CONTACT ME: Email: paranaughtica@gmail.com Twitter: @paranaughtica Facebook: The Paranaughtica Podcast Today, we are talking about Operation Gladio, and SO much more. What was Operation Gladio? Operation Gladio was the codename for clandestine "stay-behind" operations of armed resistance that were organized by the Western Union (WU) (founded in 1948), and subsequently by NATO (formed in 1949) and by the CIA (established in 1947), in collaboration with several European intelligence agencies during the Cold War. That’s the basic description.The thing is, is that the U.S. government, and many other governments who are part of the United Nations and tout about “how important human rights are”, but are responsible for millions of peoples deaths.....but it’s SO much more than that!!!Quit reading this and go listen to the episode!!!! ***If you’d like to help out with a donation and you’re currently listening on Spotify, you can simply scroll down on my page and you’ll see a button to help me out with either a one-time donation or you can set up a monthly recurring donation. You can also go to the Facebook page where I have a link to Ko-Fi and Pay-Pal if you'd like to help out the show. I would greatly appreciate it! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ladies and gentlemen, there's a whole lot of stuff going on in the world today, as you know.
And if you keep up with the news cycle, then you know that our government is full of treasonous individuals who have proven, openly, For example,
in the latest aid package, if you can even call it that, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a military aid package worth $95 billion to support Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, with about $61 billion going directly to Ukraine.
Now, first of all, every...
American citizen who has a working brain in their skull knows that that money should be going to us, the American citizens who are suffering in this country and who are struggling to make ends meet and put enough food on the table.
I mean, that money should be used to help alleviate the inflation going on, maybe?
Or the rising gas prices?
I don't know.
Or maybe even medical care?
Who knows?
You know, maybe, maybe.
That money should be going to helping alleviate some of the homelessness.
It should be going to veterans who have fought for this country, who apparently don't care about them.
It should be going to help the drug and crime rehabilitation.
It should be going to all these, I don't know, school and veteran programs.
Things that could help benefit us here.
It should be going towards citizens' rights groups.
It should be going toward fixing our bridges and cleaning our streets.
It should be going toward fixing our own country.
And it isn't that they, the Biden administration or any administration, don't see the degradation of the United States and the horrible state of things because they see it.
They obviously see it because they create it.
So, yeah, that money should be going to us.
I mean, it's our money to begin with.
We are forced to pay in taxes under the threat of imprisonment, sort of like coercion.
But no, the people in charge don't clean the streets unless a foreign dictator comes over to make a little visit.
Which is another huge problem in itself.
The fact that China and other foreign countries can just purchase land, shipping ports, or whatever else our so-called leaders will gladly sell them as they lie to our faces.
But as it is, another $95 billion is stolen from us and given to the governments of foreign countries.
As in, the vast majority, and I mean vast majority, of that money isn't even going to the citizens.
Of those countries.
That is, the people who actually need it, like ourselves.
Instead, it's going straight to the governments so their militaries can kill people and destroy property.
Yay! But, oh yeah, by the way, by the way, have you seen how many dance clubs there are in Ukraine?
There are a lot.
And they are all packed with people partying their happy little asses off with huge smiles on their faces, double fisting drinks.
Right smack dab in the middle of a war.
Right? Isn't that weird?
Pretty ironic.
Anyway, on Saturday, April 20th, right before commemorating Adolf Hitler's 56th birthday, U.S. lawmakers passed out Ukrainian flags to everyone on the floor of U.S. Congress and gleefully waved them around as they completely ignored the destitute and struggling people on the streets of their own country.
Now, I can't say for certain that they were celebrating Hitler's birthday, but come on.
We all know what happened to the Nazis after World War II.
President Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine, the asshat himself, expressed his personal gratitude to the Biden crime family and administration and will likely add another yacht and another mansion to his growing collection,
all thanks to the U.S. government straight up robbing the American people and literally handing the money to him, just as he was handed a list.
Of every member of Congress who supported him.
Which you can watch.
It's another slap to our faces.
These people.
So, who is really running this country?
Because it's not patriotic Americans.
I think we can all agree on that.
Secondly, it's been clear as day for years that Israel has been committing genocide of the Palestinians.
I mean, clear as day.
On March 27, 2024, Francesca Albanese, a special reporter with the United Nations Human Rights Council, said that there are reasonable grounds to believe that Israel is, quote, committing the crime of genocide against the Palestinians as a group in Gaza,
end quote.
Speaking at a press conference, Albanese said that, quote, Israel has committed three acts of genocide with a requisite intent, killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, and deliberately inflicting
on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part, end quote.
The Human Rights Watch has also openly condemned Israel for its crimes.
According to their reports, between the start of 2023 and December 12 of the same year, Israel forces had killed 464 Palestinians, including 109 children in the West Bank alone, which is more than twice as many as in any other year since 2005,
which is when the UN began recording fatalities.
Do you see a pattern there?
