The Pentagon's 'NATO Option'

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http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0210-22.htm

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It was called “the strategy of tension” and it was carried out by members of secret stay-behind armies organized by NATO and funded by the CIA in Italy, Portugal, Germany, Spain, and other European countries. The strategy apparently involved supplying right-wing terrorists with explosives to carry out terrorist acts which were then blamed on left-wing groups to keep them out of power.

Only three countries, Italy, Belgium, and Switzerland, have had a parliamentary investigation into NATO’s role and a public report. The US and UK, the two nations most centrally involved, are refusing to disclose details, so crucial pieces of the story are missing. Still, Ganser’s book offers some disturbing insights into a hidden aspect of the Cold War.

It all began during WWII when British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, ordered a secret army to be created to fight communism. Allen Dulles, the first chief of the CIA, worked out the original plan, and British MI6 and special forces teamed up with the CIA to train “stay- behind armies” in Western Europe to counter a possible Soviet invasion. It was all very James Bond - only grim - with forged passports, dead letter boxes, and parachute jumps over the channel, according to some of the trainees.

It turns out that what Washington meant by counter-terrorism, might often have been, well, terrorism.

Here’s the money part from one of the field manuals (FM 30-31B):

"...when the revolutionaries temporarily renounce the use of force ….US army intelligence must have the means of launching special operations which will convince Host Country Governments and public opinion of the reality of the insurgent danger…”

That’s to say, if there wasn’t any terrorism to speak of, the secret armies were prepared to get some going.

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[ConcernedCanuk]

1. BINGO! - ergo - they NEEDED 9/11

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and now, they need something more - -

Brace urself America

Terror looms from within,

And the voters just gave it's approval to it's Leader

[neweurope]

2. I had not known this - but I had suspected it - and what's more:

A train station in Madrid was blown up lately. Allegedly by "Muslim terrorists" like EVERYTHING right now is being done by "Muslim terrorists". The FIRST thing that came into my mind was: That was the CIA. Because the US wanted the EU to change their laws (to better control the population - passports with biometric data and much more, PATRIOT light so to speak). There was big pressure on the European countries at the time. Then Madrid "happened" - and the laws were changed just like the US had demanded.

If the CIA has been doing this under other US governments - and in my mind there is no question they did - then do you believe under BUSH and CHENEY they wouldn't be doing it?

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[teryang]

3. P2SOG

Early in the first chimp administration, Herr Rumsfeldt openly discussed his secret "anti-terrorism" operational group, the pre-emptive plans special operations group. The very name of the group alludes to the CIA strategy typified by the P2 Lodge bombing group of fascist fanatics in post war Italy.

This also followed the model of George H.W. Bush's SOG in the white house basement during the Reagan administration. They obtained free reign to run foreign policy after John Hinckley Jr. attempted the Bush faction assassination attempt on Reagan. The drugs for guns for terror campaigns supervised by the Iran Contra scandal regulars, Negroponte, Reich, Abrams, Poindexter et al, are now back in the saddle.

I think that the Spanish train bombings were of the variety laid out in this article.

[neweurope]

4. Hi teryang - thanks for the background. And thanks for sharing

my opinion ;) - whenever I mentioned this to a friend they looked at my like I were crazy. But I don't feel crazy.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[not systems]

5. hey hey the gangs all here n/t