Operation Gladio

[Carsten Wiethoff]

The 1980 Oktoberfest bomb blast

Revelations of a witness in the investigation of the Oktoberfest bomb blast of 1980 in Munich lead to the conclusion that the explosives might have come from the German Neo-Nazi Heinz Lembke.[citation needed] In 1981, German police by chance found an arms cache in the L�neburg Heath, which led to the arrest of Lembke and the discovery of other arms caches in Lower Saxony. A few days later, Lembke hanged himself in prison. Lembke had been questioned in Oktoberfest investigation, but the public prosecutors found no evidence that he supplied the explosives for the bombing.[53]
Lembkes arms caches were supposed to be connected to Gladio by a number of researchers and journalists.[7]

See http://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/inha...48cad.html in German

The historian Andreas Kramer claims that his father Johannes Karl Kramer, who worked for the German BND, planned the 1980 bombing of the Oktoberfest, killing 13 and wounding more than 200. He also built the bomb, three bombs to be exact, together with Gundolf Köhler, the official Patsy and other BND officers. Kramer also puts this in the Gladio context and talks about at least 50 arms caches that were handled by his father.
All this was first made public in the course of the Luxemburg trial against two elite policemen, who might be responsible for about 20 bombings in the 80s (Bommeleeër attacks).

A German TV report regarding the Luxemburg trials and Gladio (in German): http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/index.php?d...&obj=36269

A dossier about the Bommeleeër trial (in German): http://www.wort.lu/de/view/das-bommeleee...37043e8be8