The point is that the US government is more than happy to take away from its own citizens and give to foreign governments that are openly committing genocide on a daily basis and engaged in quote-unquote war where thousands of innocent people have been,
are being, and will be senselessly raped, murdered, or scarred for the rest of their lives.
All on our dime.
When all we want, right?
When all we want here in the United States as citizens is to enjoy what freedoms that we have left and want no part in the death of others.
Well, I'll correct that because there are a lot of people in this country who really do want to kill other people and root for this sort of stuff.
Fuck all of you people, alright?
Fuck anybody that is like that.
I'm just going to stand on that.
So, yeah, that's where I stand.
First, as a human being...
And then second as an American.
So, let's kind of just segue into the start of this episode here.
There are a couple of important things going on right now that are relevant to the topic of today, which is a little CIA operation called Operation Gladio.
A quote often attributed to Aldous Huxley.
But was popularized by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa in the 1990s.
It goes as such, quote, End quote.
Now, that one quote sums up exactly how we are living our lives today, whether we want to or not, and it's been going on for a very long time.
But the following comes from an article by State of the Nation posted in 2018.
Quote, Just like the Soviet Union of the last century,
there are no secrets.
Only now, there are really no secrets anywhere in the 50 states.
Not only is there a vast network of undercover citizen spies who operate in every county, Agents of the very deep state are surreptitiously inserted into every organization of note nationwide.
The present national security state, with its full-spectrum surveillance regime and spying apparatus, actually functions as a full-blown communist police state where the FBI equals the KGB, literally.
The shadow government, a clandestine, autocratic, and all-powerful global entity, That oversees the U.S. federal government uses Operation Gladio via NATO command and control to manufacture consent via government-sponsored terrorism.
Mass shootings, in particular, are methodically used in this way to terrorize the body politic into supporting draconian measures that erode national sovereignty.
Undermining the American Republic is the single most important objective of Operation Gladio.
Other nations are experiencing their own versions of Operation Gladio as seen throughout the European Union, the Middle East, South Asia, Central and South America, Mexico, etc.
So that should give you a pretty good idea of where we are today.
And what was or is Operation Gladio, you ask?
Operation Gladio is well known throughout intelligence circles and military leadership worldwide as a covert and ongoing NATO-run terrorist operation.
NATO and its members like for it to be called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but to those with first-hand knowledge of NATO's many false-flag terrorist attacks conducted all throughout the world, Quietly call it the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization,
which is a much more adequate name to suit its practices, and I will be doing an entire episode just on NATO in the future.
It's very interesting.
But there is a voluminous body of evidence, which points directly to an intimate collaboration of the CIA, FBI, NSA, DHS, DOD, Local law enforcement, as well as many other silent partners, such as Serco in the execution of Operation Gladio Black Operations.
Serco is headquartered in Hook, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, and covers all the behind-the-scenes work that is necessary to successfully manage the cover-ups for their operations.
Probably just one of many, I assume.
But some say that nearly every mass shooting and bombing that has taken place in the USA since President John F. Kennedy held office has been carried out according to the dictates of NATO's Operation Gladio.
An objective assessment of the three biggest bombings in the U.S. mainland since 1990 clearly indicates government-sponsored terrorism.
You know what I mean?
But... The three largest domestic attacks I just referred to are 1. The 1993 World Trade Center bombing 2. The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and 3. The 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Furthermore, it has been proven both scientifically and practically To successfully implement the domestic terrorist attacks,
it would have required a massive and highly organized network of co-conspirators, and such an effective and sophisticated network could only be carried out with the full cooperation.
Of the U.S. intelligence community, which includes the CIA, FBI, NSA, ATF, DIA, at least, you know, at the very least.
Because, come on, no citizen's militia is going to be able to carry out these types of attacks with the type and caliber of explosives that were used and successfully cover up their tracks all on their own without any help from the government agencies whose experience and training is specifically to spy on,
disrupt, and terrorize people.
Obviously, it's not just some homegrown group of militia people or whatever carrying out any of these attacks.
In each case, those who were accused of the crimes, the Patsies, were falsely accused, wrongfully convicted, and harshly sentenced for the acts that they did not commit.
Another pattern.
And because of the sheer depth and breadth of these false flag operations, the people responsible for these attacks, both past and present and future, Also received some form of approval from high-ranking government officials, as well as support and material from various agents of the deep state,
which I covered last week, actually.
And as you may know, the materials used in the three attacks previously mentioned, the 93 World Trade Center bombing, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the 2001 World Trade Center attacks bombing, was scientifically proven to be milligrade...
milligrade. It was scientifically proven to be military-grade explosives, as in it was created using a perfect combination of certain materials, giving it a unique chemical composition, which could only have come from military sources.
But it is no secret that Silicon Valley tech corporations are likewise conscripted to support these operations.
So, you got the tech, and you got the military.
The meticulously staged attacks and subsequent cover-ups are executed as false flag operations designed specifically to terrorize the American people.
