OPERATION GLADIO with COLONEL TOWNER -NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe PART 3

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0:06 Whoops. Okay. We are going to begin tonight where we left off in the book, Gladio, NATO's Dagger at the Heart of Europe. We were still on chapter one. We had begun to talk about Daniel, Daniel Ganser's book.

0:43 That he wrote, he was a graduate student and he was looking for a subject to do his doctoral thesis on. And he ran across a CIA critic by the name of William Bloom. And he had resigned from the State Department in protest over Vietnam. And William Bloom pointed out to Daniel.

1:15 Ganser that NATO had a Gladio program consisting of a secret army that he thought needed to be looked into. And hold on, I gotta say hey to these guys. So he suggested to Daniel Ganser that he look into it and do his thesis on it. Very little.

1:55 had been written in most of Europe. Quite a bit had been exposed in Italy. So Ganser produced the first clear evidence showing how the network and the program was designed and how it was supposed to defend against communism.

2:28 but was in fact turned on the domestic audience and used to create terror events. And he talked at length about finding the history of the information was very difficult because no one wanted to let go of any of it. And no one wanted to even admit that the program existed. He was not the first person to look into it.

3:02 And all previous investigators he encountered had came upon the wall of silence on almost all official sources, including NATO itself, the CIA, Britain's MI6, etc., including Germany. There's no clear copyright to the term strategy of tension.

3:32 But obviously, we've been in this long enough to understand what it meant. And it appears that term came from another researcher by the name of Claudio Solani, who was an Italian investigator looking into organized crime, the Vatican, and the neo-fascist community left over in Italy.

4:00 but it was Ganser who succinctly captured the essence of exactly how the strategy worked. Here's a quote. If you infiltrate a group and then carry out terror operations with that group, without the group knowing that it has been infiltrated and is being steered, that is one of the strategically most sophisticated operations imaginable.

4:30 To any strategist, that is beautiful, just as it is ugly from a moral perspective, unquote, which, of course, we know is what the CIA is known for and what the FBI is known for and basically what happened on January 6th and the Gretchen kidnapping. You know, there's a host of others in the Balkans.

4:57 An alliance ostensibly dedicated to the high humanitarian issues had basically began manipulating groups, as we will see later. Former NATO Secretary General Baron Robertson once spoke glowingly of his charge as a unique partnership.

5:27 forged during half a century's fight against tyranny. This is the same George Robertson, former Blair MP and defense secretary, who in his own words calls himself a human rights activist, who declared under questioning in a BBC radio interview that NATO's bombing of Serbia TV headquarters.

6:00 in April 1999 was justified to silence a propaganda mouthpiece. 16 people going about their normal duties on the night died when several missiles slammed into the building in the center of Belgrade. NATO jets and gunships thundered across the Serbian sky

6:25 for almost 80 days, hammering non-military targets of opportunity, such as bridges on the Danube and the ruling party's offices, railways, homes of Serbian officials, Belgrade's power grid, water supply, and the Chinese consul. These were the tactics Gladio and the strategy of tension transferred to the air and target.

6:57 targeted civilian bystanders. As Robertson tried to avoid admitting such collective punishment of civilians is against all established laws of war and expressly forbidden by the Geneva Convention, nor was this the sole incident when NATO masked the spreading of democracy backed with armed might.

7:29 So another professor by the name of Wiebes, W-I-E-B-E-S, demonstrated the Balkans were nothing less than a dire continuation of the great armament merry-go-round that came to be known as the Iran-Contra, otherwise as the Enterprise, which is basically the privatized CIA.

7:58 figured that once again the Pentagon was playing fast and loose with its allies, with the UN, in all the warring Balkan fashions. Quoting from a report that he wrote, this is basically what it says, the UN protection force, U-Pro-4, was dependent on the troop contributing nations for intelligence, and above all, a sophisticated monitoring capability of the US to police the arms embargo.

8:30 This gave the Pentagon the ability to manipulate embargo at will, ensuring the American AWACS aircraft covered crucial areas and were able to turn a blind eye when they were smuggling arms. Weapons flown in during the spring of 1995 were to turn up only two weeks later in the besieged demilitarized enclave of the local community.

9:01 When these shipments were noticed, Americans pressured UN Pro 4 to rewrite reports. And when Norwegian officials protested about the flight, they reportedly threatened into silence. So basically, they're going to do what they want. And of course, the Serbia thing was when Wesley Clark was over there as the commander.

9:32 I made a few notes. Wesley Clark was also the South Com commander in 1996 when Bill Clinton was in office. And he was also, as we recently learned, in charge of Fort Hood during Waco, where he helped all of the.

10:05 FBI, ATF, all of those people train during the 51 days in order to storm the compound. So again, these people show up repeatedly in these operations all around the world. To complicate matters even further, there's evidence that British, i.e. MI6, were out

10:38 out of line themselves by running guns through Hungary and Croatia to arm the anti-Muslim front during the Serbian crisis. This was to prove a significant factor in the turf war between the CIA and MI6 when we get to Greece, which led to the murder of a senior British intel officer recently transferred from the Balkans.

11:09 to Athens. And that story is in here. And it's very, very interesting because she ends up dying, but also one of the CIA agents ends up dying in Greece as well. And many people believe he was sacrificed because there was a major investigation going on in Congress at the time. And as soon as his murder turned up, the CIA blamed Congress.

11:40 for investigating them and suggesting that they do untoward things and therefore one of their agents was murdered as a result of that. And so basically, blah, blah, blah. And they are not beyond sacrificing one of their own to get people to stop asking questions. The quote-unquote just war launched on Serbia was explained as a demonstration of force to protect threatened and terrified minorities. To the historian Robert...

12:11 Sedleski, NATO's adoption of ethical imperialism was nothing less than a blatant overturning of the doctrine of national sovereignty, which it certainly is. Quote, this excuse was rolled out once again to justify the brutal mulling of Libya in 2011, the perfect example of regime change via humanitarian intervention, unquote.

12:42 To discover Selesky's words, you have to look back to the protocols of General Shalikashvili and Newman enunciated in the spring of 2008, where we find a shift to majority voting to override national vetoes on military expeditions and the exclusion of any members that refuse.

13:11 to cooperate in the campaigns ordered by the NATO war chiefs. So in other words, if they take a vote in NATO and you vote not to have it be a NATO operation, then you are not allowed to participate in it because chances are you're going to tattletale on the guys who want to go because the guys who want to go is going to do something they're not allowed to do. That's just the translation there.

13:44 There appears to be an unelected body that acquires the authority of a military autocracy inside of NATO. There are political judgments and caution that are bullied into sideline status if they don't go along. Countries that might be opposed or nervous about going to war find themselves unwitting victims of the ruling consensus.

14:14 The Grand Pumba of NATO, who at the time was Anders Fogh Rasmussen, stated in March of 2010 that NATO is a permanent alliance whose self-appointed duties will include intervening in the affairs of so-called failed states. The unmistakable inference is that NATO is now a world policeman.

14:43 and not just of NATO countries, literally everywhere in the world. What he did not say, although it's true, is that no member will be easily permitted to exit the alliance, unlike the Warsaw Pact, which lost Albania and effectively Romania. His remarks basically are a contradiction at the heart of NATO's personality and structure, namely the extent to which

15:16 A confederal power can act to override the spirit of democracy it was designed to protect. Which, hello, that's kind of the entire government. There's a gnat flying around here. The shift of NATO and Europe boundary to scoop up all Balkan territory of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, ex-Yugoslavia, was...

15:49 or excuse me, destined to be consumed by the state eating European Union and the National Atlantic Alliance. We can see North Africa heading for the same fate, which tells you that the overarching guidelines is that pan-European concept that we talked a long time ago about.

16:22 for the Fabian Society and the British Roundtable. That's basically what they're effecting. Eventually, their idea is all of Europe, to include half of Russia to the Ural Mountains, will be in Pan-Europe, and that will all be controlled by Germany. And the other thing is that the reason why we find them so often in Africa, which was just mentioned,

16:55 is they have to control the resources because the only way you can control people is by controlling the resources that people rely on. Let's see. It is now incontestable that NATO is shapeshifting to acquire global ambitions. I would argue they've been there for a long time. The earliest evidence can be detected in a small print of a Atlantic.

17:38 which was compressed into just two days in Washington in April 1999. Both the conference and the concluding winding of communique received far less scrutiny than it deserved. Aside from the neutering of the catch-all Article 5 and 6, the language pointed unmistakably to the emphasis that the alliance would henceforth place asymmetrical threats to European security.

