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Gladio Northwoods connection (4 posts)

  1. christs4sale
    Administrator

    I am currently reading Peter Dale Scott's new book, "The Road to 9/11," and I am enjoying it immensely. It gives an excellent overview of ruling-class warfare of the last 40-50 years. Institutions such as the American Security Counsel and the Committee on Present Danger are mentioned and divisions between figures such as Brzezinski and Carter's Secretary of State Cyrus Vance are elaborated on. I was surprised to read that James Angleton literally believed Henry Kissinger to be a Soviet spy.

    Scott discusses the Office of Policy Coordination, the CIA's hidden operations section in its early years, and one of its first initiatives, the creation of and support of "stay-behind" networks in Europe, including Gladio in Italy. One of its authors was Guido Giannettini:

    Guido Giannettini, on of the Italian authors of this strategy of tension (and of the Piazza Fontana bombing eight years later), came to America in 1961 to lecture at the Naval War College on "Techniques and Possibilities of a Coup d'Etat in Europe." In March 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff prepared their own documents developing on Giannettini's strategy. This was Operation Northwoods, which many books have cited as a "precedent" for "US complicity in the attack of 9/11."

    Unfortunately, the source of this information is an Italian language book called Piazza Fontana by Fabrizio Calvi and Frederic Laurent.

    Posted 16 years ago #
  2. NicholasLevis
    Member

    Gladio was set up along with NATO and technically under it, although the coordinating office was CIA and independent of NATO structures, and although each of the stay-behind networks took on its own life within its own country (thus the Italian one orchestrated a long series of terror attacks and the German one didn't). This is gone into in the excellent 3-part Gladio documentary, BBC 1992. Find it, watch it. (I have it on drive.)

    Here's a possible connection: JCS Chairman Lemnitzer, who presented Northwoods with his signature to McNamara, as you say apparently got the idea from Gianettini of Gladio. He's booted off the JCS but is sent to Europe instead to become head of NATO from Jan 1963 to 1969 - just as the Italian Gladio attacks ramp up in the late 1960s.

    An official bio: http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/lemnitz.htm

    Sourcewatch: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lyman_L... "Prior to the Kennedy assassination, Lemnitzer had been implicated in an investigation into extreme right-wing and anti-communist/pro-Israel hardliner connections in the Defense Department which had already forced the resignation of several Pentagon officials, including one who'd been caught handing out John Birch Society literature while on assignment overseas. The conclusions called for further extensive investigation of Lemnitzer to determine just how far his connections ran, but these were never carried out. This has led some to suspect a DoD, rather than CIA, involvement in the death of JFK. Ironically (or not), in 1975 the retired General Lemnitzer was appointed by Gerald R. Ford to the Commission on CIA Activities within the United States."

    http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/cg&csa/Lemnit... was commanding general of United States Forces, Europe, 1962–1969; was Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, 1963–1969; retired from active service, July 1969; was a member of a panel that investigated domestic activities of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1975; died in Washington, D.C., on 12 November 1988.

    Various sources relate his resentment of CIA encroachment on Pentagon commando realm; it's easy to imagine such an activist-type general encroaching back on Gladio territory during his European stint.

    Again: Gladio command separate from NATO, but this becomes interesting given Scott's discovery that Lemnitzer already taking ideas from Gladio before going to head NATO.

    Posted 16 years ago #
  3. NicholasLevis
    Member

    More Lemnitzer: He commanded the Mediterranean theater in WW2 and oversaw the surrenders of Sicily and Italy. Which is to say he was putting mafia figures in charge of the south and rounding up the people who would become Gladio, "present at the creation." Also reputed ratline involvement.

    Later he's a full-blown Bircher who figures JFK is a commie. So it's a consistent picture, here's the same guy setting up the new Italian order at the end of WW2 and later signing off on Northwoods.

    Posted 16 years ago #
  4. NicholasLevis
    Member

    His NYT obituary/hagiography has lots of interesting stuff - turns out he had stints as a high-level commando/spy on secret missions negotiating surrenders of the Italian government and then the Nazi forces in Italy.

    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940...

    Describes him as a German Lutheran, not (as one predictably finds on certain sites) Jewish.

    Posted 16 years ago #

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