Now, there are so many people who simply cannot believe that their own government would want to lie to them or would want to harm them, let alone kill them, right?
Well, the fact of the matter is, well, they do lie to us, daily.
And yes, they do want to harm us.
Daily. And yes, they do want to kill us.
Daily. Those are the cold hard facts of the matter.
And if people don't believe me, all you need to do is the simplest, most basic of research into these things.
The stuff I'm doing and presenting to you guys.
So hopefully this will suffice.
But why would the government want to do such a horrible thing?
Well, simple.
For control.
It's been in the works of thousands of years, and in today's day and age, they commonly use such tactics as domestic terrorism in the form of bombings and shootings as a means to instigate a state of emergency.
Right? Now, why would they want to instigate a state of emergency?
Why would they want to do that?
Because they use their orchestrated attacks as a means to implement new laws, new restrictions, new sanctions, new mandates, etc., which are all used as a means to eradicate our civil freedoms and liberties, which are supposed to be detected by the U.S. Constitution.
But we all know what's going on with that.
And they achieve this by creating a state of fear that results in public obedience through their compliance, you know, of doing what the government tells them.
They create a problem, they watch the reaction, and then they offer people the solution.
Right? They create the problem, they analyze the reaction, and they give the solution.
Which is all planned far in advance like a script, because they have human behavioral scientists who just study people.
They study us as groups and as individuals, know our behaviors.
So they instituted the National Security Act, the Patriot Act, FISA.
Everything COVID-related, this is all part of that problem-reaction-solution thing.
And terrorism, by its very nature, creates an atmosphere of extreme tension, which creates fear.
And the very purpose of Operation Gladio is to generate so much tension and fear throughout the United States that the people essentially beg for the government to save them.
This is exactly how so-called laws are made.
They are manufactured.
It's manufactured consent.
That's what paves the way for oppressive legislation that further subjugates us, the people.
Unfortunately, because we seem to not be able to organize ourselves and stand against the more than obvious tyranny, we simply allow them to subjugate us by being passive.
Right? Anyway, it was all the deliberate implementation of this strategy of tension throughout Europe that allowed for the totalitarian super-state, known as the European Union, to be established, which, instead of decreasing terrorism, we see that terrorism has only steadily increased.
Tenfold, hundredfold, I don't even know, it's just so much.
So much.
The U.S. government also used these tactics to justify their illegal and illegitimate wars with foreign countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and Yemen and Somalia and Libya and Niger, which is really interesting because back in 2007,
retired General Wesley Clark, a former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, super dope name, Revealed that the Bush-Cheney administration had some ambitious plans to take out seven countries within five years.
And those countries happened to be Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.
And what did all of those countries have in common?
Not only are they all in the same general geographical location, but they also didn't have a Rothschild-owned central bank.
Currently, a few of those countries still don't have one.
But the point is that a few of them now do.
The ones that the government went to war with, right?
Now, before we go any further into how Operation Gladio works, it's necessary to give a little history of where it all started, and then we'll work our way to the present.
Operation Gladio was the codename for clandestine stay-behind operations of armed resistance that were organized by the Western Union, founded in 1948, and subsequently by NATO, formed in 1949, and by the CIA,
established in 1947, in collaboration with several European intelligence agencies during the Cold War.
Although Gladio specifically refers to the Italian branch of the NATO stay-behind organizations, Operation Gladio is used as an informal name for all of them.
Stay-behind operations were prepared in many NATO member countries and in some neutral countries.
According to several Western European researchers, the operation involved the use of assassination.
Psychological warfare and false flag operations to delegitimize left-wing parties in Western European countries, and even went so far as to support anti-communist militias and right-wing terrorism as they tortured communists and assassinated them,
such as Eduardo Mondlane in 1969.
The United States Department of State rejected the view that they supported terrorism.
And maintains that the operation served only to resist a potential invasion of Western European countries by the Soviet Union.
Yeah. Bullshit.
But following the fall of France in 1940, Winston Churchill created the Special Operations Executive, or the SOE, to both assist resistance movements and carry out sabotage and subversive operations in occupied Europe.
It was revealed half a century later that SOE was added to by another stay-behind network in Britain, created in extreme secrecy to prepare for a possible invasion by Nazi Germany.
A network of resistance fighters was formed across Britain and arms caches were established.
The network was recruited in part from the 5th Ski Battalion of the Scots Guards.
The network, which became known as the Auxiliary Units, was headed by Major Colin Gubbins, who was an expert in guerrilla warfare and who would later lead the SOE.
The units were trained in part by Mad Mike Calvert, a Royal Engineer's Officer who specialized in explosives and demolitions, as well as covert raiding operations.
The network was allegedly disbanded in 1944.
Where some of its members subsequently joined the Special Air Service and fought in Northwest Europe.
Their existence was not widely known until reporters such as David Pallister of The Guardian revived interest in them during the 1990s.
Then it all started coming out.
