Why does the FBI Orchestrate Fake Terror Plots?

[Jan Klimkowski]

I do get all that crowd of crazies, but the peculiarity that is my mind, suddenly asked the question whether there was a specific Gladio stay-behind network as we have in Europe. Maybe there was no need as the home grown loonies on the right (dangerous and deadly loonies I agree) were more than enough for the job.

But...

David et al - an important question.

I view and use "Gladio" in a very smilar way to that in which I use "MK-ULTRA".

MK-ULTRA is the visible, limited hangout, tip of decades of deep black research into, loosely, controlling human behaviour. When I say MK-ULTRA, I usually mean to reference all such covert "mind" research.

Similarly, it can be argued that Gladio technically only refers to the Italian portion of the "anti-communist stay behind armies", although it is commonly used to refer to the entire European stay behind operation.

"Gladio was the name given to the Italian branch of a network with the
harmless official name, Allied Co-Ordination Committee, set up with British
help in the 1950's, operated by the secret services and partly financed by
the United States CIA."
(Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian, 16/11/90)

It is arguable that the original intent of "Gladio" in its broadest sense, namely an anti-communist stay behind guerilla force, with access to secret arms caches, designed to fight a partisan war against Red Army invasion, was soon coopted by the intelligence and power elites (eg SMOM and Propaganda Due). In other words, Gladio was transformed into something more valuable to the geopoliticians who sponsored it.

The real halllmarks of Gladio are the Strategy of Tension, and the perpetrating of false flag atrorcities, such as the Bologna railway station bombing, by Gladio cells (in this case, the neo-fascist Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari) with the intention of blaming the atrocity on the left (in this case, falsely attributing it to the Red Brigades).

Such a false flag attack designed to create political instability and fear amongst the citizenry is the real hallmark of Gladio.

Returning to the historical origins of the operation, I suspect that C20th Europe's geography and history, and division of the continent by an Iron Curtain, made the philosophical case for "an anti-communist stay behind guerilla force with access to secret arms caches" easy to argue and justify in intelligence circles. However, no such case could be made in the US - unless the argument was that the Red Army would invade Alaska.....

So, I doubt that there is an American "Gladio" in the sense of a "stay behind anti-communist guerilla" per se.

But I strongly suspect that there are intelligence-created cells of "soldiers", with access to arms and bombs, who operate under the "Gladio" philosophy of using false flag attacks as part of a geopolitical Strategy of Tension.

Of course any such cells would be known to a very few, and be (im)plausibly deniable.