Red Brigades carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“The communists don't have anything to do with this. The Nazis were not communist. You don't believe they have similar ideologies? They're not communist. The Nazis were fascist. Well, Colonel, they did have the Red Brigades and stuff like th…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 47 (49) @ 1:11:24
Operation Gladio carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“which are all part of Operation Gladio and how they were able to do all these coups and overthrow governments and black covert operations all over the world. They funded them with those three major pieces of it. And the very first, when I s…”
▶ Operation Gladio - State of the GOP and Tibet @ 1:35:39
CIA funded
Italy host_asserted
“I mean, we saw in the one, I don't remember if it was Guatemala or Nicaragua, where the guy said it was cheaper to buy a mule than it was a senator. So they literally just go in and buy the government. And when they spent, you know, $5 mill…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Congo and Belgium’s role @ 59:13
Telecom Italia carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“that there was a massive spying scandal, eavesdropping scandal, which had been going on basically since like 1997 through 2005 to 2006. And they had actually tapped the phones of over 5,000 politicians. I'll tell you what, you'll be really …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #9 b @ 2:15:49
Operation Gladio assassinated
Italy host_asserted
“to renegotiate their concession because they were a major importer of Libyan oil. And he wanted to give them 50-50. Well, they blew his ass out of the air. They blew his airplane up on his way home. That was an Operation Gladio event.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 8 @ 1:15:52
Lucky Luciano attempted_coup_against
Italy caller_asserted
“Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello and Meyer Lansky ran the commission. And as the colonel said that Lucky Luciano was bailed out of prison to help overthrow the Italian government to retain a American friendly leader. So, yes, it's all connecte…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Congo and Belgium’s role @ 1:48:45
Alfred Ulmer carried_out_attack
Italy host_asserted
“Basically fits the paradigm of those going in the OSS. He joined the Navy, but ends up in the OSS. He also, after the OSS is disbanded, he joins the CIA and he goes to Turkey, Egypt, Italy and Austria. And of course, we know Turkey.…”
▶ The Colonels corner president’s secret war chapter 8 @ 1:15:08
Mentions (120)
▶ 8:43
OK, it was a way because they had cash registers all around the world and they had franchises like the one they had in Italy under Mussolini. And do you know who hoping who owned that franchise? James Jesus Angleton's dad. So James Angleton…
▶ 9:08
who is obviously of CIA fame. He's the guy that ran the Mossad and the Vatican desk at the CIA at the same time. He's like notorious for everything in relationship to the CIA. So his dad was both the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy. N…
▶ 9:39
In Italy. Did we have a lot of business in Italy? Well, as it turns out, we did. And so we're lock, stock and barrel in bed with Italy while it was a fascist dictatorship under Mussolini. That ought to blow your mind. But there's more. So J…
▶ 10:03
was the franchise owner for National Cash Register in Italy. So James Angleton grew up in Italy. And it just so happens at the beginning of creating Operation Gladio, guess where he was at? Italy. Shocker. James Angleton. Oh, and there's a …
▶ 1:11:14
One, let's see, where would that be? Germany. One's probably in the Netherlands. That's the Netherlands up there. And then Italy, but not in Rome, unless it's just generically. Oh, yeah, that other one's in Rome. One of the 17 or 11. The on…
▶ 1:11:38
This one's 11 where I'm circling around. Yeah, that one's in Rome. That one's in Rome. And then the one that looks like it's got F on it, I can't really tell what those things are. But that one is northern Italy, like around, oh, that may b…
▶ 7:59
So this was not peanuts. This was a very important objective for them. And so what I did was I went back through a couple of his books and kind of pieced together a kind of running synopsis of this. And I wanted to share it with everybody t…
▶ 9:51
People that they had framed, not unlike the Gretchen Whitmer type event. And so that kind of set the tone and those were all discovered as Operation Gladio. Once in 1990, Gladio got revealed in Italy. And it says that those combination of b…
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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 the quote unquote communist foe. A secret organiza…
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in the political balance of the country. And they did with assistance of official secret services and political and military forces. And he said in one of his books that Gladio's connection to sustained false flag violence against, again, i…
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that the incriminated organization was formed under a secret agreement with the United States in the framework of NATO. Former Italian Defense Minister Paolo Taviani told a magistrate, Casson, and Casson, C-A-S-S-O-N, was the guy that did a…
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like the lead guy in exposing Gladio, during a 1990 investigation that during his time in office from 55 to 58, the Italian Secret Service were bossed and financed by the boys in Via Veneto, which is a designation for the building that the …
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In 2000, Italian Secret Service general said that the CIA gave its tactic approval to a series of bombings in Italy in the 1970s to sow instability and keep communists from taking power. The CIA wanted, through the birth of an extreme natio…
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That's what that means. To stop Italy from what they referred to as sliding to the left. Italy wasn't sliding to the left. What that is code word for is they wanted to stamp out any ability for Italy to function on their own. They wanted th…