But after World War II, the UK and the US decided to create a stay-behind paramilitary organization.
with the official aim of countering a possible Soviet invasion through sabotage and guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines.
Arms caches were hidden all throughout European countries, and escape routes were prepared, and loyal members were recruited.
Its clandestine cells were to stay behind in enemy-controlled territory and to act as resistance movements, conducting sabotage, guerrilla warfare, and assassinations.
NATO provided a forum to integrate, coordinate, and optimize the use of all stay-behind assets as part of the emergency war plan.
In 1947, France, the United Kingdom, and other ally countries had created a joint policy on stay-behind networks in the Western Union Clandestine Committee, which was the European Defense Alliance that predated NATO.
The Clandestine Planning Committee The CPC itself had at least two working groups,
one in communications and one in networks.
Sasauer, we're just going to pronounce Sasauer, S-A-C-E-U-R, or the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe.
Also established a special projects branch to develop and coordinate clandestine forces operating in support of Sassauer's military forces.
In 1957, the United States, United Kingdom, France, and the Benelieu Union, all of which ran safe-behind networks in Western Europe, established the Six Powers Lines Committee.
which became the Allied Clandestine Committee in 1958 and, after 1976, became the Allied Coordination Committee for the ACC.
The ACC has been described as a technical committee to bring national stay-behinds together.
In case of war, Sassauer was meant to exercise operational control of National Clandestine Services' assets according to each nation's existing policies.
By 1961, it was accepted that stay-behind activity, or guerrilla warfare in other words, was purely national responsibility.
NATO's stay-behind organizations were never called upon to resist a Soviet invasion, as we all know, and according to a November 13, 1990 Reuters cable, André Moyen, a former member of the Belgian Military Security Service and of the local stay-behind network,
He said that Gladio was not just anti-communist, but was also for fighting subversion in general.
He added that his predecessor had given Gladio 142 million francs, or about $155 million today, to buy new radio equipment.
And, obviously, a lot of other stuff.
So, alright.
Let's get into the individual countries that were involved in the early Gladio operations.
First up, Italy.
That's where it all started.
The Italian NATO stay-behind organization, dubbed Gladio, was set up under Minister of Defense Paolo Taviani.
Gladio's existence came to public knowledge when Prime Minister Giorgio Angiotti revealed it to the Chamber of Deputies on October 24, 1990.
Although far-right terrorist Vincenzo Vinciguera had already revealed its existence during his 1984 trial for the murder of three carabinieri by a car bomb in Pateano in 1972.
You have to do the accent.
You just can't help it.
It just comes out like that.
According to media analyst Edward S. Herman, A note from March 1972 specified that the possibility of using Gladio in the event of internal
subversions, not provided for by the organization statute and not supported by NATO directives or plans, End quote.
Angiotti spoke of a structure of information, response, and safeguard.
With arms caches and reserve officers.
He gave a list of 622 civilians who, according to him, were part of Gladio.
To the Commissione Stagi, or the Commissione Stagi, a parliamentary commission of inquiry into terrorism in Italy.
Andriati declared that the Italian military services, the predecessors of the Sismi, had joined in 1964.
The Allied Clandestine Committee created in 1957 by the U.S., France, Belgium, and Greece, and which was in charge of directing Gladio's operations.
However, Gladio was actually set up under Minister of Defense Paolo Taviani's supervision.
Besides, the list of Gladio members given by Angiotti was incomplete.
For example, it didn't include Antonio Arconti, who described an organization very different from the one described by Giorgio Angiotti.
It was an organization closely tied to the Italian Secret Service and Intelligence Agency.
The judge, Guitto Salvini, who worked in the Italian Massacres Commission, found out that several far-right terrorist organizations were the trench troops of a secret army who were linked to the CIA.
Salvini would say, quote, End quote.
Judge Gerardo de Ambrogio would come to find that there were instructions to infiltrate left-wing groups and provoke social tension by carrying out attacks and then blame them on the left.
Sound familiar to anyone?
Hmm. In 2000, a parliamentary commission report brought to light the fact that a strategy of tension had been supported by the United States to stop The report stated that U.S. intelligence
agents were informed in advance about several terrorist bombings, including the December 1969 Piazza Fantana bombing in Milan and the Piazza della Ioggia bombing in Brescia five years later, but
that they did nothing to alert the Italian authorities or to prevent the attacks from taking place.
Almost like they set them up themselves.
And where have we heard that?
General Gerardo Cerevali, who commanded the Italian gladiator...
General Gerardo Cerevali, who commanded the Italian gladio...
From 1971 to 1974 would say, These representatives of the secret structures met every year in one of the capitals.
At the stay-behind meetings, representatives of the CIA were always present.
They had no voting rights and were from the CIA headquarters of the Capitol in which the meeting took place.
Members of the U.S. Forces Europe Command were present as well, also without voting rights.
End quote.
So, huh.
I mean, come on.
