Antony C Black — Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance … Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia [Book Review]

What your "deep state" has been up to. No good.

Can Paul L. Williams be believed? On one hand, he has academic credentials. On the other hand, he has been criticized as a conspiracy theorist for alarmist writings on the threat of Islamic terrorism in the US. His book is available for download at Internet Archive here. He provides documentation for his claims, but I have not checked out the sources.

Off Guardian
Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance …… Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia (2015)Overview of Paul L Williams” book
Antony C Black

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Peter Radford reviews Walter Scheidel’s “The Great Leveler”, "which gives us a very long period perspective on inequality."

This is a good article on the limitations that academic economics imposes on itself that limit its scope to idealizations about the operation of markets based on stylized facts rather than investigating the actual facts, which extend beyond this scope and are determinative of outcomes that cannot be understood without investigation of the influence of politics and power. Perhaps I am influence by confirmation bias, since I have saying this for a long time here at MNE and it bears me out.

The Radford Free Press
Power: Take Two
Peter Radford

John Helmer on European Court "justice"

Melchior Wathelet (lead image, left), the Advocate-General of the European Court in Luxembourg, publicly recommended on May 31 that the court should dismiss a challenge to the legality of European Union sanctions by the Russian state oil company Rosneft. Wathelet has a history of secret operations against Moscow. That history ought to have disqualified Wathelet from participating in the Rosneft case, lawyers at the court say.

“He should have done so voluntarily,” one of the lawyers adds. “Instead, Wathelet, along with the Belgian President of the Court, Koen Lenaerts, have kept the past secret, allowing a serious conflict of interest to influence the outcome of the case.”

As the minister of justice in his native Belgium, Wathelet supervised the Belgian state security service, and officially participated himself over several years in NATO spying, military operations and propaganda schemes against Russia and the Soviet Union.

Details of Wathelet’s involvement in NATO’s Operation Gladio were not known to Rosneft when Wathelet was assigned to the case. Rosneft’s Anglo-American law firm did not investigate Wathelet’s bacckgournd. Also, the law firm, Hage Joseph Aaronson, has kept from Rosneft the knowledge that one of their own lawyers was a long-serving officer in the US Defence Intelligence Agency.

Lawyers engaged in European Court cases in Luxembourg say they are astonished by the conflict of interest. “This case is hugely important,” said one source engaged in a parallel sanctions proceeding. “If Rosneft were to win, the legality of sanctions would collapse”. A London lawyer adds he is surprised that Rosneft management and its lawyers in Luxembourg failed to challenge Wathelet’s participation in the case.

Wathelet is not denying the information about his past involvement in NATO operations. He won’t explain why he and the presiding judge, Court President Koen Lenaerts, acted together to arrange his assessment of the Rosneft legal papers.…

It gets worse:

Wathelet was forced out of the Belgian government in 1995. His exit followed charges of interference from the justice ministry in the faulty prosecution and early release from prison of members of a pedophile ring; they has been convicted of pandering to the sexual tastes of high Belgian officials. Wathelet was also accused of involvement in the ring himself, but no allegations came to court, and Wathelet has not been charged with wrongdoing. The challenge by the European parliament to his fitness as a European Court judge failed in 1997; read more.

Before the pedophile scandal led to Wathelet’s outing from Belgium and his promotion to the bench in Luxembourg, his involvement in Operation Gladio also came under official scrutiny by the Belgian senate in 1991. The Belgian investigation was triggered by disclosures in France and Italy, indicating that the US and British secret services had set up a NATO operation for recruiting, arming, training and operating groups of men in the NATO member states. Their mission to start with, according to the Belgium senate record, was to “stay behind” after invasion, and prepare resistance to occupation by enemy forces. Although Belgium has twice been occupied by German troops, and then by the British and American armies, the only enemy in the Gladio plan was to come from Moscow.

In practice, Gladio agents and their commanders were fanatical ideologues, German collaborators, haters of both Russia and communism, who organized violence against domestic left-wing organizations, as well as terrorist attacks against the general population. The Brabant killings in Belgium, which occurred between 1983 and 1985, have never been solved, but some investigations have believed Gladio operatives were involved.For details, click.…

Helmer's post are generally longish and detailed, as this one is. Reading through it, one would conclude that the European enterprise is hopelessly compromised and "fixed." It should be completely dismantled. If internationalists wish to pursue it, they should start afresh, disqualifying all present participants and thoroughly vetting all new participants in an atmosphere of complete transparency to regain credibility.

Dances with Bears
Melchior Wathelet, The Gladio – Advocate-General Of European Court In Rosneft Sanctions Case Worked With Secret Nato Spy And Terror Ring Against Russia; Rosneft Lawyers In Sanctions Case Include Us SpyJohn Helmer

NATO’s Secret Armies. Operation GLADIO and the Strategy of Tension — Julian Charles interviews Daniele Ganser

Hmm.

Global Research
NATO’s Secret Armies. Operation GLADIO and the Strategy of Tension
Julian Charles of The Mind Renewed interviews and the University of Basel, and founder and Director of the Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research

See also

Journal of 9/11 Studies, Volume 39, May 2014
The “Strategy of Tension” in the Cold War Period
Daniele Ganser

Operation Gladio

Operation Bloodstone

Operation Paperclip

Operation Northwoods

Operation Mongoose

Don Quijones — Forbidden History: Operation Gladio

The following BBC documentary may not be of the best visual quality, but it is nonetheless vital (and riveting) viewing for anyone seeking to understand how Europe was clandestinely “rebuilt” from the ashes of the Second World War in preparation for the Cold War. It represents a small but dense chunk of Europe’s forbidden history.

The film’s findings are particularly pertinent in light of last night’s horrific events in Paris. It documents the brutal lengths to which the allied powers (the U.S., UK and NATO) would go in order to maintain their grip on the power structures of the newly liberated old continent.

The film exhaustively documents how the secret services of the allied victors, led by the OSS (the forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency), deployed fascist and other far-right groups that had collaborated with Hitler (what they termed “stay-behinds”) to build secret networks of spies and agents to fight against communist or other left-wing movements in Cold-War Europe.

As Vincenzo Vinciguerra, a former member of the neo-fascist group “Ordine Nuevo”, says in the film’s introduction, “Gladio, as it is defined nowadays, forms part of what I have always referred to as ‘parallel structures’. In other words, an invisible army that is not poised for battle against a hypothetical invader but rather one meant to be used internally against what the military have always called the ‘Fifth Column of the USSR.'”….

Raging Bull-Shit
Forbidden History: Operation Gladio
Don Quijones

Don Quijones — Forbidden History: Operation Gladio

The film exhaustively documents how the secret services of the allied victors, led by the OSS (the forerunner to the Central Intelligence Agency), deployed fascist and other far-right groups that had collaborated with Hitler (what they termed “stay-behinds”) to build secret networks of spies and agents to fight against communist or other left-wing movements in Cold-War Europe.…

See also Operation Paperclip.

The deep state began in the Truman administration with the creation of clandestine services with enormous power and scant accountability that employed questionable methods and combined intelligence gathering with clandestine operations.

Raging Bull-shit
Forbidden History: Operation Gladio
Don Quijones