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was in Italy in 1948. They spent the equivalent of, well, not the equivalent, they spent actually $5 million in 1948 dollars. You know, that's a ton of money. They spent $5 million to ensure that the Italian prime minister got elected that …
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Turkey called their gray wolf units. Um, but Peter Del Scott goes on to say that he thinks it's, um, very simplistic to, um, say that the Italian version of the strategy of tension was just on a super organization, which took up the, and ba…
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They implicated not only the chief of their intelligence services, but Semi and Gladio operators, all working in conjunction with the Italian mafia and the Italian Masonic Lodge, which we affectionately, well, they're referred to as P2 or P…
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Of the Nazi stay behind units. Right. Under Reinhard Galen and Hitler. Well then didn't we just recently find out. From Argentina that Hitler didn't die. That he was actually living in Argentina. So all of this. All over the news. Like craz…
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And then, of course, that led us to all kinds of rabbit holes. Actually, that's how I found Jim Jones. There's these cells everywhere. And that's how we found Waco. What did we find at Waco? A cache of weapons and crates that were from Ital…
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assassinate them. Now, there was one exception. And I mean, there's one exception to that category. And that's when they took out the entire mafia drug networking of the Dinostra mafia family in Italy in 2019. They took out in a covert oper…
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prosecutors, the defense attorneys, the family members of everybody involved. Because in the past, when Italy had tried to do this, and frankly, this happens all over the world, the entire families are held hostage, blah, blah, blah. There'…
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And his wife shows up in Operation Gladio as the Italian working for the State Department in Italy at the very beginnings of Operation Gladio, which we know was, you know, just because of the exposure Operation Gladio being revealed in Ital…
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inside the United States and Italy. It also said, quote, at the very least, there was nobody putting together all of the pieces. You could make a credible case that somebody told them not to do anything about BCCI, unquote. That was Schumer…
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This is why, and it's what Turkey did with the gray wolves. It's what a gender press did in Portugal. It's what the Gladio was in Italy. All of these things is to train terrorists, dress them up as somebody else and create havoc in order to…
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investigation that Italy did in 1990 into Operation Gladio, I should say it was released in 1990. What's the ACC? Hang on, back up a little. What's the ACC? Clandestine Committee. Say that again? Allied Clandestine Committee. Okay, my mista…
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Then the rest of them combined. They were not our enemy. But the day after World War Two, we're setting up stay behind anti-communist units because they're now our enemy, which makes zero sense. So what was the right? Well, I can tell you u…
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It's all of them. They're all in the Jesuits, the Freemasons. So in Italy, the entire Gladio operation was hid under a Masonic lodge called P2. But that wasn't the case in other organizations. P2 had a subordinate unit in Argentina, and tha…
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I just go and do my search on Fort Hood history. And do you know Fort Hood's right down the street? Do you know who was the commander at Fort Hood when Waco happened? Wesley Clark. I'm like, oh, son of a bitch, because I know all about Wesl…
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It started during his first term when he took down the D'Nostris family in Italy. They were running the actual labs that refine opium into like number four grade heroin. They had control of that entire process and the entry of most drugs fr…
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They did a special operation. It took them about two years. They had to build underground facilities to have the trials in and sequester everybody there because they have no trouble killing you. Wait, who did that? Who built the underground…
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So when I took history class – when I took U.S. history in the 1990s, what we learned in school was the CIA gets set up. The U.S. wins World War II. The U.S. is trying to keep Italy in NATO as well as a couple of other countries inside of N…
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So we try to coax them in using the Marshall Plan and everything. And yeah, there's these communists out there every once in a while, and yeah, they're trying to influence stuff in Italy, and sometimes they're even doing terror attacks and …
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ground invasion into Cuba. Because for those of you who don't know, Cuba was being used as a processing place for the CIA drug trafficking out of the Golden Triangle through either the Corsican Mafia in France or the Sicilian Mafia in Sicil…
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These people that they use as assets as opposed to paid agents on their payroll perform all of these functions. So they had, like in Gladio in Italy, they literally infiltrated a workers' union that had set itself up as the Red Brigade, as …
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The secret Vatican bank that was used to money launder billions and billions of black ops, weapons, humans, drugs, traffic, cash. It also exposes a global mafia. In Italy, it was called P2, which is also found in Argentina, or at least it w…