The Allied Clandestine Committee was responsible for coordinating the stay-behind networks in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Holland, Norway, United Kingdom, and the United States.
During peacetime, the activities of the ACC included elaborating the directives for the network, developing its clandestine capability, and organizing bases in Britain and the United States.
In wartime, it was to plan stay-behind operations.
Organizers were to activate clandestine bases and organize operations from there.
Italian Gladio members would be trained at a military base in Britain.
And now we head to Belgium.
After the 1967 withdrawal of France from NATO's military structure, the headquarters were displaced to Mons, Belgium.
In 1990, after France's denied having any stay-behind network, Giulio Angiotti The minister of defense would acknowledge the existence of a Belgian stay-behind network,
raising concerns about similar terrorist attacks.
The same year, the European Parliament sharply condemned NATO and the United States in a resolution for having manipulated European politics with the stay-behind networks.
The Danish stay-behind army was codenamed Absalom after a Danish archbishop and led by E.J. Harder and was deeply embedded in the military secret service.
William Colby, a former director of the CIA, Released his memoirs in which he described the setting up of stay-behind armies in Scandinavia.
He spoke about supplying the networks with weapons and military equipment, and noted that the CIA would have to do the job alone, or with, at best, unofficial, quote-unquote, local help, since the politics of those governments barred them from collaborating with NATO.
And any exposure would arouse immediate protests from the local communist press, Soviet diplomats, and loyal Scandinavians who hoped that neutrality or non-alignment would allow them to slip through a World War III unharmed.
1947, Interior Minister Edward de Pru revealed the existence of a secret stay-behind army in France codenamed
Plan bleu.
Whatever. The next year, the Western Union Clandestine Committee, or the WUCC, was created to coordinate secret unorthodox warfare.
In 1949, the WUCC was integrated into NATO, whose headquarters were established in France under the codename Clandestine Planning Committee, or CPC.
In 1958, NATO founded the Allied Clandestine Committee, ACC, to coordinate secret warfare.
The network had military support from the 11th Chak regime.
The former director of DGSE, Admiral Pierre Lacoste, alleged in a 1992 interview with the nation that certain elements from the network were involved in terrorist activities against Degas and his Algerian policy.
François de Grosouvray was Gladia's leader for the region around Lyon in France until his alleged suicide on April 7, 1994.
Konstantin Melnik, leader of the French Secret Services during the Algerian War of Independence, was living in comfortable exile in the U.S., where he maintained links with the Rand Corporation, And is alleged to have been involved in the creation of the Ordre Souverain du Tempel Solare,
a predecessor of the order of the solar temple the let's redo this and is alleged to have been involved in this creation of the order a suverain do temple solere a predecessor of the order of
the solar temple you
U.S. intelligence also assisted in the setup of at least one West German stay-behind network.
CIA documents released in June of 2006 under the 1998 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act show that the CIA organized stay-behind networks of West German agents between 1949 and 1953.
According to the Western Post, excuse me, According to the Washington Post, one network included at least two former Nazi SS members, Staff Sergeant Heinrich Hoffman and Lieutenant Colonel Hans Roos,
and one was run by Lieutenant Colonel Walter Kopp, a former German Army officer referred to by the CIA as an unreconstructed Nazi.
And the network was disbanded in 1953 amid political concerns that some members, neo-Nazi sympathies, would be exposed.
End quote.
Documents shown to the Italian Parliamentary Terrorism Committee revealed that in the 1970s, British and French officials involved in the network visited a training base in Germany built with U.S. money.
In 1976, West German Secret Service Secretary Heidron Hofer was arrested after having revealed the secrets of the West German Stay Behind Army to her husband, who was a spy for the KGB.
Holy hell, that's dirty.
In 2004, the German author Norbert Jurutsko Published a book about his work with the West German Secret Service and gave details about recruiting partisans for the network.
According to him, the Secret Service built up its branch of Gladio, but discovered after the fall of the German Democratic Republic that it was fully known to the Stasi early on.
Civilians recruited as stay-behind partisans were equipped with clandestine shortwave radio homed in on a fixed frequency.
They had a cache of further equipment for signaling helicopters and submarines, which were to drop special agents who were to stay in the partisans' homes while mounting sabotage operations against the communists.
When Greece joined NATO in 1952, the country's special forces, LOK, the LOKOI-ORENON-KATADROMON, or Mountain Rating Companies, were integrated into the European stay-behind network.
The CIA and LOK would confirm their mutual cooperation in a secret document that was signed by U.S. General Cheskut for the CIA and Konstantinos Adovas, Chief of Staff of the Greek Military,
on March 25, 1955.
In addition to preparing for a Soviet invasion, the CIA instructed LOK to prevent a leftist coup from taking place.
Philip Adji, a former CIA agent, who would later be criticized for having revealed sensitive information, insisted that, quote, paramilitary groups directed by CIA officers operated in the 60s throughout Europe and perhaps no activity of the CIA could be as clearly linked to the possibility of internal subversion.
