Operation Gladio

[Peter Lemkin]

Nice to hear there is more documentation now, but this is not news to me. Gehlen Org., indeed....and their strange bedfellows called the C.I.A.....then newborn from the OSS and some other 'threads'. Gladio goes back before there was a program named Gladio, just as fascism goes back in history way, way before Mussolini coined the term. In its current form, the 'Gladio' concept was the still-born child of one Otto Skorzeny...but he, in turn, had learned it from others before him. Sadly, it is with us still....I believe in 9-11-01 and many subsequent events....all under a very big umbrella I would that I'd put the name 'Gladio' on the folder for.....indeed, I do believe I have that folder around here....somewhere.....::

Carl Oglesby was heavily researching both Gehlen and Skorzeny in the 80's. He tried for years via Freedom of Information to obtain the Gehlen files. In the mid 90's he was finally successful and the boxes half filled a good sized bedroom. The rest of the room was filled with boxes of FBI files on Carl. For anyone interested all the Gehlen (and related files of Carl O) were donated by Carl to U Mass Amherst. (MA).

Dawn

How much luck did he have on Skorzeny? I'm interested in him now.....he has his connections to Western Intelligence and Banksters all along.....

Found the finding aid for his collection... http://scua.library.umass.edu/ead/mums514.html

Peter:THANK YOU for this. As I recall he pretty much reached a dead end on Skorzeny, unless he had better luck after I moved to Austin (1990) and just never learned about it.

I see LOTS on Gehlen [also of interest, but I think few mysteries left about him now], but I see little [nothing actually at a quick glance] on Skorzeny....not too surprising. He was Hitlers 'James Bond' and then became a 'James Bond' for the BND and CIA and old-Nazis after the War.....things on him are closely held secrets still. His escape from prison after the War, alone, is right out of 'Bond'...and he married the daughter of the biggest Nazi financier....and he was involved in the secret movements of Nazi Gold....and on and on and on..... That he was never convicted or captured tells all....he lived quite openly in Spain and Portugal after the War and even sometimes would visit other parts of Europe. No one touched him. He kept in contact with all the old Nazis, headed up their network organization and knew where they all were, keeping them safe and well supplied with money and protection. He, in turn, was amazingly protected by 'Western' intelligence and their bankster bosses. A LOT of the secrets surrounding Skorzeny are either not known, or are known in a certain circle, but can't be proven to the naive world, as we don't have documents.\
That is a huge collection he left - almost 70 linear feet of papers!

Hear you on the many friends dying.......we're loosing the 60's generation leaders, thinkers, researchers, and just those who lived it.