Operation Gladio - A Primer
What is Operation Gladio?
What if someone said that Jim Jones of Jonestown fame, the Unification Church Moonies, the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, Hitler’s trusted SS officer Otto Skorzeny, the assassination of JFK and Lumumba all have something in common? And that the movement of NATO’s headquarters from Paris to Belgium was related to that something?
That something is generically called Operation Gladio.
In a series of articles, I will layout the proof.
But first, it’s necessary to discuss the preceding history that set the operation in motion, as well as the terminology to better understand the nature of the operation and exactly how it occurred.
World history is full of examples of imperialism, or as some refer to it: colonialism. The United States of America is not normally viewed as a colonial power because our history has taught us that our involvement in foreign affairs was always as a liberating force, since we are a country founded on the principle of liberty. Is that a historical fact, or fiction? My research project into Operation Gladio revealed a troubling answer to this foundational question.
My journey began by diving into author Antony Sutton’s work concerning how Wall Street interfaced with foreign affairs in the first half of the 20th century, beginning with the Russian revolution—or the Bolshevik revolution, as some prefer to call it. There were forces at work both in New York City (centered at 120 Broadway, which was home of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, among other financial institutions,) and the City of London that constantly interfered with the inner workings of foreign governments.
The interference involved the use of ‘expeditions’ of nonprofits such as the Red Cross, and for profit entities such as banking interests. These efforts were led by an interesting group of people that I have dubbed the “International Syndicate” for reasons that will become apparent during our journey into Operation Gladio. The syndicate is made up of an array of interests: banking, industrial, religious, political, etc.
While it is convenient for people discussing the United States and world events to want to blame a particular religion or group of people, an honest investigation into history reveals a completely different story. The cast of characters do not fall neatly into any single, predefined grouping. In fact, its necessary to take a step back and look at their motivation before proceeding into the topic of Operation Gladio.
In the late 1800’s, a formalization of a common way of thinking among the elite at the time began with the creation of the Fabian Society. Keep in mind, this is a generalization of history, and you are strongly encouraged to look into each of the generalizations to ensure you agree or disagree, because each requires weeks of research which was undertaken to form the content of this overview; it is also aided by 30 years of traveling around the world to many of the places we will be exploring, along with my professional experience of working inside the bureaucracy we will be examining.
Having said that, the Fabian Society firmly believed the majority of the world’s population were incapable of managing themselves, and that as a group of informed (mostly graduates of London’s Oxford university) leaders that were more worthy of taking on that chore. They believed the world should have a unified, one government structure, and they should be in charge of it. They envisioned a grouping of territories, which they referred to as pan-America (led by the U.S.), pan-Europe (led by Germany), pan-Britain (led by the UK), and pan-Asia (led by Japan).
It’s noticeable that the country with the largest current (then and now) land mass was not mentioned in the new world order: Russia. That is because their vision resulted in Russia being divided at the Ural Mountains, with the western portion of Russia being considered pan-Europe and the eastern portion becoming pan-Asia. You will also notice the Middle East and Africa was not included in the apportionment, as many of the original Fabian group believed the citizens of these areas were not capable of managing their own affairs, and were thus in favor of them remaining ‘slave’ labor sources in perpetual servitude, useful only for the enrichment of other world communities.
While the modern day term ‘racist’ certainly described the belief system of the Fabian Society, it is actually too tame of a description; they were in favor of eugenics—selective murdering or euthanasia of any non-productive person. This is the same crowd that produced people like Margaret Sanger of Planned Parenthood to cull the black—or in their eyes, inferior—herd. They wanted only the strong members reproducing in order to maximize their investments.
The dilemma for them was how to go about reordering the world without anyone noticing. They envisioned three world wars that would facilitate the redistricting of people into controllable groupings; this had to be done without people understanding how and why to quell the foreseeable rebellion of all of us pushing back on such an evil plan. They also had choices as to which model of government to use, and effectively decided to test drive their favorites while formulating and broadcasting them through people like Adolf Hitler, Karl Marx, Mussolini and Franco, to name a few.