LOK would go on to be involved in the military coup d'etat on the 21st of April 1967, which took place one month before the scheduled national elections.
And we see that pattern a lot when elections happen.
Something's always going on when a major election is about to take place.
Every time.
Every single time.
So, it's May 3rd, and it's like May 5th or something today.
Can you just imagine?
What's gonna happen from now until November?
Shit's gonna go down.
Anyway, listen to this.
This is crazy.
Under the command of paratrooper Lieutenant Colonel Costas Estelenides, LOK took control of the Greek Defense Ministry while Brigadier General Stylionos Patikos gained control of the communications center of Parliament
and of the Royal Palace and, according to reports, arrested over 10,000 people.
Alright? Crazy.
Phillips Talbot, the U.S. ambassador to Athens, is reported to have disapproved of the military coup, complaining that it represented, quote, a rape of democracy, end quote, to which Jack Maury, the CIA chief of station in Athens,
responded, quote, how can you rape a whore?
End quote.
It's not fucked up.
Isn't that fucked up?
Come on, that's pretty fucked up.
Now, following Giulio Angiotti's revelations in 1990, the Greek defense minister confirmed that a branch of the network known as Operation Sheepskin operated in his country until 1988.
In December of 2005, journalist Cleanthus Grievous published an article in which he accused Sheepskin...
Of the assassination of CIA Station Chief Richard Welch in Athens in 1975, as well as British military attache Stephen Saunders in 2000.
This was sheepishly denied by the U.S. State Department, who responded that it was the Greek terrorist organization 17 November that was responsible for both assassinations.
So how would you want to admit?
Why would they want to admit to that, right?
And this next part by the State Department is hilarious.
It's sort of like when Condoleezza Rice told the American people that they, as in the government, could never have come up with the idea to fly planes in the World Trade Center.
Oh, how could we come up with such an idea?
We're not that smart.
Despite acknowledging that the government was running a drill under the same exact circumstances as what occurred on September 11, 2001.
That is, flying planes directly into the World Trade Center.
So, in the case of Stephen Saunders, the State Department said that the Stay Behind Network couldn't have assassinated him for the simple reason that, as they put it, the Greek government stated it dismantled the Stay Behind Network in 1988.
How could they do it?
They dismantled it.
Speculation that the Netherlands was involved in Gladio arose from the accidental discovery of large arms caches in 1980 and 1983.
In regard to the 1983 incident, people walking in a forest near the village of Rosendal near Arnhem Found themselves a large hidden cache of arms containing dozens of hand grenades, semi-automatic rifles, automatic pistols,
munitions, and explosives.
It was later found that five hand grenades had been taken.
I mean, if you stumbled upon a cache like that, holy shit, what do you do?
Man, I think you just ransacked the hell out of it.
The discovery would move the Dutch government to confirm that the arms were related to NATO.
In 1990, then-Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers told the Dutch Parliament that his office was running a secret organization that had been set up inside the Dutch Defense Ministry in the 1950s,
but denied it was supervised directly by NATO or other foreign bodies.
He went on to inform that successive prime ministers and defense chiefs It was modeled on the nation's World War II experiences of having to evacuate the royal family and transfer government to a government-in-exile,
as well as to provide an underground intelligence network to a government-in-exile in the event of a foreign invasion and used elements of guerrilla warfare.
Former Dutch Defense Minister Henk Vredling confirmed that the group had set up arms caches around the Netherlands for sabotage purposes.
A Dutch investigative television program revealed on September 9, 2007, that another arms cache that had belonged to Gladio had been ransacked in the 1980s.
Some of the stolen weapons, including hand grenades and machine guns, Later turned up when police officials arrested criminals John Miriamet and Sam Klepper in 1991.
In 1978, Norwegian police discovered an arms cache and radio equipment at a mountain cabin and arrested Hans Otto Meyer, a businessman accused of being involved in selling illegal alcohol.
Meyer claimed that the weapons were supplied by Norwegian intelligence.
Defense Minister at that time stated the network was not in any way answerable to NATO and had no CIA connection.
In Portugal, in 1966, the CIA set up Ajinter Press, which, under the direction of Captain Vesgerin Serac, ran a secret stay-behind network and trained its members in covert techniques amounting to terrorism,
including... These people were ready to go.
Operation Gladio empowered Turanism through the founding member of the counter-guerilla Al-Parslan Turks, which was a product of that CIA initiative.
Turanism is a pan-nationalist political movement built around pseudoscientific claims of biological and linguistic connections between various ethnic groups of Eurasia.
As one of the nations that prompted the Truman Doctrine, Turkey is one of the first countries to participate in Operation Gladio.
The counter-guerrilla's existence in Turkey was revealed in 1973 by then-Prime Minister Burlent Essevit.
General Kenan Evren, who became president of Turkey following a successful coup d'etat in 1980, Served as the head of the Counter-Guerrilla, the Turkish branch of Operation Gladio.
