08-04-2019, 12:20 PM
James Lateer Wrote:There seems to be a distinct dividing line between covert operations before 1963 and after 1963.
The murder of Aldo Moro in Italy, Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and that of Salvador Allende, leader of Chile are the biggest stories, but they did not involve the clear communist-Western or fascist-communist-democracy dialectics that prevailed in the 1940's to the mid 1960's.
Most of the Gladio material focuses on blurry information. After the murder of JFK and the downfall of Khrushchev, none of the semi-sensational events that followed could live up to the drama of the founding of the CIA, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the personalities of Khrushchev, FDR, Churchill, Stalin etc etc.
I think that it's because Communism became only partially a pariah, the old Nazis like Bormann, Eichmann and company died off and only the Argentinian Generals in Argentina really carried on the true historical fascist tradition of Hitler, Mussolini and friends. It's no longer "Red China" like it used to be. Now Communist China and Communist Vietnam are considered to be wonderful--just as American as apple pie.
Maybe sometime soon, we will see again the COPS AND ROBBERS, or COWBOYS AND INDIANS drama revive in international relations. But for now, things like Operation Gladio in Italy and the Bader-Meinhof Gang in Germany seem like repetitous James Bond sequels.
James Lateer
The forerunner of Gladio was the British operation in post-WW1 Germany, when a large & systematic campaign of assassination was waged to eradicate the center & center-Left, creating the desired polarisation from which sprang the carefully nurtured Nazi movement.
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"
Joseph Fouche
Joseph Fouche