18:08 arising from terrorism and acts of sabotage, friction thrown up by mass population shifts, and global competition for shrinking resources, particularly oil. Such operations would be conducted out of theater, meaning outside of NATO, beyond Europe, or even within bounds of the alliance territory.

18:38 which serves as a clear warning to anyone who's thinking about getting out. In 2003, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Nicholas Burns, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, quote, NATO needs to pivot from its inward focus on Europe. We have to deploy our military forces east and south. NATO's future, we believe, is east.

19:08 and is South. It's the greater Middle East. East of NATO is Russia. South is basically the Middle East and North Africa. That's exactly what they're trying to do. That's what the Arab Spring was all about, what that guy just said. And it'd probably be worth our effort to go back and look at this conference that happened, the Atlantic Charter.

19:40 That was reworked in April 1999 in a Washington meeting of NATO. We'll have to put that on the to-do list. To understand why Tripoli and many other Libyan communities lie in ruins with Syria to come, there's the explanation. Madison Rupert, R-U-P-P-E-R-T, has argued that his website

20:10 End the lie. NATO is on the march worldwide. He sees the resurrection of the old Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, CEDAW, linking Japan, India, Australia, in order to contain China. James Burnham himself might have written the script. All these factors are now major geopolitical preoccupations.

20:39 for the justification of war. Obviously, since 9-11, many things have changed. Yet here are the strategic planners of NATO forecasting just such an eventuality that could be used as a cover story to invade Afghanistan on the pretext of capturing former CIA asset Osama bin Laden.

21:08 significantly never charged by the FBI with any crime ever, but supposedly assassinated for a crime that he was never technically charged with. Bin Laden and al-Qaeda masked the urgency to strategically secure pipeline access to the vast oil reserves in the Caspian Basin. Shrinking resources are the words that matter. This is what Obama meant.

21:40 when he talked about Afghanistan as a war of necessity for his overlord international syndicate. In January 2008, unmistakable signs of a massive destabilization exercise appeared in Turkey. NATO's crucial watchtower sandwiched between the Balkans and the unstable triangle composed of Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan.

22:09 as though the Titanic had been raised from the seabed and found to be in working order, the visible superstructure appeared of an entire gladiotype deep state organization in Turkey, which we've talked about a lot, from the depths was clearly operating under the protection of the highest levels of their military, their secret services, and their political.

22:39 The government ordered a thorough inquiry by a team of state prosecutors amid astounding allegations of its activities. The media quickly filled with stories that Ergicon, it's spelled E-R-G-E-N-E-K-O-N, Ergenicon conspired to create a chaotic

23:11 which the armed forces in the secular establishment could have exploited to oust the Islamic government. The outing of Ergenekon, its name was inspired by a Turkish foundation myth akin to Moses in the Promised Land. Of course, that's not technically a myth.

23:42 Turkish commentators immediately recognized the reincarnation of the former Gladio operation in Turkey, which basically went by many different names. They were called counter guerrillas. They were called gray wolves. They had different names. The creature from the depths clearly owed its loyalties to the forces such as CIA and the Pentagon because that's who trained and funded them.

24:15 and a particular group in the Turkish military. So basically, it had been used to contaminate the Turkish political culture by buying into it. Turkey has witnessed a miraculous transformation brought about by the justice and development called the AK Party. Admirers speak of the Islamic take on Protestant values and work ethics. Detractors suspect a secret agenda.

24:47 to elamicize Turkey by stealthily chipping away at Ataturk's precious secular legacy. Ergenekon exposures slumped into reverse gear for what appeared to be a wider accommodation of convenience with the military. These new arrivals, with their crisp tailored suits and confident smiles,

25:20 immediately launched a charm offensive inside of Turkey. Basically, they had a pledge of freeing up markets and promoting private enterprise in extraordinary contrast to the opposite side who ushered Turkey from one fiscal calamity to the next. Under new management, there was a

25:54 Basically, a shift to third world backwater prominence, which is where they had come from. And many people didn't want to go back to that. There was a select groups of countries whose sovereign credit ratings were actually rising amid the global slump. Turkey had a.

26:26 photogenic premier and later president called Abdullah Gul, G-U-L, the very image of Islam with a human face, was soon the darling of the international chattering circuit. On the other hand, AK's new foreign policies disturbed the powerful group composed of Washington, Tel Aviv, and Brussels.

26:55 NATO members are not supposed to practice imprudently independent foreign policies. Ankara, however, which is the capital, began talking to Hezbollah and Hamas. Both organizations received red carpet treatment in Ankara. At the UN in September 2011, on the eve of the contentious debate on the highly charged issue of Palestinian sovereignty,

27:24 Prime Minister Recep Erdogan delivered a powerful admonishing lecture to the world for its collective shame over torturing that was occurring in Somalia, a vast racial pogrom which had proceeded unabated for over 20 years.

27:53 Few doubted his finger pointing was especially directed at the U.S., whose special forces and grisly regional warlord allies had continued to meddle in this miserable country. After years as the compliant poodle of U.S. policies, Turkey, for the new Ottoman Empire, was out of step with the American elite agenda.

28:23 right across the Middle East. Her prized $10 billion worth of trade with Iran, much of it tied to oil and gas, spoke volumes louder than the sanctions or bombs or the Israelis. President Abdinijab, Washington replacement boogeyman for Saddam Hussein, is regularly trotted out in the Turkish capital.

28:54 Another red flag waved at the U.S. and the Zionist Israelis. And obviously he was president. He's no longer president, but he was a president when the book was written. In May of 2010, Turkey and Brazil, the brash new kids on the block, made a deal to ship Iran's controversial uranium to Turkey for onward processing.

29:30 by Russia and China, thereby dealing an unexpected blow to the American-Israeli war party. Then came the Gaza convoy raid of June 2011, in which eight Turkish citizens and one Turkish American died at the hands of Israeli assault forces. In January 2012, the Turkish government offered further provocation

29:55 by the willingness to fund Hamas and sign a new compact with Russia. All of these events, the U.S. policymakers demonstrated that they were blinded by the cold logic of the Bush Doctrine and anyone who was not entirely with them was automatically against them. In passing, remember, this was also Lenin's refrain.

30:21 So what's interesting about this passage right here, obviously, is how it pertains to today. So Turkey went off on their own and made their own big boy decisions. And all of a sudden, there's a terror incident that gets blamed on Hamas in Gaza. Gosh, that sounds awfully familiar. 72 million Turks.

30:53 have witnessed the only real prosperity this enormous country has known since Ataturks died in 1938. Istanbul build their annual fashion and cultural fest like it happening in Manhattan, New York.

31:22 But the regions, too, have also been transformed by a flood of foreign investment. The political party AK switched on the energizing dynamics, which escaped the notice of all their predecessors. Yet every step of the way, Washington sought to destabilize the government that is not prepared to trust entirely because it is Islamic. Therefore, making an

31:52 absurdity of the much-proclaimed policy of transforming all Islamic countries into freedom-loving democratic societies. You're not allowed to be free. AK undead and 700 wounded attributed to Al-Qaeda. The toll mounted over the years to some 200 deaths and many more injured, with foreign holidaymakers among the victims.

32:25 A judge of the high constitutional court was shot and killed by a soldier of Allah, a false flag shooting known by a known secular thug while the court was in public session. A guide by the name of Hant Dink, it's H-R-A-N-T-D-I-N-K.

32:53 A prominent Turkish-Armenian writer arguing for rapprochement between Armenia and Turkey despite the festering genocidal issue was gunned down in broad daylight. Vans piled with military-type explosives mysteriously materialized in the heavily policed central districts of Ankara and Istanbul. One horrible incident

33:21 which gained international notoriety, featured the ritualistic disemboweling alive in April 2007 of three Turkish Christians employed by a Bible publishing house in a large city in the eastern Anatolia area. The government case against the accused killers alleges that they were controlled by the Ergenekon, but...

33:50 This has not yet been firmly proven, and basically their air genicon is Operation Gladio. Turks of an older generation recalled being here before in the extended years of lead between 1960 and 1985, because what happened in Italy also happened in Turkey. On May 1977, the crack of gunshots from a high-rise

34:20 signaled a ruthless assault by counter guerrilla secret army snipers on a huge throng of people, perhaps even a million crammed into a town square. Huh, that sounds very familiar. The mass demonstration was led by the Turkish left and came to a bloody end. At least 34 died and several hundred more were struck by gunfire, trampled.

