30-09-2014, 08:58 AM
It does sou nd lime he's attempting to contort the Gladio story into a fable about it being an organised crime thing, doesn't it.
The reality is, of course, is that the "Stay Behind" units were officially unofficial the whole way. I believe they grew out of the British Resistance Organization an underground resistance manned by auxiliary units, with the purpose of harassing the nazis had they invaded and taken over the UK.
Some years ago I visited the BRO museum at the former WWII USAF base at RAF Parham in Suffolk. It was on a Saturday and it was closed. But the big guy who ran the whole thing was present and asked one of his underlings to give me a conducted tour, which was informative. The second gentleman told me how he had been a young man in WWII and was part of one of these auxiliary units. Each member was given a sealed envelope and told that they must never open it unless the nation was invaded - in which case they must carry out the orders contained therein without hesitation. Curious, he did open his envelope. His instructions were to assassinate the chief police officer in his area. From what he said he would've done it, but with the usual reservations. Btw, the big honcho was a former senior officer in MI5, I was told.
Across the country there were thousands of the secret underground bunkers the six man team were to operate from. I saw a map of each one of them and they were literally everywhere. These remained secret and in force until after the end of the cold war - and became a historical museum only in 1997. The Auxilliary Force was run in WWII by Brigadier Colin Gubbins. He was Churchill's man who was responsible for all sorts of mayhem and murder, and became the head of the SOE. What is not said in his Wiki page, is that Gubbins continued to run the underground "stay behind" units in the cold war period, on behalf of MI6 (so no longer domestic action but overseas), as can be read in Ganser Daniele's book NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe (Gubbins extract HERE)
But Gubbins career didn't end there. He was an attendee (invited by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands) at the very first Bilderberg Conference in Oostebeek, the Netherlands held in 1954. Odd that. In that first meeting, he was in the company of some very, very powerful men who went on to shape the future of NATO and the cold war.
Interestingly, the Bilderberg Hotel at Oosterbeek is just a couple of miles away from the bridge at Arnhem, where one of the most daring battles of WWII took place - but failed... the famous "A Bridge Too Far". It has been my contention for many years that the failure of this operation was not due to bad planning or poor effort (although both, as usual were present as they are in all such operations), but the failure of the operation was down to planned betrayal. By that point in the war, it was well-known - even inside the Third Reich - that Germany was finished anyway. The important thing was to ensure the survival of Germany as a future bulwark against the Soviet Union in the pre-planned cold war. And the Allie were content to go along with that plan of continuation.
The reality is, of course, is that the "Stay Behind" units were officially unofficial the whole way. I believe they grew out of the British Resistance Organization an underground resistance manned by auxiliary units, with the purpose of harassing the nazis had they invaded and taken over the UK.
Some years ago I visited the BRO museum at the former WWII USAF base at RAF Parham in Suffolk. It was on a Saturday and it was closed. But the big guy who ran the whole thing was present and asked one of his underlings to give me a conducted tour, which was informative. The second gentleman told me how he had been a young man in WWII and was part of one of these auxiliary units. Each member was given a sealed envelope and told that they must never open it unless the nation was invaded - in which case they must carry out the orders contained therein without hesitation. Curious, he did open his envelope. His instructions were to assassinate the chief police officer in his area. From what he said he would've done it, but with the usual reservations. Btw, the big honcho was a former senior officer in MI5, I was told.
Across the country there were thousands of the secret underground bunkers the six man team were to operate from. I saw a map of each one of them and they were literally everywhere. These remained secret and in force until after the end of the cold war - and became a historical museum only in 1997. The Auxilliary Force was run in WWII by Brigadier Colin Gubbins. He was Churchill's man who was responsible for all sorts of mayhem and murder, and became the head of the SOE. What is not said in his Wiki page, is that Gubbins continued to run the underground "stay behind" units in the cold war period, on behalf of MI6 (so no longer domestic action but overseas), as can be read in Ganser Daniele's book NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe (Gubbins extract HERE)
But Gubbins career didn't end there. He was an attendee (invited by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands) at the very first Bilderberg Conference in Oostebeek, the Netherlands held in 1954. Odd that. In that first meeting, he was in the company of some very, very powerful men who went on to shape the future of NATO and the cold war.
Interestingly, the Bilderberg Hotel at Oosterbeek is just a couple of miles away from the bridge at Arnhem, where one of the most daring battles of WWII took place - but failed... the famous "A Bridge Too Far". It has been my contention for many years that the failure of this operation was not due to bad planning or poor effort (although both, as usual were present as they are in all such operations), but the failure of the operation was down to planned betrayal. By that point in the war, it was well-known - even inside the Third Reich - that Germany was finished anyway. The important thing was to ensure the survival of Germany as a future bulwark against the Soviet Union in the pre-planned cold war. And the Allie were content to go along with that plan of continuation.
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