Michael Piper and Final Judgment

[Jan Klimkowski]

Phil - an insightful and typically concise post.

Looking at the various DPF links you provide as background for Gladio, it is seen it was a pre-NATO anti-Communist secret army used to instill a strategy of tension which reads like a Dulles-era manual updated to 911 and psycho twenty-somethings with two automatics and nothing to lose.

Attempting to discern the fundamental nature of Gladio is crucial.

I increasingly see the secret army to rise against Communist invasion as the founding myth, and perhaps the justification used to justify Gladio to its grunts and their handlers.

However, in the absence of any Communist invasion, the Gladio cells increasingly went operational.

As there was no genuine Communist (subversive) threat, an Enemy had to be created.

And thus the strategia della tensione, the Strategy of Tension was conjured.

The genie was out of the bottle, never to return.