34:48 and basically just mass panic. There were police beating, water cannons were used. 21 years later, and again on May Day in 2008, police were blamed for brutally laying into peaceful anti-AK, the political party, demonstrators with clubs, gas, and pepper bombs. The demonstration was composed mainly of troublemakers stirred up by the secular

35:21 another party, H-A-L-K-P-A-R-T-I-S-I, Halt Partisi. It's called CHP Party. It was a blatant provocation, painting the Islamist as frightened of free speech. The truth is that every government since 1977 massacre explicitly for

35:48 forbid any large group demonstration in this sensitive location, and particularly on May Day. It was sealed off. The authorities thought violence would occur. Union officials prudently steered their members away. The following riot was presented as the real face of the AK party behind a smiling mask. Just as the EU, a session's talked, reached a critical juncture.

36:18 The CHP party leadership will never forgive the AK for hijacking the traditional rights and social privileges of the secular class, even less for transforming the floundering backward state into a humming world class economy. CHP is an ultra nationalist grouping whose interest in socialism and

36:48 is purely superficial. It is basically the party of the Operation Gladio, and they are very close with the EU. They are the Turkish version of social fascism close to Francoism, which, of course, was the fascist dictator of Spain. The ongoing EU flirtation infuriated

37:24 These disenfranchised elite whose sole legacy was to render the country a permanent ward of the IMF. And that's kind of the role that all of these elitists play. They want the international syndicate or they basically work for the international syndicate. That's where their palms are greased at. European political leaders beamed with approval on Premier Erdogan and President.

37:53 Abdullah Ghul smart and effective reconciliation of pious Turks and market forces. That was later soured when Erdogan, now in the presidency, authorized a widespread crackdown on critics in the media, which had included the summary arrest of reporters and editors. It was intended to smother the honeymoon with.

38:23 A quickie divorce. Turkish police were scarcely renowned for their lightness administration of justice. And so obviously they got a little crazy too. The government was instantly accused by the EU of deploying disappropriate force, like they should talk, against innocent demonstrators. Their rush to judgment ignored both the deliberate breaching of the

38:53 historical standing ban on demonstrations in that sensitive area on that sensitive day and then basically triggered a Gladio disaster. So obviously you have the king of Gladio operations, i.e. NATO and the EU, trying to lecture Turkey because they don't like what Erdogan's doing. So you already see like the little cracks forming.

39:21 Erdogan is starting to go out on his own and not be a stooge like all of the rest of the people had been in the past, with a few exceptions. So they're going to start causing Gladio operations to occur in Turkey to try to intimidate him back into line. The AK secular detractors that Ergenekon is a mirage.

39:48 A fiction controlled by the government itself, in short, a reverse coup, which of course is not true. This is a strident running theme of the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute, who's presiding mastermind, because they're not going to admit they actually have a Gladio organization. Their mastermind, Yigal, Y-I-G-A-L, Carmen, K-A-R-M-O-N.

40:18 a former colonel in the Israeli military intelligence and personal security advisor to Shamir and Rabin. Now, just this is so interesting. You have an Israeli military intelligence colonel working in a Washington-based think tank lecturing the government about Turkey. But the real agenda,

40:53 as the Guardian laid out, was to act as a loudspeaker projecting the distorted worldview of Mossad by means of heavily doctored translations for all that it pays not to be excessively dewy-eyed when you're looking at the structure to play on public nerves with drum rolls of the deep state continuing existence.

41:24 AK is the true warden of democracy while steadily expanding its root structure in the political and economic landscape. AK's fierce critics insist it is no more than a front for the charismatic Islamic philosopher Fethullah Gulen, a Trojan horse aiming to establish a hardline Islamic Turkish republic.

41:56 Erdogan then whirled against Gulen as himself plotting to overthrow the president. So, you know, Gulen's now in Pennsylvania because he was plotting to overthrow Erdogan. So basically, our State Department was lying to us, trying to make Erdogan look bad by saying he was in bed with Gulen. And then Gulen tries to coup him.

42:22 because he's actually working for the CIA. And then they're like, oh, yeah, our bad. You just can't trust anything they say. Rachel Sharon Crespin, a senior representative of this think tank, darkly informed readers of the arch neoconservative Middle East quarterly to beware of the hidden strategy of a shadowy Islamist sect led by the mysterious.

42:55 master teacher. Observe the careful prepping of the Senate to invoke chilling comparison with bin Laden of the grotto cave. A pity, however, is that the real Gulen, with his sophisticated website, glossy worldwide conferences, and the 60 books that he's authored, his conclave with John Paul II and the head of the ship.

43:25 Sheffordic Jews falls short of the man of mystery and intrigue they try to write him up to be. He is a rather plainly dressed resident of Pennsylvania instead of this googly-eyed fiend issuing fatwas and picture postcards from some cavernous cave in Afghanistan. Gulen's problem for the U.S. is the powerful allure of a theology

43:54 conservative interpretation of islam they like to use him um islam runs specifically counter to powerful zionist influence pressing every u.s administration israel's only foreign policy after all is to box in islamic power in any shape or form at any price gulen rests weekly on a rigged charge

44:28 that was leveled unsuccessfully by secular powers in 2000, alleging Gulen was scheming a coup. He won his case in his acquittal inside of Turkey, was finally affirmed in 2008. But subsequent to that, him and Erdogan did have the falling out and the

45:02 rumors or threats of him working with the military when the military did actually try to coup Erdogan has not gone away. So basically, there are agents of foreign powers, the intelligence services of the U.S. and her NATO partners responsible between what's going on in Turkey.

45:36 and the sharp edge of strategy of tension for a very long time, costing a very high price, which is something that we see routinely happening in many of these places. The exposure of Ergenikon, their Gladio, revealed a working engine room packed with vintage Gladio devices of targeted killings and false flag terror. It possessed a deep state structure connecting the military.

46:04 Right-wing politicians, military officers, neo-fascist thugs, organized crime, and shady actors of the state. Like its Gladio predecessor, counter-guerrilla, Ergenekon was shown to thrive by narcotics flowing across the Golden Trail from the Far East to Afghanistan. Excuse me, the Far East and Afghanistan. Turkey's...

46:36 Quarter-century-long dirty war on the Kurds, the military's lynching of Premier Aydin Menderes in 1961, another CIA coup, and the assassin's trail that led to St. Peter's Square in Rome in 1982, which was, of course, a Turkish gray wolf that committed the shooting and the attempted assassination. Although...

47:06 In the aftermath, it was said that that was more of a warning for him to stop talking to Russia to free Poland. So moving on to chapter two, the curse of the two-edged sword. There's a quote from a convicted Italian terrorist. You had to attack civilians, the people, women, and children, unknown people, far from political games.

47:36 The reason was quite simple, to force the people to turn to the state to ask for greater security. That says it all. That's Operation Gladio in a nutshell. One August morning in 1990, the Italian premier, Andriotti, was notorious for his scandals.

48:09 He astonished the Italian public with an extremely rare personal confession. The six times premier, a seventh mandate would follow, found himself summoned to a special commission of inquiry. It had been hurriedly convened by the Senate to investigate a secret parallel state existing on Italian soil.

48:38 It was apparently equipped with its own clandestine commando army operating outside of all established military structures. Andriotti was on his finest polished form. Gently, he told the senators by conceding that for many years, Italy indeed hosted a clandestine army, Gladio.

49:06 It was, however, formally an element of a standing NATO structure. He calmly assured them it was nothing more threatening than a prudent precaution to defend Italy in the case they were ever abated by the Soviets. When that threat appeared to abate, the secret soldiers were disbanded in 1971. They were not.

49:34 It was only secret because the Russians were not supposed to know about their so-called stay-behind army. The performance was vintage Andriotti, a calm, downplayed manner in which he usually dispatched any political crisis. Unfortunately, his carefully airbrushed account of volunteer standings firmly to arm against incoming communists was a lie.

50:08 Finally, a guy by the name of, let's see, Julius admitted what Gladio was and that there were well-stocked armed dumps at every corner of the land. Sensing a whirlwind political opportunity, the Communist Party ordered huge street protests, which attracted many thousands.

50:41 some dressed up as gladiators. Even by the standards of a country where spectacular political scandals are everyday norm, the media enjoyed the field day. Much of Italy's political class were only framing their surprise, especially the Christian Democrats, because they're the one that created it. A few prominent fellow travelers called Lira Socialists, Lira is the name of their money,

51:15 had long known about the parasitic state and also precisely who the owners of the valuable property was. They were aware that it had been around for decades, but somehow they needed to figure out how to put Gladio back in the box. Andriotti was again unexpectedly jolted from his customary suave outer.

