A contemporary view on Gladio

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I know there are several RI members who are enthusiastic students of Gladio.

The Antagonist has published On Terrorism and the State, by Gianfranco Sanguinetti. Written in 1980.

It's far too dense for me, but will be of interest to others.

http://antagonise.blogspot.com/2007/06/ ... ranco.html

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thanks heartily for that one,

i have been reading it for about half an hour and its very good

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The outrages that are accomplished directly by the detached corps and parallel services of the State are not usually claimed by anybody, but are each time, imputed or attributed to some or other convenient "culprit" like Pineilli or Valpreda. [5] Experience has proved that this is the weakest point of such terrorism, and that which determines the extreme fragility of it in the political usage that one wants to make of it. It is starting from the results of the same experience that the strategists of the parallel services of the State seek, from now on, to lend a greater credibility, or at least, a lesser verisimilitude, to their own either by claiming them directly through such-and-such initials of a ghostly group, or even by making them claimed by an existing clandestine group, whose militants apparently are, and sometimes believe themselves to be, extraneous to the designs of the State apparatus.

All secret terrorist groupuscules are organised and directed by a clandestine hierarchy of veritable militants of clandestinity, which reflects perfectly the division of labour and roles proper to this social organisation: above it is decided and below it is carried out. Ideology and military discipline shield the real summit from all risk, and the base from all suspicion. Any secret service can invent "revolutionary" initials for itself and undertake a certain number of outrages, which the press will give good publicity to, and after which, it will be easy to form a small group of naive militants, that it will direct with the utmost ease. But in the case of a small terrorist group spontaneously formed, there is nothing in the world easier for the detached corps of the State than to infiltrate it and, thanks to the means which they dispose of, and the extreme freedom of manoeuvre which they enjoy, to get near the original summit, and to substitute themselves there, either by specific arrests activated at the right moment, or through the assassination of the original leaders, which, as a rule, occurs after an armed conflict with the "forces of order," forewarned about such an operation by their infiltrated elements.

From then on, the parallel services of the State find they have, at their disposal, a perfectly efficient organism to do as they please with, composed of naive or fanatical militants, which asks for nothing other than to be directed. The original little terrorist group, born of the mirages of its militants about the possibilities of realising an effective strategic offensive, changes strategists and becomes nothing other than a defensive appendage of the State, which manoeuvres it with the utmost agility and ease, according to its own necessities of the moment, or what it believes to be its own necessities.

[Gouda]

Thanks for sharing this.

A note on Sanguinetti:

The Real Report on the Last Chance to Save Capitalism in Italy appeared under the pseudonym "Censor" when a former member of the Situationist International, Gianfranco Sanguinetti, mailed his brilliant fake to 520 elite industrialists, academics, journalists, and politicians in 1975. Posing as a cultured Italian aristocrat and with a sweeping knowledge of history, classical literature, politics and military strategy, "Censor" sounded like a conservative from another era, an heir to Dante and Machiavelli, counseling his executive peers in response to autonomous workers' strikes and terrorist actions that were sweeping the country. Having been deported from France in 1971, and freshly released from jail on false weapons charges, Sanguinetti succeeded in causing a scandal while laying bare the secret machinations of the state and covert manipulation of terrorist groups by the intelligence services.

http://www.flatlandbooks.com/rereport.html


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As an aside, from the same web-page, an Excerpt from the Appendix of the Sanguinetti's book above:

From the Egg to the Apples: The Combined Chronologies of the Strategy of Tension in Italy and of the Italian Section of the Situationist International by Len Bracken

1961 Right-wing Italian journalist, Ordine Nuovo founder and future secretary of MSI, Pino Rauti gives a lecture at the US Marine College in Annapolis on "Techniques and Possibilities of a Coup d'Etat in Europe."

1963 Top secret Operation Gladio begins...

and today:

2007 Think Tank floats Gladio-like Black Op Scenarios for Turkey

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'SPECIAL FORCES' IN BOSTON

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Understanding Self-Inflicted Terror

Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst.org

Witness the following from the period of the Cold War, where synthetic terror was used in Western Europe in order to convince the increasingly skeptical Western European public that the Communist threat was real – revealed ex post facto in the BBC documentary in 1992 on NATO’s Operation Gladio. Part-3 of the Gladio documentary has the following lovely statement quoted from the US Army’s Top Secret Field Manual:

“Top Secret: There may be times when host country governments show passivity or indecision in the face of Communist subversion … US Army Intelligence must have the means of launching special operations which will convince host country governments and public opinion of the reality of the insurgent danger … US Army Intelligence should seek to penetrate the insurgency by means of agents of special assignments, with the task of forming special action groups among the most radical elements of the insurgency.”

Replacing “Communist subversion” in the text above with “Islamofascist terror” or “domestic-terrorists’ terror” makes what is being stated in this BBC documentary ominous. It begs the commonsensical question: Is wanton acts of terrorism inflicted upon innocent civilians still a Machiavellian part of statecraft today?

Zbigniew Brzezinski observed the following in his 1996 book The Grand Chessboard:

“It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America’s power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public’s sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is defense spending), and the human sacrifice (casualties even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.”

Democracy? More form with no substance. It's no wonder we are drowning in our own puke.

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'SPECIAL FORCES' IN BOSTON

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