Sutton describes how this same group of people funded the Bolshevik revolution, including Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR). Sutton doesn’t address Mussolini, but you will notice the pattern if you read about his rise independently of Sutton’s work. Most people are unaware of FDR’s plan—called the National Recovery Act—brought about by their planned world wars that would have brought socialism to the U.S. It was completely repealed by the United States Supreme Court, and he had to settle for socialism lite in the form of The New Deal.
The aftermath of World War 2 has been celebrated as a war to end all wars, but as you now know, it did not. Since the first world war, we transitioned into the build-up for the second world war by the same people who set up the conditions for the first. They agreed to a construct that made the second world war inevitable: The creations of ‘fake,’ or made-up countries like Iran (formerly Persia), Pakistan (new), Ukraine (new) and Taiwan (formerly Formosa,) and the complete elimination of other nation states or countries, such as Kurdistan. This rearrangement of nation state borders was the set-up for NATO, the UN and World Bank structures, and it necessitated (for them) the paramilitary activities of Operation Gladio that would follow.
At its core, Operation Gladio is a generic term for the concept of Strategy of Tension. This strategy encompasses the Fabian Society concept of creating chaos or tension in order to implement control—their control of the world’s citizenry.
You might recall the television sit-com Get Smart. In a predictive programming revelation, it had a goofy spy, Maxwell Smart, that worked for the ‘good guys’ at CONTROL. The ‘bad guys,’ or criminal element worked for CHAOS. This sit-com played out the creation of chaos being thwarted by control and warned us that we had better get smart. Operation Gladio is exactly this concept played out on a global scale.
When the International Syndicate needed to implement further control of an area or population, they simply orchestrate events to create chaos. Today, we refer to it as terrorism, often taking the form of false flags. The act of terrorism or false flags allow for the implementation of whatever control mechanisms they deem are in their best interests to ensure we comply. Yes, this is evil to its core. It is also absolutely true, as will be laid out in a series of articles for you to research and examine yourself, which you absolutely should do.
Next, let’s cover a few fundamental things, including terminology that is essential to understand before we dive in. As with terms like Strategy of Tension, you can also search terms such as ‘stay behind units,’ which describe the organizing concept used to set up Operation Gladio. While tactically, the concept has been around for a very long time, Cynthia Chung’s book The Empire Where the Black Sun Never Sets brilliantly articulates the basis for its more recent use in the immediate aftermath of World War 2, and it involves many of the Fabian Society members we discussed earlier.
Many of the members of the Fabian Society were involved in colonizing Africa and taking their gold and diamonds (all resources) to enrich themselves. During the first Boer War in southern Africa, the British underestimated the tactical wartime brilliance of the people who created stay-behind unit caches of weaponry along the British attack route; thus, as the British passed by, the Boers fell in on the weapons and sandwiched the British soldiers, who were soundly defeated. Not to be outdone, the British regrouped and brought overwhelming force for the second Boer War, defeating the Boers. The British then created holding areas, or concentration camps for the women, children and elderly during the fighting, and eventually murdered them all in the first known use of concentration camps.
A young British reporter recorded the actions during the Boer campaign; his name was Winston Churchill. He would go on to institute the use of stay behind units throughout the UK. Churchill would set up the Jedburgh concept version of stay-behinds during World War 2. Interestingly enough, Adolf Hitler began instituting the exact same concept throughout all Axis territories he conquered. Apparently, there were many discussions that occurred between Hitler and Churchill using cut-outs that are outside the scope of this series, but researching the Mitford sisters would be a good starting place, if you’re interested.