Historians and investigators have speculated that Counter-Guerrilla and several subordinate intelligence units such as the Special Forces and Gendarmerie units were involved in numerous acts of state-sponsored terrorism, including the military coup of 1971 and 1980.
Many of the high-ranking plotters of the 1971 and 1980 coup Additionally, the CIA employed people from the far right,
such as pan-Turkish SS member Ruzi Nazar, who was the father of American journalist Sylvia Nazar, to train the Grey Wolves.
The Tsar had deserted the Red Army to join the Nazis during World War II in order to fight on the Eastern Front for the creation of a Turkestan.
After Germany lost the war, some of its spies found haven in the US intelligence community, including the Tsar, who later became the CIA's station chief to Turkey.
See how this whole thing works?
In Austria, the first secret stay-behind network was exposed in 1947 when its far-right leaders, Theodore Suzek and Hugo Rosner were caught, tried, and convicted for their involvement.
The following comes from exploringrealhistory.blogspot.com Quote To prepare for a Soviet invasion and had amassed a cache of sophisticated weapons that included Soviet rocketry.
In court, prosecutors argued that Suzek and Rosner had concocted plans to attack and kill members of the Communist Party of Austria.
Instead of refuting this allegation, the two men presented themselves as defenders of the homeland and maintained that their efforts were funded by the newly created CIA.
The realization that a covert army funded by a foreign government was operating on Austrian soil sent shockwaves throughout the country.
Suszek and Rosner were convicted of CIA.
sedition and sentenced to death in 1949.
However, after serving a short stint in prison, they were pardoned by Austrian Chancellor Theodore Korner without reason or explanation."
Furthermore, the Interior Minister, Franz Ola, set up a new secret army codenamed...
Oh, this is going to be hard.
Oh, boy.
Sport und Gissel gekeicht werden.
I'm going to share this one more time.
Österreich, Jesus.
Österreichischer Wander Sport und Gissel gekeicht werden.
Österreichischer Wander Sport und Gissel gekeicht werden.
Oh my god.
Which roughly translates to...
I totally butchered it, I know.
But whatever.
The secret army was set up...
With the cooperation, FMI6, and the CIA, according to the Interior Minister Franz Ola.
He later explained that they bought cars under the name and installed communication centers in several regions of Austria, which confirmed that special units were trained in the use of weapons and plastic explosives.
He stated that there were a couple thousand of people working on the project and that only highly positioned politicians and some members of the union knew about it.
In 1965, police discovered a stay-behind weapons cache in an old mine which forced the British authorities to hand over a list with a location of 33 other caches in Austria.
It's an interesting number, 33. In 1990, when secret stay-behind units were uncovered all over Europe, The Austrian government said that no secret army had existed in their country.
However, in 1996, the Boston Globe revealed the existence of secret CIA arms caches all over Austria.
Austrian President Thomas Kleschel and Chancellor Franz Wernitzki insisted that they had known nothing of the existence of the secret army and demanded that the U.S. launch a full-scale investigation into the violation of Austria's neutrality.
Which was denied by President Bill Clinton.
Shocking, right?
State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns, who was appointed in August of 2001 by President George Bush as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the Atlantic Treaty Organization, where, as ambassador to NATO,
he headed the State Defense Department United States...
He insisted that, quote, Big surprise there.
In 1944, Sweden worked with Finnish intelligence to set up a stay-behind network of agents within Finland to keep track of post-war activities in that country.
While this network was allegedly never put in place, Finnish codes, sigint, equipment, and documents were brought to Sweden and exploited until the 1980s.
in 1945 Laurie Kampulainan
A Finnish soldier with left-wing sympathies exposed a secret stay-behind network which would be shut down.
It was known as the Weapons Cache Case.
This operation was organized by Finnish general staff officers in 1944 to hide weapons in order to sustain large-scale guerrilla warfare in the event that the Soviet Union tried to occupy Finland following the end of combat on the Finnish-Soviet front of World War II.
Of the 5,000 to 10,000 people who were involved in that case, 1,488 of them were convicted.
Most of them received prison terms of 1 to 4 months.
In 1991, the Swedish media claimed that a secret stay-behind network had existed in Finland, which was a neutral country, supposedly, with an exile base in Stockholm.
Finnish Defense Minister Elisabeth Wren called the revelations, quote, a fairy tale, end quote.
However, in his memoirs, former CIA director William Coby described the setting up of stay-behind networks in the Nordic countries, including Finland, with or without the assistance of local governments to prepare for a Soviet invasion, which completely washed the defense minister's claims.
Several events prior to Spain's 1982 membership with NATO have also been tied to Gladio.
In May 1976, half a year after Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's death, two Carlos militants were shot down by far-right terrorists, among whom were Gladio operative Stefano Dele Cheye and members of the Apostolic Anti-Communist Alliance,
demonstrating... Connections between Gladio and the South American Dirty War of Operation Condor.