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There's a lot more to this one. I really like this one because what he did, if you look through his book, he goes through every country except for, he talks about the secret war in the U.S., Great Britain, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Be…
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First of all, Operation Gladio, where that name came from is Gladio is a short sword or a dagger. And that was the word, the name that was given to the operation in Italy. And since Italy is the only country to date to do an extensive inves…
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that motivate you to move away from what they don't want you to choose into something that at least temporarily appears to be more attractive to you or less painful. And by doing that, and the best example of that is in Italy, when they wer…
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They were doing that to their own people disguised as communist, wearing the armbands and everything, in order to push the people away from any inclination to sympathize with communists and to seek their government for protection. And the m…
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That's just a matter of fact. In Italy, they also called it years of lead, as in lead bullets, because having lived in Italy when a lot of this was being exposed, it was not uncommon to turn on the nightly news and see five or six judges or…
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during World War II, which is where they initially deployed all of the stay-behind units. So they can absolutely, 100%, and they're correct in saying it, that werewolf units were only deployed in Greater Germany. That is, in fact, true, bec…
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doing all kinds of crazy things. And they corresponded, they spent a lot of time apart. And there was a lot of correspondence between the two of them, basically articulating everything that I just said. But I did want to share with you kind…
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Um, and so he just thought it was a good idea to pick his brain about financing. And so he, um, the next time we're in like a week later, he goes, oh, don't worry about the financing. I put up my, um, family house in Italy. Um, and I'm like…
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And he goes, oh, it's an island off the coast. I'm like, island? Is it Sardinia or Capri? What island? And he goes, no, it's, you know, it's between actually those two. And he goes, it's called Ponza. And I'm like, what? Ponza as in Otto Sk…
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of all of the assassins and the kidnapping and all of that other stuff. He set up camps all over Franco Spain to do these terror training camps. They were also on Sardinia, just off the coast of Italy, and they were also on the Canary Islan…
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I mean, it is important, but we're just going to go with the fact that initially they believed it. I have my doubts at this point, especially with them calling their World Anti-Communist League that, when in fact it was just a Gladio Operat…
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over 600 units and like 400 weapon caches. That's a crap load. And when they, because the red threat never materialized, as a matter of fact, they had so few actual communists in Italy, they had to dress up like communists to even pretend i…
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Are there white nationalists? Absolutely. Are they the greatest threat to America today? Absolutely not. So that is the exact same thing. The exact same people in 1950 was telling the people in Italy, there's these communist people. They're…
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The operation in Chicago decades ago took the better part of 10 years. And anyone that was operating in the middle of it, because everything was compartmentalized, no one knew anything about anybody else. So they had, and they just did the …
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to the Christian Democrat Party. Instead of actually calling them a fascist, they are now going to have a new name. We're going to call them Christian Democrats. And the Christian Democrats agreed collectively in Italy and Germany, France, …
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The 2019 period and 2020, just prior to their current president being able to be elected in what appears to be one of their most fair elections ever, which is probably why one of the CIA approved candidates did not get elected. The same thi…
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And that coincided with the 2019 operation that took down an entire crime family that operated in the southern part of Italy around where I was stationed that had been there for over 150 years. And that crime family is gone. They were all i…
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basically led his forces into Kabul. And he had basically his senior general was named Abdul Karim Mostagni. And they basically overthrew the monarchy while the monarchy was…
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but definitely have done some research on it. But I think it's too difficult to tell based on what everything, all the other stuff that was going on in Afghanistan at the time. So the king decided not to retaliate and he abdicated the thron…
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were pushing hard for engaging Azerbaijan in a membership question. Quote, Turkey, Romania, Italy, Poland, and UK and the Baltic states, unquote, are among the member states also backing a fast track for Azerbaijan's NATO membership. I'm ju…
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I'm familiar with Daniele Ganza's work on the investigations in Italy and whatever's related to that, and specifically concerning mostly the attack on the Bologna train station that killed 100 people. So that was uncovering all the networks…