Hitler used his intelligence officers, General Reinhard Gehlen and General Karl Wolff, among others to set up his stay-behind network in the Axis territories. These were referred to as ‘werewolf’ units because the members were citizens by day and killers by night. The concept included a grouping of 10 to 15 citizens, a hidden cache of weapons and a primary and secondary person in charge. Due to the secrecy involved, the command structure (Gehlen and Wolff) only knew of the two people in charge and NOT the entire unit’s personnel. This allowed for plausible deniability. The weapon caches included guns, ammo, explosives, communication devices and money, at a minimum.
All territories acquired by the Axis powers had stay-behind units set up. The thinking was that if they (the Axis powers) were to lose the territory in a future engagement, these forces would create chaos behind the new enemy lines, allowing for a better chance of regaining the territory at a future date. This network needed an extensive training capability in order to train its forces in the use of firearms, explosives and communication equipment that would be left in the caches.
SS officer Otto Skorzeny was used for this purpose, among others. Skorzeny had a special, close relationship with Hitler, and was his officer of choice for the highly secretive rescue of Mussolini toward the end of the war, among other high profile operations.
Another concept that must be understood before we dive in is the use of the word ‘anti-communist’. We’ve been trained to accept that ‘communist’ is bad and that ‘anti communist’ is good. It’s a Pavlovian response at this point that you need to reconsider.
The International Syndicate (as will be demonstrated over and over again) labeled anyone that refused to do business their way a communist. They insisted on exploiting natural resources from third-world countries with agreements that gave the host country 14% of the net profit, while the syndicate earned 86%. If you tried to renegotiate the contracts, the syndicate would label you a communist. If you continued to refuse, or nationalized the industry to regain control of your country’s resources, they’d activate the NATO paramilitary capability of Operation Gladio to overthrow the government. We will illustrate this in upcoming segments of this series.
At the same time, we’ve been conditioned to accept as good anyone ‘fighting communism’. But if it’s demonstrated—and it will be—that the people we’ve fought were not, in fact, communists, then the people doing the fighting are not ‘anti communists,’ but are the aggressors—even the proverbial bad guys.
By way of example, the United States spent millions upon millions of dollars to fund the Contras in Central America. We were told repeatedly by the Reagan/Bush administrations they were the good guys. They were not. We were also told the Sandinistas were the communists. They were not.
The Sandinistas were fighting a CIA-installed dictator because the prior government had decided that the International Syndicate’s United Fruit should not own 42% of the country’s farmable land. The land was acquired by paying off government officials to confiscate it from middle class coffee farmers, primarily. Once the Sandinistas got rid of the CIA-installed dictator, the US, on behalf of the syndicate sent in Special Forces, Gladio-trained Cuban Exiles and mercenaries to overthrow the government. This, too we will cover in detail in an upcoming segment.
This concept—the use of the word communism and anti-communist—must be stated up front, and we must examine all preconceived ideas if you are going to understand the world that has been built around us. It was constructed on false pretenses, or lies. It is not hyperbole to say our entire history is a lie.
Ask yourself this question: if you know the media is lying now … when did they start?
Operation Mockingbird did not start with the CIA. The same media existed well before the CIA, and was used for the same purpose. So when did it start? How much of our history is a lie?
It’s a question we have to know in order to understand how we move forward … in truth.
Why is this important today?
Because it is still going on around us on a daily basis.
The terror events you are witnessing remains a part of this network. Attacks are pre-planned and executed by the same networks—specifically, if you look at Ukraine, the Right Sector and Azov battalions trace their heritage to Otto Skorzeny-trained Stepan Bandera and Andriy Melnyk of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). The OUN is now a political party of Ukraine. The same is true of Taiwan, as the Taiwanese KMT political party descends from the KMT army of the drug lord Chiang Kai-shek.
Just like Ukraine, Taiwan isn’t what you think it is, at all.
Stay tuned for our next installment of Operation Gladio.
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I can’t come up with words to describe how angry I feel at having been taught lies my entire life. This truly is the Great Awakening.
Yeah!!!! Finally I have something to send to my extended normie family that may shake them up! We were a big Get Smart family! Colonel, i have no words to express my gratitude to you and your girls! Ya’ll are amazing!❤️