Why does the FBI Orchestrate Fake Terror Plots?

[Jan Klimkowski]

David - the SHAPE symbolism is certainly intriguing.

See also the claim that NATO REQUIRED any country joining the organization to have set up the mechanisms for "clandestine citizen cadres" or, perhaps more accurately, Gladio stay behind cells with access to arms.

THE SECRET NATO COVER

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) provided international cover for Washington's postwar operations in Italy. A secret clause in the initial NATO agreement in 1949 required that before a nation could join, it must have already established a national security authority to fight communism through clandestine citizen cadres. This ``Stay Behind'' clause grew out of a secret committee set up at U.S. insistence in the Atlantic Pact, the forerunner of NATO. Each NATO member was also required to send delegates to semiannual meetings on the subject. 4

U.S. authority for such moves flowed in a steady stream of presidential directives transmitted through the National Security Council (NSC). In December 1950, the council gave the armed forces carte blanche to use ``appropriate'' military force even if the communists merely ``gain participation'' in government by legal means or ``threaten to achieve control...or the government ceases to evidence a determination to oppose communist internal or external threats.'' 5

The piece is from a February 1996 Covert Action article. Unfortunately, the footnotes are missing.

http://www.mega.nu/ampp/gladio.html