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stay-behinds. That's in Daniele Ganser's work. So any references or something like that? Thank you. Sure. There are several books that talk about the stay-behind unit concept, and I use the term Operation Gladio, as most people do, as a gen…
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display in a fruit stand of oranges. And I'm like, what the hell? So several months go by and we're doing all of this investigation into Operation Gladio. And I come across an obscure article that was written in Italy during one of the inve…
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display in a fruit stand of oranges. And I'm like, what the hell? So several months go by and we're doing all of this investigation into Operation Gladio. And I come across an obscure article that was written in Italy during one of the inve…
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the quote unquote communists that may be running around inside of Belgium because, you know, the Nazis had just completely taken over. And I'm sure they allowed communists to roam around there. I mean, the whole idea of this is just so craz…
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Several documents established that during his tenure that all of this stuff was basically set up. Belgium did a very limited investigation. It was very limited, unlike the one that was done in Italy.…
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It was completely funded by Belgium because that's their stay-behind branch. The last confirmed meeting of the ACC happened in October of 1990. And why? Let me tell you about that meeting. So on August 2nd, when Italy's Senate investigation…
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The media immediately went to all of the other heads of state within the European theater and said, hey, do we have one of these? And of course, they all go, no, no, no, we don't know anything about that. But it just so happens that was the…
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um andriotti from italy basically gets confronted about um and he's sick and tired he's getting um raked over the coals uh because all of his shit's coming out and all of these um indignant uh counterparts of his all over europe's like no n…
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The personal file existed in the CIA and MI6 headquarters and basically was like their major roster. It had the real name of the Gladio, his work, his address, his family, and some other information, including a complete set of fingerprints…
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in the Italian Gladio network were completely anonymous to the higher ups. All they kept and maintained was a list of two people per unit that were in charge of that unit because they didn't want to know who the rest of the people were. So …
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He also said that they used helicopters and conducted mission dropping blackout missions throughout Belgium. And it says most stay behind agents knew very little about the larger framework, which is kind of consistent with the way Italy did…
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I find that really interesting because the Corsican Mafia is the one that controlled all the drug networks for the CIA, too. I'm sure that's just a coincidence. They also did a bunch of these exercises and training on Sardinia. When we did …
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worked remarkably well, according to the inspectors, and they stated with surprise, quote, one must note two points regarding these exercises. First of all, we are dealing with an international network which would evacuate clandestinely a p…
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you should probably understand what's being done in your name in these countries to understand the risk of you traveling to those countries. Because if we're actively in the middle of an operation, I don't know, let's just say in Italy for …
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The first one was to organize gangs to do hold up of hostages, you know, killing. The second one was to organize the so-called left movement, who will do a terrorist attempt just to make you believe that it is the left that's doing the murd…
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Senator, one of the senators also cautioned in his wording and refrained from accusing the United States directly because they're chicken shits, while he insisted that the terror had been seen as an anti-communist political context. And the…
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So, Benjamin, thank you. And that's a foot stomper for me, because as we just went through for Belgium in the 1980s and then into the 90s, it was unequivocally known because what happened in Italy, that Operation Gladio was a thing. It comm…
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And from the people in the government that doesn't know what's going on, because remember, there's police forces within police forces. So the police forces, that's the internal Gladio cell, will arrest them, put them in jail for protection.…
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The Tern School of Application in 1974, where he graduated in Military Strategic Sciences. Have you heard of that school at all? What's the name of the school again? It was called Modena Military Academy, and then the Tern School of Applica…
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from the Corsican Mafia in France and the Sicilian Mafia in Sicily. They staged, they used Cuba as both an arms trafficking location under the government of Batista, who we installed, and they were running drugs into Harlem.…
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And Marcinikas, when he got caught doing all of this, because obviously the Vatican Bank's not auditable by the Italian government. But in the 1990s, when all of this stuff started breaking out and they found out the Vatican was creating fr…
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murder of the banker Calbee because they hung him up on a bridge in London for all to see. And some of the other Sedona that was like, you know, God's banker and all these other people. When that stuff all started hitting the fan, Marcinicu…
