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Re: Operation Gladio

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If you are wondering how it got so far off the rails, then look no further than the fact that they hired, trained, and equipped former Nazi SS officers. Not Wehrmacht grunts. Nor enlisted SS grunts. But SS officers. Less than three years after the Nuremberg trials. The trials where a sitting Supreme Court justice took time off to act as Chief Prosecutor on behalf of the US to condemn their bosses to death. They did it despite plenty of contemporaneous objections to the contrary.

> Some of the newly released documents show that between 1949 and 1955, the CIA organized "stay-behind" networks of German agents to provide intelligence from behind enemy lines, should the Soviet Union invade western Germany.

> One network included at least two former Nazi SS members -- Staff Sgt. Heinrich Hoffman and Lt. Col. Hans Rues -- and one was run by Lt. Col. Walter Kopp, a former German army officer referred to by the CIA as an "unreconstructed Nazi." The network was disbanded in 1953 amid political concerns that some members' neo-Nazi sympathies would be exposed in the West German press.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/0...

The CIA has an uncanny talent for arming and training future and former enemies of the US and most of the world.

Re: Operation Gladio

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Ah yes. Bringing democracy democracy, but also arming terrorists just in case people vote incorrectly. How not to be grateful for this?

Re: Operation Gladio

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daowxbaeurw Oktoberfest Bombing München 1980, Operation Gladio from time to time in german media: the police stopped investigating Neonazi involvement.

Not sure if Daniele Ganser the best source for this…

Re: Operation Gladio

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Little domino tile: following the end of WWII, the US installs terrorist cells in Europe in fear of a communist takeover

Big domino tile: Silvio Berlusconi becomes prime minister of Italy in 1994

Re: Operation Gladio

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Little domino tile: following the end of WWII, the US installs terrorist cells in Europe in fear of a communist takeover Big domino tile: Silvio Berlusconi becomes prime minister of Italy in 1994

Silvio is also tied to the P2 lodge, right?

Re: Operation Gladio

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post #4

Ah yes. Bringing democracy democracy, but also arming terrorists just in case people vote incorrectly. How not to be grateful for this?

There are many ways to be ungrateful, the best ones end with drone strikes in your vicinity /s
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