the "strategy of tension" courtesy of the US-NATO

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which consists in committing bombings and attributing them to others

a little blurp from wiki:

"A strategy of tension (Italian: strategia della tensione) is a way to control and manipulate public opinion using fear, propaganda, disinformation, psychological warfare, agents provocateurs, as well as false flag terrorist actions (including bombings). According to historian Daniele Ganser, "It is a tactic which consists in committing bombings and attributing them to others. By the term 'tension' one refers to emotional tension, to what creates a sentiment of fear. By the term 'strategy' one refers to what feeds the fear of the people towards one particular group"

"In August of 1990, Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti confirmed that a secret army, called Gladio, had existed in Italy throughout the Cold War period. His revelations were shocking, not simply because they admitted to something that had long been denied (including by Andreotti himself when speaking to a judicial enquiry in 1974 in his capacity as Italian Defence Minister), but because he went on to claim that a network of secret ‘stay-behind’ armies had been set up all throughout the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation countries. In short, this was an issue that involved far more than just Italy.

As details emerged into the public realm, the story became ever more incredible. In the wake of WWII, at the start of the Cold War, intelligence agencies led primarily by the US and UK set up a network of agents and secret arms dumps across Europe, a network that would remain secret but active throughout the Cold War. An unregulated heavily armed military network."

Fortunately for the US and Britian, the attack on iraq, gw 1, pushed this story out of the mainstream media.

good thing.

interesting little historical tidbit, I have found quite interesting.

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one can also watch an interestinf documentary wrt to 'the strategy of tension' via operation Gladio, born out of WW2, responsible for lots of terrorism, perpetrated throughout Europe, in particular Italy with numerous bombings and the murder of PM Aldo Morro,(NOPE it was not the Red Brigades) and Northern Ireland.

one can watch the 3 part documentary archived here:

http://www.thedossier.ukonline.co.uk/video...etsocieties.htm

Gladio.

BBC Timewatch – Gladio (1992)

Three-part series investigating the secret activities of 'stay behind' units in Europe after the Second World War. Exposes the clandestine terrorist activities of these groups in Belgium & Italy, and their involvement with the CIA.

very interesting........................................

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Puppetmasters: The Political Use of Terrorism in Italy

Book Description:

The CIA has been accused of a massive intelligence failure in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks -- the result, it is said, of a moralistic and bureaucratic approach to information-gathering. But the CIA's spies had few qualms when it came to cultivating terrorist organisations and interfering in the internal politics of Cold War Italy. Puppetmasters reveals how US intelligence services exploited the P2 masonic lodge to prop up friendly Christian Democrat-dominated governments and counter the growing political influence of the Italian Communist Party. It was a ruthless strategy involving coup plots, right wing terrorist bombings and the manipulation of the Red Brigades. And it gave Italy one of the bloodiest and most protracted periods of terrorist violence ever seen in a modern, industrialised society.

Terrorism courtesy of US and british intelligence.

One of the main means in this strategy of tension was the infiltration of extreme left-wing movements. After the leaders of the Red Brigades were put in prison, the movement became totally controlled by governmental intelligence services. Bombings with indiscriminate killings of innocent civilian were blamed on the left in order to discredit left-wing parties, create fear among the population and concomitantly support the right-wing parties. (sounds so familiar)

The most blatant sign of the collusion of the different players involved was the kidnapping and the murder of the Italian politician Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades. Also Moro tried to forge a center-left government with the communists. Except the Red Brigades had been totally infiltrated

Information available on a lovely talk henry kissinger had with Aldo Moro,, but then I digress....

A key player in the strategy of fear was the infamous freemason lodge P2 and its venerable Master Licio Gelli, who attended as an honorary guest the inaugural ceremonies of the presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan. He was also implicated in the Lockheed bribery scandal.

The main culprits in the deadly strategy were the Italian secret services. WRT Italy, in this situation. But, as the author rightly states, `they needed the endorsement of NATO and NATO's most powerful member. The US, Nato's most powerful member.

so infilatration of groups, after the leadership is gone, bombing and terrorizing the populations, all been done before, vis a vis NATO, and cooperating intelligence groups particularily the US, and Britian.

sounds so 9/11 ish.