Mae Brussell: Fritz Kraemer and Gladio

[Jan Klimkowski]

Investor and British Army vet Richard Nunneley, another Kraemer admirer, oozes: "Fritz Kraemer had been a moral compass and a rock of wisdom in the Pentagon from the early 1950s until his retirement in 1978, as the true Dr. Strangelove' with a monocle, a walking stick in his hand and two PhDs as an intellectual background. He was Kissinger's Kissinger' from 1944 until the mid 1970s, when he cut the relationship out of frustration.

Slight problem with this hagiography of Fritz Kraemer: Dr Strangelove had lost his moral compass.

Pulitzer Prize-winning literatum Norman Mailer makes an appearance at the WSN website to compliment Kraemer. Mailer touts Kraemer as a "genius who has influenced the thinking and planning of the Pentagon for several decades, probably more than anyone before him." No doubt, but for WSN promotion purposes the trademark Mailer backhand slap in the next sentence should be redacted: "Only history will tell what the consequences of his ominous presencehave been."

Perhaps that obliteration of the moral compass is what all these tools, including the pugilistic tool Mailer, really meant....