51:49 by a warning from the Attorney General. Investigating magistrates was about to expose the trail connecting the secret underground army to many acts of civil terror committed during the years of lead. The most dangerous and persistent of these, the stubborn Venetian campaign magistrate, Felice Sasson, S, or excuse me, C-A-S-S-O-N.

52:24 Felice Cassone delivered a monumental pile to the Attorney General's office in Rome. In additional precaution in the political climate of Italy, the precious cargo was escorted by a well-armed carabinary detachment. Here was the ripened fruit of diligent investigations extended for over 10 years, running to many thousands of damning words.

52:54 exposing the Italian state as institutionally corrupt at every level and who the collaborators were. Cassone told reporters that there was clear evidence now existing to connect Gladio secret soldiers to specific acts of political terrorism and subversion. There were certainly correct that the material amounted to an earthquake.

53:24 of explosive power. Cassone soon understood what sort of welcome his work was likely to receive from no less than the president, Francesco Cossiga. In the course of a remarkable eulogy to Gladio delivered before an audience of police and army cadets, the father of the nation praised the secret soldiers as patriots.

53:53 Meanwhile, in a devastating libel, he reviled the magistrate investigating Gladio as inspired by subversive ideals. So blame the guy who's trying to tell the truth. A string of revelations concerning the secret armies largely undid all of his good work. In November, Guy Comey, a Belgian minister of defense, confessed to the Belgium units.

54:25 of sleeping soldiers and was followed by his Greek counterpart who admitted another troop known as sheepskin. That's what it was called in Greece. Turkey shared with Italy the experience of decades-long political violence. In December 1990, General Kemal Yalmaz, chief of the special forces in Turkey, revealed the existence of the counter-guerrilla for their gray wolves.

54:56 He was bound to be well-informed since the local stay-behind unit reported directly to him. It seemed to a remarkable degree there was a coordination between the related announcements springing forth in a string of NATO countries. Perhaps a cleansing of the stables was occurring because there was going to be some uninvited guests showing up soon.

55:24 Unfortunately, in Turkey, this exercise was limited disclosure and quickly undone. The suspicion that the counter guerrilla operation ventured into torture and terrorism was confirmed by a retired general by the name of Talat Turhan. He declared he had undergone excruciating abuse for several days at a villa in Istanbul.

55:54 At the hands of a guy by the name of, I don't even know what this, how do you pronounce this name? E-Y-U-P, and the last name is O-Z-A-L-P-U-S. Ozulkis, chief of the National Intelligence Organization. Almost immediately in the wake of the Italian revelations, veteran quasi-socialist statesman, Ezevet, informed the press that he was initiated,

56:25 into the existence of the counter-guerrillas immediately after he began his first term as premier in 1974. Esavet, who was locked up after General Evren's counter-guerrillas and CIA back coup in 1980, and therefore had a quiver of reasons wanting revenge.

56:52 was then indirect enough to imply that the counter-guerrillas units might indeed have been involved in domestic terror. He specifically cited stay-behind units' role in the bloody Taksim Square massacre in Istanbul on the 1st of May, the one we were just talking about. And he was quickly told that he had better keep his effing mouth shut by the defense minister.

57:26 posed the existential question concerning the motives of these secret soldiers. They were handsomely trained by Britain SAS and the Pentagon's Green Beret, and now we know Otto Skorzeny from our other book review, and a good many passed through the undercover training camps in Sardinia, which is off the coast of Italy, and also Canary Islands, and also the U.S. Fort Bragg and Fort Benning.

57:57 Yet when push comes to shove, how many of these volunteers would risk being caught by the Russians? Good question. Even before the formal establishment of NATO in the spring of 1949, scouts from the CIA toured Europe touting sweetheart deals with the commanders of wartime stay-behind outfits. Because why? Because we know that all of these were set up by General Galen during World War II.

58:32 primarily in the Axis countries, and that he made the deal with Alan Dulles before the CIA ever stood up because it was done under the OSS. Galen was taken to the OSS headquarters in Washington, D.C., not the CIA headquarters. So here this guy is saying that they made the tour of the stay-behind units before the CIA and NATO was even stood up.

59:05 The CIA thus established important colonies in Greece and captured the whole of the intelligence establishment, as well as special forces units in Turkey, as soon as she joined NATO in 1952. A decade would pass before an internal NATO briefing minute dated 1 June 1959 slipped into the hands of a British newspaper, revealing the task of the stay-behind units.

59:33 had been formally switched to confronting internal subversion on an actual memo. And subversion means anything against the state, not actual subversion. It's anything against the ruling party. Sorry, I misstated that. Anything against the ruling party of the Christian Democrats and who the international syndicate wanted to be president.

1:00:06 not necessarily subversion. The document was the order of battle for the forthcoming program, which duly erupted across the European continent. All the more revealing to read it once again in light of the other groundbreaking readjustments of NATO roles.

1:00:31 The 1999 policy statement, which firmly underscored the alliance's future priorities in the field of asymmetrical warfare. It is unlikely, as we have seen, that during the intervening years, NATO surrendered the counterinsurgency capability it so carefully assembled from the 1950s onward. In 1999, the decision can be understood.

1:00:59 like one of the 40 years earlier, as a fresh order of battle to bring the politics of emergency up to date. The notorious incident in the southern Iraq city of Basra on 17 January 2008 supplied concrete proof that Gladio tactics remained deeply rooted in British armed forces. Two SAS commandos were caught preparing a false flag bombing on a police station.

1:01:30 In June 2011, we find SAS units dressed as Arabs up to the same party tricks in Libya. The Stockholm connection provided an important insight to the prevailing mentality, the reliance on ex-Nazis, which we know they have in Ukraine, and right-wing extremists in general as the backbone of this secret soldier hierarchy.

1:02:03 In 1953, a notorious racist and SS commander named Otto Hallberg fell into the hands of the Swedish police on suspicion of promoting terrorism. During interrogation, he let slip that he was the leading light in the Swedish stay-behind army, which was called Sveaborg, S-V-E-A-B-O-R-G.

1:02:32 The relaxed and chatty Hallberg entertained his custodians with a remarkable tale of how he received his on-the-job training as far back as 1941, which precedes 1942 when Hitler began it with Otto Skorzeny and General Galen. So we're told. When he began assembling the nuts and bolts of the stay-behind unit on behalf of the Germans,

1:03:04 inside the Reich. This was called Werewolf, just like I told you. The Nazi doppelganger of the future Gladio, sustained in the same fashion by stores of food, munitions, well-stocked hideaways. As Hallberg confidently expected, all police charges were quietly squashed.

1:03:35 by higher direction. In other words, they're not going to hold accountable one of their own. He knows too much. He was thus prevented from rattling many more skeletons in the Swedish secret state in open court, such as the extent to which the Swedish forces were under the direct sway of the CIA and NATO. And keep in mind, Sweden

1:04:04 supposedly during World War II, was neutral. Let that slosh around a little bit. Sweden is classically one of those countries where things are never quite as placid as they may appear on the surface. The murder in 1986 of the Swedish Prime Minister, Olaf Palm, a galvanizing figure in world politics, rocked Scandinavia with an impact similar to John and Robert Kennedy's assassination.

1:04:37 And many of you have been in spaces when we talk about Gladio and one of the Swedish people, well, they always bring up Olaf Palm. They all know that he was murdered as a result of Operation Gladio. The epitome of non-aggression and army presidents state paternalism. That's kind of how they describe him.

1:05:14 An author by the name of John Ray writes about psychological forms of authoritarianism, regards Sweden as an example of fascism in slow motion. In World War II, she leaned towards the Nazis, allowing war materials and troops to transit the country to attack Norway and fed the Germans with vital ore for their war machine.

1:05:45 and many other things. The tightly organized social democratic people state developed from 1932 onwards with a rigid form of corporatist society where high personal taxation and social and welfare benefits function as a means to exercise control over the population. There is a Swedish far right

1:06:17 That was a ally to the British black shirt leader, Sir Oswald Mosley. They worked together in the 1950s designing an anti-Semitic pan-European fascist confederation. Oswald Mosley is the guy we've quoted ad nauseum on the creation of the

1:06:47 Pan-America, Pan-Europe, all of that concept of the Fabian Society and the British Roundtable. They worked together in the 1950s. Let's see. When he was in Stockholm setting up the Sweveborg unit, Bill Colby, William Colby, who moves on to be the CIA director, was one to snap up a Nazi recognized Ingalls.