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of local officials, which they failed every audit the Vatican has. Marcinikas, who is an American, comes back to America, retires in Phoenix. And the Italian government, once they've decided that he did do all these front companies and all …
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They were killing people for what reason? So we had to fight communism, communism, communism. So they trained a secret army, a civilian army in Italy to bomb civilians and then blame it on the communists. The communists at that time were th…
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But civilians died in massacres, and they blamed it on communists, and it was denied and denied, and eventually it came out. It was called Operation Gladio. Gladio is a – Gladius is the sword of the Roman soldier. How did they kill the peop…
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The years of lead or like the decades of lead, something like that, because people are just getting killed all the time. I don't know how many constitutions Italy's had since World War Two, but it's it's probably over two dozen at this poin…
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My response to him was, NATO and the collective intelligence agencies have worked outside the quote-unquote system to carry out assassinations, overthrow governments, and the reason they have NATO secret armies, Operation Gladio. They didn'…
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Two of them were in Washington, D.C., and blew up the Chilean ambassador that got stranded here when the CIA overthrew Allende in Chile. On the streets of Washington, D.C., terror attack blew up the visiting ambassador to another country, t…
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I mean, we saw in the one, I don't remember if it was Guatemala or Nicaragua, where the guy said it was cheaper to buy a mule than it was a senator. So they literally just go in and buy the government. And when they spent, you know, $5 mill…
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Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello and Meyer Lansky ran the commission. And as the colonel said that Lucky Luciano was bailed out of prison to help overthrow the Italian government to retain a American friendly leader. So, yes, it's all connecte…
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To fight the danger of communism, France has organized cells of restrained but efficient policemen. Those were Gladio operators, by the way. And Italy is erecting such anti-communist police squads under the control of the interior minister …
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I have yet I've been doing this for almost a year to find one example where they actually use them to fight communists, because in each and every case, even in Italy with the Red Brigades, it was later found through court documents that mos…
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As it is in all countries of the Atlantic Alliance, the former CIA agent Philip Agee later commented on the secret Cold War in France. For nowhere in Western Europe, with the exception of Italy, were the Communists as strong as in France in…
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The plans revealed that the essential component of the secret war of plan blue conspirators had intended to escalate the already tense political climate in France by committing acts of terror. Sounds like Operation Northwood. Blame them on …
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Just like what they did in Italy when we went through Italy in the infiltration of these groups, you don't even know that these groups aren't actually created as part of a CIA ops. So they're doing that to scare the hell out of you from tal…
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Peace and Liberty carried out CIA operations in psychological warfare in Western Europe and spread anti-communist propaganda by printing posters, sponsoring radio programs, publishing printed material in various outlets, and organizing occa…
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the Italian Senate investigation into Gladio and secret warfare found that Peace and Liberty had operated on direct orders of NATO. Allegedly, French Foreign Minister George Dibault, D-I, or excuse me, B as in Bravo, I-D-A-U-L-T, had in 195…
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It detailed how political paramilitary and psychological operations shall be employed according to the directive in order to reduce the strength of the Communist Party in Italy and also in order to reduce the strength of the Communist Party…
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Because, I mean, obviously I was in Italy at the beginning of that and was involved in the NATO response for all of the search and rescue people that came from the European theater and from the U.S. actually camped out at San Vito, Italy, w…
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family gang, over 300 people in Italy, which we will talk to when we get to Italy, were arrested, tried and prosecuted in a secret proceedings that happened in 2019. That is just one. There was another big bust in Argentina that happened in…
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that we will do tomorrow, and then we're going to move on to Europe. Europe is, and we did promise our Swedish population that we will kick off with Sweden, but I think what you're going to see, again, because we have done so much with the.…
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investigation part of Italy. We will spend multiple days on Italy just because there's so much information. And one of the telltale signs that I lived through when I lived in Italy in 1990 was the execution of judges. That is one of the thi…
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And then we're going to move on to Europe. And in honor of our Swedish brethren, we're going to start off that area with Sweden. I was kind of wanting to start it off with Italy because it is so vast. But Sweden is a much smaller footprint.…