This event became known as the Montagher incident, and according to a report by the Italian Executive Committee for Intelligence and Secret Services, Carlo Sizzettini, who himself took part in the 1972 Pateano bombing in Italy alongside Vincenzo Vesighiera, participating in the 1977 massacre of Atochi in Madrid,
killing five people, including several lawyers, Following Angiotti's 1990 revelation, Adolfo Sores, Spain's first democratically elected prime minister after Franco's death,
denied ever having heard of Gladio.
President of the Spanish government in 1981-1982, Calvo Cetelo, stated that Spain had not been informed of Gladio when it entered NATO.
Asked about Gladio's relations to Spain, Calvo said that such a network was not necessary under Franco since, as he put it, quote, The regime itself was Gladio.
End quote.
And it really was.
It really was.
Franco's shit was crazy.
According to General Fausto Fortunato, head of Italian military intelligence and security services known as SISMI, France and the U.S. had supported Spain's involvement with Gladio.
Following Angiotti's revelations, Narciso Serra, Spanish Minister of Defense, opened up an investigation concerning Spain's links.
Former agent of Gladio, Alberto Volo, declared that as an operative, he had received training in Maspalamas in the Cannery Islands in the 1960s and the 1970s.
The publication Al Pais also revealed that the Gladio organization was suspected of having used former NASA installations in Massa Palamas on Gran Canaria in the 1970s.
Gran Canaria?
Whatever. In 1951, CIA agent William Coby, based at the CIA station in Stockholm, supported the training of stay-behind armies in Sweden and Finland and in NATO allies of Norway and Denmark.
In 1953, the police arrested Swedish Nazi Otto Hallberg and discovered the preparations for the Swedish stay-behind network.
Hallberg was set free and charges against him were dropped.
Why, you ask?
Good question, but I think the answer is apparent.
In 1990, General Bengt Gustafsson confirmed that a stay-behind network had existed in the country, but sheepishly lied as he put his hands behind his back, lowered his head, End quote.
End quote.
As he looked over and took a questionable yet consenting handful of the general's ass.
In Switzerland, a few months before Angiades' October 1990 revelations, a secret force called P-26 was discovered after the secret file scandal was uncovered, which revealed that the Swiss federal authorities, as well as the cantonal police forces,
had put in place a system of mass surveillance of the population.
The program was led by Ephraim Catalan, who was known to British intelligence.
In 1990, Colonel Herbert Albuth, a former commander of P-26, declared in a confidential letter to the Defense Department that he was willing to reveal the whole truth.
He was later found in his house, stabbed with his own bayonet with several stabs to the stomach.
On his chest, The medical examiners were left puzzled when they found a set of unique characters, which were written in a felt pen.
But I could not find any information on what those characters were.
I would love to know.
The detailed parliamentary report on the Swiss secret army was presented to the public on November 17, 1990.
According to The Guardian, "P-26 was backed by P-27, a private foreign intelligence agency funded partly by the government and by a special unit of Swiss Army intelligence which had built up files on nearly 8,000 suspect
persons, including leftists, bill stickers, Jehovah's Witnesses, people with abnormal tendencies, and anti-nuclear demonstrators.
On 14th of November, the Swiss government hurriedly dissolved P-26, the head of which...
Boy. Bill stickers.
Jehovah's Witnesses.
People with abnormal tendencies.
Interesting. In 1991, a report by Swiss magistrate Pierre Cornu was released by the Swiss Defense Ministry.
It found that P-26 was without political or legal legitimacy.
And described the group's collaboration with British Secret Services as intense.
He is quoted in that report as saying, quote, "Unknown to the Swiss government, British officials signed agreements with P-26 to provide training in combat, communications, and sabotage.
The latest agreement was signed in 1987.
P-26 cadres participated regularly in training exercises in Britain.
British advisors, possibly from the SAS, visited secret training establishments in Switzerland."
Swiss historian Daniel Ganser, in his 2005 book, NATO's Secret Armies, Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, accused Gladio of trying to influence policies through the means of false flag operations and a strategy of tension.
Ganser alleged that, on various occasions, stay-behind movements became linked to right-wing terrorism, crime, and attempted coup d'etat.
In his book, Ganser states that Gladio units closely cooperated with NATO and the CIA, and that Gladio in Italy was responsible for terrorist attacks against its own civilian population, and there was evidence that proved it.
But everyone, I know we are deeply involved in the story right now, we're just super deep, just balls deep into the story, and I hate having to do this, but this is where we are going to have to stop for today.
And, you know, I love doing this.
I love researching this.
I love presenting it to you because it's great fun.
I know we all just have fun doing this, but I gotta go.
I gotta do things.
We'll pick up next week with part two and finish this bad boy out.
The second part is amazing.
You do not want to miss that.
But, ladies and gentlemen, we came, we had our fun for today, and now it's time to go.
So, good day to you, good evening, good night, and good luck.
Take care of yourselves and take care of one another.