1:07:23 and quickly put him on the CIA payroll. One of the first tasks that he was assigned was picking safe hands for the Swedish Gladio unit. Swedes were fully aware of the technical nature of their neutrality in World War II. Many argued the country should join the Axis powers. They hoped the Germans might win and then big business would rake in the profits.

1:07:53 from them having won the war. Because keep in mind that the majority of the large German companies moved all of their patents to Sweden. And Sweden is also used in order to get Trotsky into, and Lenin, I believe, into the Bolshevik communist.

1:08:24 effort as well, we learned when we were talking about Antony Sutton. So Sweden has never been a neutral country in reality. When the Germans lost to the Soviet Union, the Swedes continued a very similar strategy, neutrality with a bold face, or as President Theodore Roosevelt said, a favorite proverb, quote, speak softly and carry a big stick, unquote.

1:08:59 One analyst at Swedish National Defense College painted a picture of a highly militarized state enjoying the most favored nation status with the U.S. and NATO, ushered into the corridors of power and showered with the highest tech weaponry. Sweden was, in truth, a shadow member of NATO for a very long time and in war would occupy a vital forward position.

1:09:27 but Swedes at large did not share the knowledge possessed by Palm that the Western fjords bristled with American nuclear submarines all over the place, and they were all trained on Moscow, and the Swedes' government knew they were off their shore. Like JFK, Palm was a new hope figure rekindling the flames of social democracy.

1:09:56 then experiencing severe right stress across Europe. Pom, the globe-trotting peacemaker, talked to people in the Palestinian Liberation Organization. He talked to people in Castro's Cuba. And he also was a critic of the U.S. policy in Vietnam and the U.N. umpire trying to stop the Iran-Iraq war.

1:10:29 It was not exactly the poster child of someone Washington was going to embrace. Palm coldly, realistically concerning U.S.-NATO relations with Sweden, and he knew all about those giant silver whales, i.e. submarine, off the coast. As a champion of open government, Palm spurred his bodyguards choosing to freely go about the streets like any other private citizen.

1:11:02 Close to midnight on 28 February 1986, he was leaving the Grand Cinema in central Stockholm with his wife. A figure stepped out from the shadows with a revolver and shot him in the back, the barrel positioned to pierce the heart. The victim died instantly. A second round lightly wounded Mrs. Palm. The gunman's actions were performed at a leisurely pace.

1:11:31 He displayed no signs of concern as he committed cold-blooded murder in full view of witnesses and vanished calmly into the night without any visible haste. It would indicate, several observers said, that his body movements seemed to indicate that he knew to a second exactly when the premier would reach the spot where he was going to execute him.

1:12:02 The indications of a contract job, rather than a rash act performed by someone, were compelling. Two years later, the obliging patsy duly made his appearance, a grubby, petty criminal and drug runner called Krister Peterson. The useful pedigree included a previous homicide and a tendency to brag about

1:12:32 him killing Palm. If the individual is a wrong side of the tracks hankering for attention, Peterson was well known to powerful Stockholm criminal clans who probably served up his head on a plate. He was tried, convicted, and he was cleared on appeal, which is how the matter stood until he too was murdered in 2004.

1:13:03 Peterson suddenly announced to the media that he had an important message for Palm's son, Martin, who agreed to a meeting, which in the event never took place because on 16 September, Peterson was found lying in a coma in his home from a devastated head injury, which, let's see, he received a visit from the police on the 15th and was not seen outside his home afterwards.

1:13:37 He never recovered consciousness. This crime remains unsolved today. Krister Peterson knew everything and nothing at the same time. A decade, a shattered personality was supplied with a sense of mission and made him basically

1:14:06 They talk a little bit about his background and it kind of made him like the perfect candidate to be the stooge of the person blamed, kind of like a Jack Ruby. We shall never know what he intended to tell Martin Palm concerning the murder of his father on the eve of his own death in 2004. But it was enough to get his head smashed in. In the same year, Lawrence Redlinger and HHA Cooper.

1:14:38 published The Murder of Olaf Palm, a tale of assassination, deception, and intrigue, in which they argue that Palm was a victim of a highly clandestine clash of forces. Palm was recently exposed as the UN mediator in the Iran-Iraq war, and an early end to it would not have been good for the health of Operation Iran-Contra. Huh.

1:15:11 Some years later, a retired police superintendent who was a scene of the crime officer on the night Palm died began to talk about a particular behavior of his colleagues. Despite the call for aid, it took a full seven minutes for the first police car to reach the scene. There was no general alert or lockdown, and one might expect such a high-profile circumstance that

1:15:39 there would be immediate reaction. One officer made the astonishing claim that he wasn't sure it was actually Palm laying in the pool of blood, although his was the best known face in all of the country after the King. The superintendent blew the whistle that police units in the Capitol were in the thralls.

1:16:08 a right-wing extremism, and were lying about the murder. His most serious charge was that the police at the scene helped him, the gunman, escape. Many factual records of the night vanished, which tells you everything you need to know. He was widely seen as anti-American, talking about POM. In truth, his attitudes toward America was ambivalent.

1:16:39 He basically just wanted everybody to get a fair shake. As a student, he was courted by the CIA talent scouts, but he turned them down. Let's see. One of the daily newspapers over there described a meeting at the U.S. Embassy in 1950 where propositions were put to palm to spy for the CIA.

1:17:08 It seems that during his travels behind the Iron Curtain, he did feed the CIA with some interesting snippets on a volunteer basis. At the end of 1950, Palm organized a conference in Stockholm, which led to the creation of the International Students Conference. The CIA secretly funded this organization and wanted Palm to be the head, which he declined in favor of diplomatic service.

1:17:38 a former agent in the Swedish military intelligence, shed light on the dark corners when he said, Olaf Palm, cooperation with the Americans and the CIA was well known through the military intelligence services. Palm has closely involved in setting up the Steve Borg stay behind units, which unquestionably would have placed him in close liaison with the secret soldier mastermind.

1:18:08 William Colby. As Prime Minister, Palm hosted the May 1973 Bilderberg Enclave at the Grand Hotel close to Stockholm alongside Marcus Wallenberg. Can't talk about Sweden without talking about the Wallenbergs. The Wallenberg dynasty rules the largest family-owned company in Europe, a banking and industrial combine accounting for about a third of Swedish economy.

1:18:39 It was a pivotal Bilderberg meeting as documented by William Engdahl in A Century of War. An American viceroy, probably Bilderberg regular Henry Kissinger, presented the vassals of Europe a darling strategy to rescue the dollar, an oil shock followed by a petrodollar recycling in a long form.

1:19:10 a long-term turnaround from growth to greening, controlling economies rather than growing them. A few months later, Kissinger instigated the Young Kipper War, which gave the Saudis the pretext for the new oil price level and for Israel to occupy more Palestinian territory. Palm's trajectory steered close to another Swedish icon, Dog.

1:19:41 He was the second secretary general, and he is also the one that was murdered, assassinated on his way to help the Congo. We've read about him before, too. He died on September 1961 when his official DC-6 came down, basically, in Africa. He was shot down. He was on his way to investigate the attacks on the peacekeeper troops.

1:20:12 by American and Belgian and British-backed Congolese secessionist rebels in the sprawling Congo. His death, like that of Palm 25 years later, gave rise to the claims of power intrigue. All three countries were interested in keeping the vast Congolese reserves of copper and uranium, more than copper, under their control, while the official

1:20:44 UN under the auspices of Hamburgstold was opposed to the independence of Katanga. Because remember, Katanga was the breakaway country that had all of the resources that they were trying to keep out of Lumumba's control so that he couldn't pay for his government and his government would fail because they didn't like him. And they called him a communist.

1:21:11 after they shut him off and wouldn't let him renegotiate their contracts for the uranium. And they also brought in Otto Skorzeny to murder him. Rescuers certainly dragged their feet getting to the scene of the crash, talking about the airplane crash for the UN Secretary General, giving rise to suspicions that there was supposed to be no survivors to tell what really happened. The crash investigation conducted by the colonial Rhodesian authorities

1:21:43 heavily influenced by the British, was a sham. Every effort was made to squash witness statements describing the smaller plane that had fired at the UN jet. I mean, most of them even tried to deny that there was even one there. And they also wouldn't take any of the locals' testimony because they were all black and they didn't believe they knew what they were talking about. And I'm not lying about that. That's actually their words.

