18-07-2013, 09:30 AM
One of the more fascinating aspects, I think anyway, was the special relationship between former General Walter Bedell Smith (Eisenhower's chief of staff for the D Day landings) and former Nazi SS and I G Farben spy, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands.
I find this relationship interesting mostly because it reflects just how cosy "deep" money war and politics works. In the case of Bedell Smith and Prince Bernhard, it was their close post WWII business association via the company Bernhard Ltd, which apparently dealt in stolen art, particularly plundered Dutch artworks, that were shipped between war torn Europe and the USA.
For me, the audacious, but famously failed, Operation Market Garden, which saw allied Airborne attempt to capture several bridges in the Netherlands - culminating in the taking and holding of the bridge at Arnhem - across which British armour would flow directly into nazi Germany, thus bringing the war to a close by Christmas 1944, is of considerable interest because it has been my working hypothesis that betrayal was involved. And the likely candidates included Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who was distrusted by the British because of his nazi background, and Walter Bedell Smith, who would've had access to the Market Garden plans.
I have set out my arguments for the foregoing hypothesis in an essay titled "Princes of Plunder - the Shape of Treachery and the Bridge at Arnhem" ---- where the word "Shape" could easily be capitlized and used in the Gladio sense -- "Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe where the logo of that entity today still features two upright short thrusting swords beloved of Roman legionnaires, namely the Gladius (i.e. "Gladio).
And, of course, Bedell Smith was appointed the 4th DCI of the CIA in 1950 and held that post until 1953 and was instrumental in helping to found the Bilderberg Group, the first chairman of whom was none other than Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. The first meeting of Bilderberg is officially recorded as being held in May 1954 (almost the 10th anniversary of Operation Market Garden), at the Hotel de Bilderberg located at Oosterbeck, Holland - no more than 5 kilometres distant from, well, that pesky bridge at Arnhem.
I find this relationship interesting mostly because it reflects just how cosy "deep" money war and politics works. In the case of Bedell Smith and Prince Bernhard, it was their close post WWII business association via the company Bernhard Ltd, which apparently dealt in stolen art, particularly plundered Dutch artworks, that were shipped between war torn Europe and the USA.
For me, the audacious, but famously failed, Operation Market Garden, which saw allied Airborne attempt to capture several bridges in the Netherlands - culminating in the taking and holding of the bridge at Arnhem - across which British armour would flow directly into nazi Germany, thus bringing the war to a close by Christmas 1944, is of considerable interest because it has been my working hypothesis that betrayal was involved. And the likely candidates included Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who was distrusted by the British because of his nazi background, and Walter Bedell Smith, who would've had access to the Market Garden plans.
I have set out my arguments for the foregoing hypothesis in an essay titled "Princes of Plunder - the Shape of Treachery and the Bridge at Arnhem" ---- where the word "Shape" could easily be capitlized and used in the Gladio sense -- "Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe where the logo of that entity today still features two upright short thrusting swords beloved of Roman legionnaires, namely the Gladius (i.e. "Gladio).
And, of course, Bedell Smith was appointed the 4th DCI of the CIA in 1950 and held that post until 1953 and was instrumental in helping to found the Bilderberg Group, the first chairman of whom was none other than Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. The first meeting of Bilderberg is officially recorded as being held in May 1954 (almost the 10th anniversary of Operation Market Garden), at the Hotel de Bilderberg located at Oosterbeck, Holland - no more than 5 kilometres distant from, well, that pesky bridge at Arnhem.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14