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for basically how the rest of them were ran. And it is the one we have the most information on. It will probably be at least a two if not three day because again, we have the most information. It is the most extensive investigation ever don…
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But I just wanted to let you know I'm doing it a little chronologically backwards, but I had my reasons for doing it. So anyway, because you're going to need to know what the results of what they did in South America as I show you how they …
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of the people massacred in South America, especially Chile, those people, because Pinochet ended up getting arrested in England for the murder of Italian and European citizens. And those, both in Spain and in Italy, they held court in absen…
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And we've come to realize a lot of them were on islands that had really weird stuff that happened to them. Like if you look at Sardinia, when we were looking into Italy, Sardinia for the southern part of Europe was one of their gladio train…
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They're not going to come forward. They know that's a death warrant to them. So there's lots of inherent risk there. There's no upside to it for them personally. It's going to be a martyr situation where they know they've signed their death…
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The M Fund that I just talked about that was part of Golden Lily, Nixon gave the M Fund management that was being managed by Senglib out of the CIA to Japan if Japan would give him money for the 1960s to run his campaign. And they did, and …
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cadres of Operation Gladio operators all over the world. They cycle them in through these training camps in Spain, on the Canary Islands, and off the coast of Italy and Sardinia. And so a lot of this focused around the residual capability o…
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you know, the 40s and everything when they involved the Vatican? I would say they could be. I don't know. You know, that's the thing about, I focus on the history part of it. There's nothing that changed in the Vatican that would say, I mea…
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that they finally agreed to. Otherwise, Italy was going to withdraw their special treaty that they did that gave them their sovereignty if they didn't agree to an annual audit. But ever since they did that, when Italy found out about Operat…
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They did also recall all of their liquid assets back to basically the homeland or home base. What was it, August of last year or maybe two years ago? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what that signifies. That would make it sound like they've lost t…
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But you didn't want anybody to know that you were actually at war with the rest of the world. That entity would look like the World Anti-Communist League. And it would incorporate the Japanese because they were fascist. It would incorporate…
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extensively about seven of them to include basically mowing down all of his bodyguards, blowing up his car, wrecking his car, killing other bodyguards. Just Italy, just the deep dive that I did on Italy alone. There were so many dead bodies…
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We've revealed that time and time again. They killed multiple reporters in Germany, in Italy, in Portugal, in Belgium, in London, all because they were reporting on Operation Gladio before it got exposed. You know, the octopus, Danny Castel…
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outside of Europe to include inside of Europe. But it is so large that it's really difficult to get your head around the entire operation. It is massive. And whether you're talking about an attack in Bologna, Italy, or other attacks that in…
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Who are these people, though? Are they American soldiers? Who exactly are the people that were scattered in all of these disparate places? So the concept was to take normal, everyday citizens in a country. And I'll specifically talk about I…
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Italy was the only one that did an in-depth investigation. And that's the reason why this entire network is now referred to as Operation Gladio, because every country called it something else. Like in Portugal, they called it the Ginter Pre…
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Italy was the only one that did an in-depth investigation. And in Italy, what they did to recruit these people is they went into towns and they were all like 15 people. And they were given caches of weapons to include rifles, C4 explosives,…
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And they were buried in normally a wooded area so that when they got the call, they could fall in on this cache of weapons and do whatever the mission was. And as you said, the majority, all of the missions, not the majority, all of the mis…
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just call it their central intelligence, their version of the CIA. The only two people of those 15 member units that they knew was the leader and the assistant leader. They didn't know any of the names of the other citizens. And that's why …
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And so you go into a community who had just been ruled by Mussolini, a fascist dictator for decades, and you tell them that there is this new boogeyman in town and he's much worse than Mussolini. They're atheists. They're going to destroy t…
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It's because of some sort of a resource, a mineral resource or something in that country. And they used communism as the boogeyman. Soviets are going to invade Indonesia. They're going to take over this territory. They're going to come to S…