1:22:12 Always seemed too expansive a personality for one small country like Sweden to have both Palm and Haberstold. The nuclear sub assumed a growing significance as Palm, the visionary, detested the political events that were about to change the world. He believed that the huge eruption tearing the Soviet fold apart would make possible his lifelong dream of general disarmament.

1:22:44 That's not going to go well. The U.S. had no intentions of cashing a blank check represented by the peace dividend. So, palms out. Palm was an awkward obstacle, but he was also exposed on other treacherous ground. He was charged by the U.N. to negotiate between the parties engaged in the Iran-Iraq war, a dispute to which the U.S. had logistical interest on both.

1:23:17 sides. Scarcely a month after he was killed, a plane crashed in the Nicaragua jungle and it was exposed that it was loaded with munitions, which led to the exposure of the Iran-Contra affair. If Palm had somehow intercepted the activities of the Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, then any man in possession of such knowledge was certainly a walking dead man. And it's quite possible that happened.

1:23:46 especially if he's going to both Iraq and Iran negotiating a peace settlement. The accumulation of evidence which points to a Gladio contract killing is compelling. Two CIA whistleblowers suggested that the gunman was acting on orders from Gladio in Italy. They were Richard Benecke and Gene Chips Tatum.

1:24:13 An Iran-Contra operations pilot who claimed Palm was a victim of an unknown CIA secret assassination program called Pegasus. In April 1992, one of the Swedish newspapers published a series of articles alleging that a NATO commission assassination drawing on documents stating, quote, planning local technician imported, unquote.

1:24:44 The same year, the Italian state television channel RAI broadcast a claim that the CIA hitman, Michael Townley, visited Stockholm about a week before the shooting, supposedly on a recon exercise. In Rome, President and former Gladio boss, Kosiga, panicked himself into sending Premier

1:25:11 Andriotti, an urgent letter pleading for advice on what to do. Andriotti maintained his usual silence, and he had sound reason to do so. Townley was a close associate of the Italian fascist Stefano Del Che, and we'll hear a lot about him, who crops up many times throughout this book. Del Che moved in the inner circles of

1:25:44 Gelli's P2 Lodge. He was actually a member of it. He was on good terms with many of the Gladio operators inside of Italy who were operating the secret finance conduits within the Vatican, i.e. money laundering, and a secret outpost in Portugal acting as the command center behind the scenes, which is Magenta Press.

1:26:13 That's the name of the organization in Portugal. And you had the guy that's referred to as God's terrorist, Yves-Garin Serac, and his agenda press game. So you have both Townley and Delachey, key figures in Operation Gladio and in Operation Condor in South America, and the assassination program used in both of them.

1:26:49 Some 60,000 deaths of leftists and so-called revolutionaries would be laying against Western-backed death squads, all trained by these guys. Condor's operational tentacles ran through Fort Bragg Army Black Ops Center. Townley, on your tail, inevitably indicated a dead man walking.

1:27:18 In 1974, he exploded a radio control car bomb in Benaziris, which killed General Carlos Prats Gonzalez, deputy to the assassinated Chilean president, Salvador Allende. Two years later in Washington, he used the same technique. Now, we've read about this before.

1:27:49 that killed the ambassador from the former president in Washington, D.C., Orlando Ladigari, and an American citizen that was walking with them. Both of them were murdered and two other people were injured in a car bombing in Washington, D.C. from these same terrorists.

1:28:20 A second figure with a strong connection to gladial contract assassination programs now appears in the Stockholm frame, which is a shadowy Danish-Italian called Francesco Galano, living in next door Copenhagen. He is also the prime suspect in a spectacular and long-lasting mystery, the killing in September 1978 of Georgie

1:28:50 Markov, M-A-R-K-O-V, a prominent Bulgarian immigrant, writer, and anti-regime broadcaster living in London. Markov was struck by a tiny pellet apparently containing a lethal doth of ricin. The headline-seizing theory was circulated that the fatal dart

1:29:17 could have been fired from an adapted umbrella functioning silently, similarly to an air gun, which isn't the only time this happens. That device had been recently developed by American biological warfare experts and passed to the CIA. It was traced to Budapest 10 years after the murder of Palm. Golino freely declared that one country

1:29:50 where he would never dare show his face again, was Sweden. The possibility that Townley was the set designer in Stockholm and Galliano was the imported stage technician is very persuasive. There was a tragic sequel to The Parm Affair on September 11, 2003. They love that date, September 11.

1:30:17 which played a significant role in replacing the traditional easygoing image of Sweden with a far darker one. Another Swedish government official, foreign affairs minister, young and popular Anna Lindh, L-I-N-D-H, was a rising star. And I think we're going to stop right there. We'll go into her assassination because, yeah, she bites the dust too.

1:30:47 Because hers is a very interesting story too. But I want to, there's a few, we got a little bit more to go on this one. The chapters in here are fairly long. So we'll wrap up her story on our next day, which should be Thursday night. I'll be in my mobile command post because we're going camping tomorrow.

1:31:17 I'm going to change the time. We may actually just skip tomorrow. Gladio. I may have it later. I don't know because we're actually driving to our campground tomorrow and I will be on a radio interview at one o'clock with Colonel Manis. He does a regular radio show that's broadcast on to X.

1:31:45 And I will give, I'll post all of the information about it. It is a live show. So would love to have as many of you in the audience on X as possible. And he does, once every 15 minutes, take a question from the audience when he has, at least that's the way it was explained to me, when he has guests on. So y'all all show up.

1:32:16 And what else is going on? Tomorrow night will air the second half of the show about the USS Liberty that we did last Wednesday with Alpha Warrior. We're going to record that in the morning first thing. So lots of stuff coming up. And I will see you back at the regular time on.

1:32:46 Thursday at noon, if I don't see you before, on X. And then Thursday night at seven, we'll do the next installment of this book. So thank you all for being here. I appreciate it. Yeah, please give, everybody give us a thumbs up if you enjoyed the show. Also, make sure you follow the channel.

1:33:14 We've got so many great followers here. I'm going to run through the comments here. Y'all have been very busy in the comments. So let's look through here. Donny Vision just taking charge. SR71 posting great links. I see y'all. Let's see. Didn't France leave? Yes, they did. Donny Vision, you're dead on it. So France did leave.

1:33:49 They can actually leave. They try to make it as hard as possible. And the reason France left is because NATO kept trying to kill Charles de Gaulle. So he pulled the forces out and they didn't rejoin until 2009. Yeah, SR-71. Yes, y'all got it. I love it. Definitely makes my time worthwhile when y'all are just spitting that stuff out. I love it.

1:34:23 Let's see. Hey, Rosie and SR71, thank you for posting those links. That's awesome. It does sound like Antifa. You're absolutely right. Greece has had their fair share of IMF shenanigans. Yeah, wait till we get to the Greece chapter. It's just, it's so heartbreaking. Let's see.

1:34:55 Donny Vision, that doesn't make sense to me as the EU basically controls. So here's what bugs me. Knowing all of this, why would Turkey want to be part of the EU? I have my own reasons. I think they want Turkey in there probably more than Turkey wants to be in there. Not that they don't want to be in there.

1:35:27 But there are advantages when you're on the inside of one of these trade organizations over. Turkey long term has been seen, I think, by the people at the roundtable as being the revised head of state of the Islamic world. And the more they can control and entice Turkey.

1:35:56 the more of a stranglehold they have over that whole community. Because everyone knows that's where the caliphate was set up. And that's basically where it went away as well. So I think there's some manipulation behind the scenes that when that, in order to control the Islam,

1:36:25 Islamic world, you would need to resurrect that and then use that as your controlling mechanism. And I think that's the only reason Turkey is in not just NATO, but EU in general. Hello, PDS 10. Let's see. Look at how NAFTA was constructed. NAFTA was a piece of crap.

1:37:02 The tribe of Dan. I love this lady. Thank you very much. And the EU strives to create a similar situation. Well, yeah, that's a good analogy, Donny Vision. They want a United States of Europe, basically like the United States of the US, but only under that pan-European section so that they can designate Germany.

1:37:36 the controlling mechanism, and then you've got the pan-British empire, the pan-America, and so on. Let's see. Understand the goal was to be comparable to the U.S. Well, let's see. If you look at what the stated goal was and then what actually happened, yeah, you're right.

1:38:10 You have to look at what actually happens, not what they tell you. Was werewolf creator Serbian? No, General Wolf and General Galen were the ones that came up with the term, the werewolf units. And they did that because of the analogy between citizen by day and killer by night. And then that's kind of like the werewolf, you know.

1:38:38 turns into a werewolf at night and kills people. That same kind of analogy. Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated by a werewolf type unit called the Black Hand. That's why I ask. So I will tell you that 1942.

1:39:08 and according to this book, 1941, may have been the creation of what we call Operation Gladiator. It is not the creation of this concept. This concept we traced back to the late 1800s in the use of the early 1900s, like 1901 or 2, with the Boer Wars. And so this has been a thing for a while.

1:39:34 There is a lot of conversation, you're absolutely right, Donny Vision, about the assassination of Ferdinand being a false flag to begin World War I. Absolutely. There are a lot of people that say that's absolutely what happened. And of course, you know, World War I set up the situation for reparations and then...

1:40:03 Reparations was used to create the Bank of International Settlement. That was used to basically create World War II. And then World War II created all of the other international institutions. And so you just see the evolutionary snowballing of the new world government coming into formation via warfare. You guys are so good. Gladio, another one bites the dust. Oh, Donny Vision, you're bad.

1:40:34 But you're also right. I think we need a new song called Dead Man Walking. Because as soon as you double cross the U.S. State Department or the CIA, or you go against what MI6 tells you you need to do, you are dead man walking. So, yeah, I absolutely think that's true. Maybe we can get Snow to do us an AI song.

1:41:01 for dead man walking i think i'm gonna ask him uh gladiator operations like the hotel california you can't ever leave you guys are good um that's absolutely uh let's see drag back x has me banned oh i'm sorry about that rosie that's awful um let's see

1:41:34 Thank you, Colonel Tribe of Dan. You're very welcome. Let's see. What else we got? Hi, Bridget. And Oldtimer. Frogger. You're all here. Awesome. Okay, so that's it for tonight. I will see you on something tomorrow. Either the radio on X or the...

1:42:16 Alpha Warrior chat starting at nine o'clock, something. If I can squeeze in an hour show continuing our South American Gladio series in the middle of the day, I definitely will do that. But tomorrow, as I said, it's going to be packed with the recording in the morning, the show at night, and then the radio show in the morning or in the middle of the afternoon at one o'clock. So hope to see you at one of those things.

1:42:45 If not, definitely on Thursday, we'll be doing both the noon show and our book review. And we will pick up where we left off here. So thanks again, everybody for being here and talk to you soon.

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Danielle Ganser studied_at U.S. State Department book_quoted ▶ 0:43

“That he wrote, he was a graduate student and he was looking for a subject to do his doctoral thesis on. And he ran across a CIA critic by the name of William Bloom. And he had resigned from the State …”

William Black member_of U.S. State Department book_quoted ▶ 0:43

William Black exposed Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 1:15

“Ganser that NATO had a Gladio program consisting of a secret army that he thought needed to be looked into. And hold on, I gotta say hey to these guys. So he suggested to Daniel Ganser that he look in…”

Operation Gladio operated_in Italy book_quoted ▶ 1:55

“had been written in most of Europe. Quite a bit had been exposed in Italy. So Ganser produced the first clear evidence showing how the network and the program was designed and how it was supposed to d…”

Danielle Ganser exposed Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 1:55

Claudio Sani proposed Strategy of tension book_quoted ▶ 3:32

“But obviously, we've been in this long enough to understand what it meant. And it appears that term came from another researcher by the name of Claudio Solani, who was an Italian investigator looking …”

George Robertson headed NATO book_quoted ▶ 4:57

“An alliance ostensibly dedicated to the high humanitarian issues had basically began manipulating groups, as we will see later. Former NATO Secretary General Baron Robertson once spoke glowingly of hi…”

NATO carried_out_attack Serbia book_quoted ▶ 6:00

“in April 1999 was justified to silence a propaganda mouthpiece. 16 people going about their normal duties on the night died when several missiles slammed into the building in the center of Belgrade. N…”

NATO carried_out_attack Belgrade book_quoted ▶ 6:00

Wesley Clark headed NATO book_quoted ▶ 9:32

“I made a few notes. Wesley Clark was also the South Com commander in 1996 when Bill Clinton was in office. And he was also, as we recently learned, in charge of Fort Hood during Waco, where he helped …”

Wesley Clark operated_in Fort Hood book_quoted ▶ 9:32

MI6 supplied_arms_to Hungary book_quoted ▶ 10:38

“out of line themselves by running guns through Hungary and Croatia to arm the anti-Muslim front during the Serbian crisis. This was to prove a significant factor in the turf war between the CIA and MI…”

MI6 supplied_arms_to Croatia book_quoted ▶ 10:38

Anders Fogh Rasmussen headed NATO book_quoted ▶ 14:14

“The Grand Pumba of NATO, who at the time was Anders Fogh Rasmussen, stated in March of 2010 that NATO is a permanent alliance whose self-appointed duties will include intervening in the affairs of so-…”

NATO dissolved Warsaw Pact book_quoted ▶ 14:43

“and not just of NATO countries, literally everywhere in the world. What he did not say, although it's true, is that no member will be easily permitted to exit the alliance, unlike the Warsaw Pact, whi…”

Nicholas Burns member_of NATO book_quoted ▶ 18:38

“which serves as a clear warning to anyone who's thinking about getting out. In 2003, the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Nicholas Burns, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, quote, NATO needs to pivo…”

United States Department of Defense funded Ergenekon book_quoted ▶ 23:42

“Turkish commentators immediately recognized the reincarnation of the former Gladio operation in Turkey, which basically went by many different names. They were called counter guerrillas. They were cal…”

Ergenekon front_for Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 23:42

United States Department of Defense trained Ergenekon book_quoted ▶ 23:42

Abdullah Gül member_of Justice and Development Party book_quoted ▶ 24:15

“and a particular group in the Turkish military. So basically, it had been used to contaminate the Turkish political culture by buying into it. Turkey has witnessed a miraculous transformation brought …”

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan member_of Justice and Development Party book_quoted ▶ 27:24

“Prime Minister Recep Erdogan delivered a powerful admonishing lecture to the world for its collective shame over torturing that was occurring in Somalia, a vast racial pogrom which had proceeded unaba…”

Turkey did_business_with Iran book_quoted ▶ 28:23

“right across the Middle East. Her prized $10 billion worth of trade with Iran, much of it tied to oil and gas, spoke volumes louder than the sanctions or bombs or the Israelis. President Abdinijab, Wa…”

Turkey did_business_with Brazil book_quoted ▶ 28:54

“Another red flag waved at the U.S. and the Zionist Israelis. And obviously he was president. He's no longer president, but he was a president when the book was written. In May of 2010, Turkey and Braz…”

Turkey did_business_with Russia book_quoted ▶ 29:30

“by Russia and China, thereby dealing an unexpected blow to the American-Israeli war party. Then came the Gaza convoy raid of June 2011, in which eight Turkish citizens and one Turkish American died at…”

Turkey funded Hamas book_quoted ▶ 29:30

Ergenekon carried_out_attack Turkey book_quoted ▶ 33:21

“which gained international notoriety, featured the ritualistic disemboweling alive in April 2007 of three Turkish Christians employed by a Bible publishing house in a large city in the eastern Anatoli…”

Republican Party front_for Operation Gladio book_quoted ▶ 36:48

“is purely superficial. It is basically the party of the Operation Gladio, and they are very close with the EU. They are the Turkish version of social fascism close to Francoism, which, of course, was …”

Yigal Carmon member_of Middle East Institute host_asserted ▶ 39:48

“A fiction controlled by the government itself, in short, a reverse coup, which of course is not true. This is a strident running theme of the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute, who…”

Yigal Carmon member_of Mossad host_asserted ▶ 40:18

“a former colonel in the Israeli military intelligence and personal security advisor to Shamir and Rabin. Now, just this is so interesting. You have an Israeli military intelligence colonel working in …”

Fethullah Gülen attempted_coup_against Recep Tayyip Erdoğan host_asserted ▶ 41:56

“Erdogan then whirled against Gulen as himself plotting to overthrow the president. So, you know, Gulen's now in Pennsylvania because he was plotting to overthrow Erdogan. So basically, our State Depar…”

Ergenekon front_for Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 45:36

“and the sharp edge of strategy of tension for a very long time, costing a very high price, which is something that we see routinely happening in many of these places. The exposure of Ergenikon, their …”

Ottavio Andriotti exposed Operation Gladio documented ▶ 48:38

“It was apparently equipped with its own clandestine commando army operating outside of all established military structures. Andriotti was on his finest polished form. Gently, he told the senators by c…”

Felice Casson exposed Operation Gladio documented ▶ 52:54

“exposing the Italian state as institutionally corrupt at every level and who the collaborators were. Cassone told reporters that there was clear evidence now existing to connect Gladio secret soldiers…”

Francesco Cossiga covered_up Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 53:24

“of explosive power. Cassone soon understood what sort of welcome his work was likely to receive from no less than the president, Francesco Cossiga. In the course of a remarkable eulogy to Gladio deliv…”

Guy Coëme exposed Operation Gladio documented ▶ 53:53

“Meanwhile, in a devastating libel, he reviled the magistrate investigating Gladio as inspired by subversive ideals. So blame the guy who's trying to tell the truth. A string of revelations concerning …”

Kemal Yılmaz exposed Operation Gladio documented ▶ 54:25

“of sleeping soldiers and was followed by his Greek counterpart who admitted another troop known as sheepskin. That's what it was called in Greece. Turkey shared with Italy the experience of decades-lo…”

Bülent Ecevit exposed Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 56:25

“into the existence of the counter-guerrillas immediately after he began his first term as premier in 1974. Esavet, who was locked up after General Evren's counter-guerrillas and CIA back coup in 1980,…”

Reinhard Gehlen founded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 57:57

“Yet when push comes to shove, how many of these volunteers would risk being caught by the Russians? Good question. Even before the formal establishment of NATO in the spring of 1949, scouts from the C…”

Reinhard Gehlen did_business_with Allen Dulles host_asserted ▶ 58:32

“primarily in the Axis countries, and that he made the deal with Alan Dulles before the CIA ever stood up because it was done under the OSS. Galen was taken to the OSS headquarters in Washington, D.C.,…”

Otto Hallberg member_of Sveaborg host_asserted ▶ 1:02:03

“In 1953, a notorious racist and SS commander named Otto Hallberg fell into the hands of the Swedish police on suspicion of promoting terrorism. During interrogation, he let slip that he was the leadin…”

Otto Hallberg trained Otto Skorzeny host_asserted ▶ 1:02:32

“The relaxed and chatty Hallberg entertained his custodians with a remarkable tale of how he received his on-the-job training as far back as 1941, which precedes 1942 when Hitler began it with Otto Sko…”

Oswald Mosley did_business_with Otto Hallberg host_asserted ▶ 1:06:17

“That was a ally to the British black shirt leader, Sir Oswald Mosley. They worked together in the 1950s designing an anti-Semitic pan-European fascist confederation. Oswald Mosley is the guy we've quo…”

William Colby recruited Otto Hallberg host_asserted ▶ 1:06:47

“Pan-America, Pan-Europe, all of that concept of the Fabian Society and the British Roundtable. They worked together in the 1950s. Let's see. When he was in Stockholm setting up the Sweveborg unit, Bil…”

Peter G. Peterson assassinated Olof Palme documented ▶ 1:11:02

“Close to midnight on 28 February 1986, he was leaving the Grand Cinema in central Stockholm with his wife. A figure stepped out from the shadows with a revolver and shot him in the back, the barrel po…”

H.H.A. Cooper authored The Murder of Olaf Palme documented ▶ 1:14:06

“They talk a little bit about his background and it kind of made him like the perfect candidate to be the stooge of the person blamed, kind of like a Jack Ruby. We shall never know what he intended to …”

Lawrence Redlinger authored The Murder of Olaf Palme documented ▶ 1:14:06

Olof Palme recruited Stay-behind units host_asserted ▶ 1:17:38

“a former agent in the Swedish military intelligence, shed light on the dark corners when he said, Olaf Palm, cooperation with the Americans and the CIA was well known through the military intelligence…”

Olof Palme member_of Swedish military host_asserted ▶ 1:17:38

Olof Palme relationship_with William Colby host_asserted ▶ 1:18:08

“William Colby. As Prime Minister, Palm hosted the May 1973 Bilderberg Enclave at the Grand Hotel close to Stockholm alongside Marcus Wallenberg. Can't talk about Sweden without talking about the Walle…”

Marcus Wallenberg member_of Wallenberg family host_asserted ▶ 1:18:08

F. William Engdahl authored A Century of War book_quoted ▶ 1:18:39

“It was a pivotal Bilderberg meeting as documented by William Engdahl in A Century of War. An American viceroy, probably Bilderberg regular Henry Kissinger, presented the vassals of Europe a darling st…”

Henry Kissinger proposed Young Turk War host_asserted ▶ 1:19:10

“a long-term turnaround from growth to greening, controlling economies rather than growing them. A few months later, Kissinger instigated the Young Kipper War, which gave the Saudis the pretext for the…”

Dag Hammarskjold died_in Congo host_asserted ▶ 1:19:41

“He was the second secretary general, and he is also the one that was murdered, assassinated on his way to help the Congo. We've read about him before, too. He died on September 1961 when his official …”

Otto Skorzeny ordered_assassination_of Patrice Lumumba host_asserted ▶ 1:21:11

“after they shut him off and wouldn't let him renegotiate their contracts for the uranium. And they also brought in Otto Skorzeny to murder him. Rescuers certainly dragged their feet getting to the sce…”

Richard Ben-Veniste exposed Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:23:46

“especially if he's going to both Iraq and Iran negotiating a peace settlement. The accumulation of evidence which points to a Gladio contract killing is compelling. Two CIA whistleblowers suggested th…”

Gene Chipp Tatum exposed Operation Pegasus host_asserted ▶ 1:24:13

“An Iran-Contra operations pilot who claimed Palm was a victim of an unknown CIA secret assassination program called Pegasus. In April 1992, one of the Swedish newspapers published a series of articles…”

Michael Townley operated_in Stockholm host_asserted ▶ 1:24:13

Michael Townley relationship_with Stefano Delle Chiaie host_asserted ▶ 1:25:11

“Andriotti, an urgent letter pleading for advice on what to do. Andriotti maintained his usual silence, and he had sound reason to do so. Townley was a close associate of the Italian fascist Stefano De…”

Stefano Delle Chiaie laundered_money_for Vatican host_asserted ▶ 1:25:44

“Gelli's P2 Lodge. He was actually a member of it. He was on good terms with many of the Gladio operators inside of Italy who were operating the secret finance conduits within the Vatican, i.e. money l…”

Stefano Delle Chiaie member_of P2 Masonic Lodge host_asserted ▶ 1:25:44

Michael Townley member_of Operation Condor host_asserted ▶ 1:26:13

“That's the name of the organization in Portugal. And you had the guy that's referred to as God's terrorist, Yves-Garin Serac, and his agenda press game. So you have both Townley and Delachey, key figu…”

Aginter Press operated_in Portugal host_asserted ▶ 1:26:13

Stefano Delle Chiaie member_of Operation Condor host_asserted ▶ 1:26:13

Stefano Delle Chiaie member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:26:13

Michael Townley member_of Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:26:13

Operation Condor operated_in Fort Bragg host_asserted ▶ 1:26:49

“Some 60,000 deaths of leftists and so-called revolutionaries would be laying against Western-backed death squads, all trained by these guys. Condor's operational tentacles ran through Fort Bragg Army …”

Michael Townley carried_out_attack Orlando Letelier host_asserted ▶ 1:27:18

“In 1974, he exploded a radio control car bomb in Benaziris, which killed General Carlos Prats Gonzalez, deputy to the assassinated Chilean president, Salvador Allende. Two years later in Washington, h…”

Michael Townley carried_out_attack Carlos Prats host_asserted ▶ 1:27:18

Francesco Gullino operated_in Copenhagen host_asserted ▶ 1:28:20

“A second figure with a strong connection to gladial contract assassination programs now appears in the Stockholm frame, which is a shadowy Danish-Italian called Francesco Galano, living in next door C…”

Francesco Gullino assassinated Georgi Markov host_asserted ▶ 1:28:20

France removed_from_power NATO host_asserted ▶ 1:33:49

“They can actually leave. They try to make it as hard as possible. And the reason France left is because NATO kept trying to kill Charles de Gaulle. So he pulled the forces out and they didn't rejoin u…”

Reinhard Gehlen founded Operation Gladio host_asserted ▶ 1:38:10

“You have to look at what actually happens, not what they tell you. Was werewolf creator Serbian? No, General Wolf and General Galen were the ones that came up with the term, the werewolf units. And th…”

Black Hand assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand host_asserted ▶ 1:38:38

“turns into a werewolf at night and kills people. That same kind of analogy. Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated by a werewolf type unit called the Black Hand. That's why I ask. So I will tell you that…”